## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
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## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Sri Gangamata Gaudiya Math
**Other names charity is known by** The Bhakti Yoga Centre **Registered charity number (if any)** 1123514
## **Charity's principal address** 631 Forest Road
London **Postcode E17 4NE**
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
**Dates acted if not for Name of person (or body) entitled Trustee name Office (if any) whole year to appoint trustee (if any)** 1 Ly Luft Chair, Treasurer Trustee 2[Denise ] McFarland
- 3 Benjamin Ball Trustee
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16 17 18 19 20 **Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)**
**Name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser Name Address**
**Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)**
## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document Constitution adopted 1 January 2008 (eg. trust deed, constitution) Amended 1 September 2010 Amended 10 June 2020 How the charity is constituted Trust
(eg. trust, association, company) Trustee selection methods Trustees are appointed and reappointed at the General Meeting
(eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
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You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant, about:
- policies and procedures adopted for the induction and training of trustees;
- the charity’s organisational structure and any wider network with which the charity works;
- relationship with any related parties;
- trustees’ consideration of major risks and the system and procedures to manage them.
## **Section C Objectives and activities**
**Summary of the objects of the charity set out in its governing document**
The provision of a spiritual and cultural community centre, in order to advance and improve community involvement (different age groups and cultural backgrounds ect), with the aims of promoting harmony and respect based on a spiritual understanding and realising one’s eternal relationship with God. To promote a positive consciousness through healthy living workshops and educational courses on Vedic philosophy.
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We are a spiritual, cultural community centre with weekly programs covering two main themes: Education and Healthy Living Education: - educative and informative workshops on ancient Vedic wisdom - music workshops - art workshops - children workshop Healthy Living: - cooking courses **Summary of the main activities** - food distribution **undertaken for the public** - **benefit in relation to these** yoga courses - meditation **objects (include within this section the statutory declaration that trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit)**
**Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include further statements, where relevant, about:
- policy on grantmaking;
- policy programme related investment;
- contribution made by volunteers.
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Section D Achievements and performance
|**Summary of the main**
**achievements of the charity**
**during the year**|The year began for the charity overcast by a dark cloud of
uncertainty. The pandemic was still a great threat to a return to
normal and a mood of depression was felt in the community
We continued throughout the year to stay positive adapting to
the diferent situations and by the end of the year a new energy
was coming . covid restrictions had lessened and staf were able
to come back to work we ended the year feeling optimistic for
2022
In January 2021 we continued with the zoom programs. Initially
they had a positive appeal but as January continued the
attendance dropped considerably. They were subsequently
cancelled at the end of January with only the yoga online zoom
class remaining .
With the lockdown and the Covid restrictions there was no
activity for 2 months February and March
From April we established a new weekly event Harinam and
book & food distribution. This was a popular outdoor event
connecting with new people and helping to bring a more positive
consciousness to the community.
In July most of the restrictions were lifted and we re-opened the
centre. We chose an auspicious day “Guru Purnima “ and
celebrated by inviting the community together for kirtan and
Prasad.
From the July opening we re-introduced weekly programs,
Sunday Sat sang, Thursday yoga, nama-hatta and festivals
according to the vaisnava calendar.
At the end of September the regular weekly outdoor event was
stopped but the food distribution continued on Saturdays.
In the beginning of October we began a weekly indoor kirtan
event attracting new people.
From October the weekly programs were more established and a
new infux of people started to come especially for bigger
events.
We were able to start to re-employ our workers from the end of
July and by October everyone was completely of furlough.
Rakesh resigned from the board of trustees in July 2021.
We continued with the retreat project in Skegness. From March
we managed the maintenance and planting on the land. In
October we put in for planning for a barn/reception, 10 Eco
cottages, a large greenhouse and parking. Full planning
permission was granted on December the 16th subject to the
conditions outlined in the planning consent.
As a summary for the year, we got of to a rocky start but as the
year continued and we were able to be fexible enough to keep
an energy going, things improved greatly and by the end of the
year, programs were re-established and we received the good
news that our planning application for the retreat centre was
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## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
**Details of any funds materially in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
You **may choose** to include additional information, where relevant about:
- the charity’s principal sources of funds (including any fundraising);
- how expenditure has supported the key objectives of the charity;
- investment policy and objectives including any ethical investment policy adopted.
