## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year 01 01 2022 31 12 2022 **T From o**
## 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|631 Forest Road|631 Forest Road||
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||**Postcode**|**E17 4NE**|||
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|**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
**Trustee name**
**Office (if any)**
**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**
1 Ly Luft
Chair, Treasurer
2 Denise
McFarland
Trustee
3 Enio Lopes
Araujo
Trustee
01/04/22
4 Tarcisio Piucco
Trustee
17/05/22
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14|||**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (if any)**||
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**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 programs and workshops established after the July of 2021
continued into 2022 with no problems. We had a large increase in
nam-hatta programs in diferent areas of the UK. The increase was
from one program a month to a weekly program. We met new people
in diferent areas of the UK especially in Lincolnshire and were able
liaise with diferent communities sharing the same ethics and values.
This is proving to be a great outreach project, especially after the
increase in isolation people felt after the covid pandemic. We
especially received positive feedback from the older members of
society, who told us they were very grateful to receive us in their
homes and delighted in the delicious preparations of vegetarian
snacks. They were happy to have kirtan in their homes and invite
friends and neighbours for the event.
From February we started the Bhakti retreats in Skegness. We were
limited to invite the general public due to the house being of residential
use age. However these monthly programs started to prove to be of
great value for us. It gave practical experience in arranging and
organising retreats, based on 10 guests, over a 3 day period. We were
able to arrange appropriate retreats using the Vedic calendars festivals
and events. We made corresponding workshops and classes over the
long weekend or 3 day event. We also had practical experience on
how to arrange the meals ; breakfast, lunch and evening meal and
accommodation, cleaning the rooms, arranging for bedding etc. We
received helpful feedback from the guests regarding the programs,
meals, pricing etc. which we have taken into consideration and we
received donations from the guests.
There was change in the board of trustees. In April Benjamin Ball left
the board and was replaced by Enio Lopes Araujo. In May we received
a new member of the board namely Tarcisio Piucco.
Leading up to April 2023 we started to see faws in the plans to build a
retreat venue in Skegness. It was a project way over the charities
budget and means and after careful consideration the board decided it
was too much of a risk to continue with the project but instead to look
into acquiring a new property that had the facility already. In April the
decision was made to research a suitable property for retreats. In this
regard we received a promise of a substantial donation towards the
new property. In June we found a retreat centre in Wales with a farm
house two renovated cottages and a yoga barn, we agreed that this
was what we were looking for and made an ofer. That ofer was
accepted in July 2022.
We started the process of looking for a charity mortgage and we
received the confrmation of that in October 2022 with the Co-op bank.
The summary of the year was after some confusion as to how to
fnancially build the retreat centre in Skegness we made the bold
decision to look for a new property with the help of a promised
donation and guarantor.|
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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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Date
2210312023
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||**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**Charity Name**|**No(if any)**|**No(if any)**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
||**Sri Gangamata Gaudiya Math**|||||**1123514**|||
||**Receipts andpayments accounts**||||||||
||**For the period**
**from**||Period start date||**To**||Period end date||
||||1/1/22||||31/12/22||
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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|**36,875**||**-**||**-**||**36,875**||
|Bank (one off) donations|**41,577**||**-**||**-**||**41,577**||
|Paypal donations|**6,274**||**-**||**-**||**6,274**||
|Cash donations|**50,067**||**-**||**-**||**50,067**||
|Rental income|**46,999**||**-**||**-**||**46,999**||
|HMRC JRS Grant|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|Interest|**46**||**-**||**-**||**46**||
|Gift aid|**27,532**||**-**||**-**||**27,532**||
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR) _|
**209,370**||**-**||**-**||**209,370**||
||||||||||
|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**|||||||||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_**|