## **Section F Other optional information**
## **Section G Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)** L. Luft **Full name(s)** Ly Luft
**Position (eg Secretary,** Chair **Chair, etc)**
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||**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**No(if any)**|**No(if any)**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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||**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||||||
||**For the period**
**from**||Period start date||**To**||Period end date||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||||
||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**||**Total funds**||
||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**||
|**A1 Receipts**|||||||||
|Membership (regular)donations|**46,632**||**-**||**-**||**46,632**||
|Bank(one off)donations|**10,535**||**-**||**-**||**10,535**||
|Paypal donations|**8,315**||**-**||**-**||**8,315**||
|Cash donations|**46,068**||**-**||**-**||**46,068**||
|Rental income|**29,438**||**-**||**-**||**29,438**||
|HMRC JRS Grant|**49,291**||**-**||**-**||**49,291**||
|Interest|**7**||**-**||**-**||**7**||
|Gift aid|**22,428**||**-**||**-**||**22,428**||
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR) _|
**212,716**||**-**||**-**||**212,716**||
||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||
|**_Sub total _**|
**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||
||||||||||
|**_Total receipts_ **|
**212,716**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**212,716**||
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|**A3 Payments**|||||||||
|Insurance|**196**||**-**||**-**||**196**||
|Business rates|**1,063**||**-**||**-**||**1,063**||
|HMRC Paye/NIC Cumb|**1,516**||**-**||**-**||**1,516**||
|Paid staff|**69,740**||**-**||**-**||**69,740**||
|Zoom: festivals|**200**||**-**||**-**||**200**||
|Sun,Bhakti zoom: Gurudeva memories|**300**||**-**||**-**||**300**||
|advertising|**1,100**||**-**||**-**||**1,100**||
|Yoga|**1,840**||**-**||**-**||**1,840**||
|Zoom Yoga: mon,wed,fri|**4,890**||**-**||**-**||**4,890**||
|Kirtanprograms|**7,850**||**-**||**-**||**7,850**||
|Food for all / Foodposting|**10,350**||**-**||**-**||**10,350**||
|SundaySat Sang|**3,200**||**-**||**-**||**3,200**||
|Festivals|**2,720**||**-**||**-**||**2,720**||
|Nama-hatta|**550**||**-**||**-**||**550**||
|Other workshops|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|Jas Roofng|**10,000**||**-**||**-**||**10,000**||
|Book cabin|**6,073**||**-**||**-**||**6,073**||
|PlanningApplication,Architect fee|**14,528**||**-**||**-**||**14,528**||
|PlanningApplication fee|**3,262**||**-**||**-**||**3,262**||
|PlanningFee|**8,100**||**-**||**-**||**8,100**||
|Transport and food risk assessment|**1,980**||**-**||**-**||**1,980**||
|Book order|**6,500**||**-**||**-**||**6,500**||
|Extras|**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_ **|
**155,958**||**-**||**-**||**155,958**||
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases,(see table)**|||||||||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_ **|
**-0**||**-0**||**-0**||**-**||
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|**_Totalpayments_ **|
**155,958**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**155,958**||
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|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **|
**56,758**||**-**||**-**||**56,758**||
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**A6 Cash funds lastyear end**|**140,489**||**-**||**-**||**140,489**||
|**_Cash funds thisyear end_ **|
**197,247**||**-**||**-**||**197,247**||
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|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|||||||||
|**Categories**|**Details**||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||
||||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||
|**B1 Cash funds**|||||**-**||**-**||
||||||**-**||**-**||
||||||**-**||**-**||
||**_Total cash funds_**||||**-**||**-**||
||(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))||||Agreement Error||||
||||||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted funds**||
||**Details**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||
|**B2 Other monetary assets**|||||**-**||**-**||
||||||**-**||**-**||
||||||**-**||**-**||
||||||**-**||**-**||
||||||**-**||**-**||
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||
|**B3 Investment assets**|||||||**-**||
||||||||**-**||
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||
|**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**|||||||**-**||
||||||||**-**||
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||**Details**||||**Fund to which**
**liability relates**||**Amount due**
**(optional)**||
|**B5 Liabilities**|||||||**-**||
||||||||**-**||
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|Signed by one or two trustees on behalf
of all the trustees|Signature||||Print Name||||
||L. Luft||||LyLuft||||
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## **CC16a**
**Last year to the nearest £ 41,768 29,670 11,285 37,748 1,125 23,742 1,334 54 20,110 - - 166,836 - 0 - 0 166,836 196 162 3,075 46,377 800 900 1,050 2,600 - 1,840 4,100 2,710 6,895 - 1,230 - - - - - - 2,227 15,100 - 89,263 - 0**
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**89,263 77,572 - 62,917 140,489 Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - -** OK **Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - - - - Current value (optional) - - - - - Current value (optional) - - - - - - - - - When due (optional)**
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Date of approval 01/07/2022
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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
**Report to the trustees/** Charity Name **members of** Sri Gangamata Gaudiya Math
**On accounts for the year** 31st December 2021 **Charity no** 1123514 **ended (if any)**
**Set out on pages** Receipts and Payments accounts
(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)
- **Respective** The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts.
- **responsibilities of** The charity’s trustees consider that an audit is not required for this year
- **trustees and examiner** under section 144 of the Charities Act 2011 (the Charities Act) and that an independent examination is needed. It is my responsibility to: • examine the accounts under section 145 of the Charities Act, • to follow the procedures laid down in the general Directions given by the Charity Commission (under section 145(5)(b) of the Charities Act, and
- • to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.
- **Basis of independent** My examination was carried out in accordance with general Directions given **examiner’s statement** by the Charity Commission. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts, and seeking explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently no opinion is given as to whether the accounts present a ‘true and fair’ view and the report is limited to those matters set out in the statement below.
- **Independent** In connection with my examination, no material matters have come to my
- **examiner's statement** attention (other than that disclosed below *) which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act or
- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
* _Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply._
|**Signed:**|S Vera|**Date:**|01/07/2022|
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|**Name:**|Satyavati Devi Vera|||
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**Address:**
**Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
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**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
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