**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||
||||||||||
|**_Total receipts_ **|
**209,370**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**209,370**||
||||||||||
|**A3 Payments**|||||||||
|Insurance|**232**||**-**||**-**||**232**||
|Business rates|**494**||**-**||**-**||**494**||
|HMRC Paye/NIC Cumb|**1,756**||**-**||**-**||**1,756**||
|Paid staff|**73,236**||**-**||**-**||**73,236**||
|Zoom: festivals|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|Sun, Bhakti zoom: Gurudeva memories|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|advertising|**900**||**-**||**-**||**900**||
|Yoga|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|Zoom Yoga: mon, wed, fri|**3,900**||**-**||**-**||**3,900**||
|Kirtanprograms|**4,070**||**-**||**-**||**4,070**||
|Food for all / Foodposting|**11,750**||**-**||**-**||**11,750**||
|SundaySat Sang|**5,420**||**-**||**-**||**5,420**||
|Festivals|**9,456**||**-**||**-**||**9,456**||
|Nama-hatta|**2,500**||**-**||**-**||**2,500**||
|Other workshops/ Bhakti retreats|**2,700**||**-**||**-**||**2,700**||
|Bank charges|**263**||||||**263**||
|Invoices|**8,826**||||||**8,826**||
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_ **|
**125,503**||**-**||**-**||**125,503**||
||||||||||
|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases,(see table)**|||||||||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||
||**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||
|**_Sub total_ **|
**- 0**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**-**||
||||||||||
|**_Totalpayments_ **|
**125,503**||**- 0**||**- 0**||**125,503**||
||||||||||
|**_Net of receipts/(payments)_ **|
**83,867**||**-**||**-**||**83,867**||
|**A5 Transfers between funds**|**- 0**||**-**||**-**||**-**||
|**A6 Cash funds lastyear end**|**197,247**||**-**||**-**||**197,247**||
|CCXX R accounts (SS)
1|||1||||||
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|**_Cash funds thisyear end_ **|
**281,114**||**-**||**-**||**281,114**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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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**|||||**-**||**-**||
||||||**-**||**-**||
||||||**-**||**-**||
||||||**-**||**-**||
||||||**-**||**-**||
||||||**-**||**-**||
||||||||||
||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||
|**B3 Investment assets**|||||||**-**||
||||||||**-**||
||||||||**-**||
||||||||**-**||
||||||||**-**||
||||||||||
||**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**|||||||**-**||
||||||||**-**||
||||||||**-**||
||||||||**-**||
||||||||**-**||
||||||||||
|**_Cash funds thisyear end_ **|
**281,114**||**-**||**-**||**281,114**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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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**|||||**-**||**-**||
||||||**-**||**-**||
||||||**-**||**-**||
||||||**-**||**-**||
||||||**-**||**-**||
||||||**-**||**-**||
||||||||||
||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**||
|**B3 Investment assets**|||||||**-**||
||||||||**-**||
||||||||**-**||
||||||||**-**||
||||||||**-**||
||||||||||
||**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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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
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|Signed by one or two trustees on behalf
of all the trustees|Signature||Print Name||
|---|---|---|---|---|
||L. Luft||Ly Luft||
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CCXX R3 accounts (SS)
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**CC16a Last year to the nearest £ 46,632 10,535 8,315 46,068 29,438 49,291 7 22,428 - - 212,716**
||||**212,716**|**212,716**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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|||||||
|||||**- 0**||
|||||**- 0**||
|||||||
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||||**212,716**|||
|||||||
|||||||
|||||||
|||||**196**||
|||||**1,063**||
|||||**1,516**||
|||||**69,740**||
|||||**200**||
|||||**300**||
|||||**1,100**||
|||||**1,840**||
|||||**4,890**||
|||||**7,850**||
|||||**10,350**||
|||||**3,200**||
|||||**2,720**||
|||||**550**||
|||||**- 0**||
|||||**- 0**||
|||||**50,443**||
|||||**-**||
||||**155,958**|||
|||||||
|||||||
|||||||
|||||||
|||||||
|||||**- 0**||
|||||||
|||||||
||||**155,958**|||
|||||||
|||||||
||||**56,758**|||
|||||**-**||
||||**140,489**|||
|CCXX||R|
4|accounts (SS)||
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## **197,247**
**Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - -** OK **Endowment funds to nearest £ - - - - - - Current value (optional) - - - - - Current value (optional) - - - - - - - - - When due (optional)**
CCXX R5 accounts (SS)
18/05/2022
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Date of approval 22/03/2023
CCXX R6 accounts (SS)
18/05/2022
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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 2022 **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:**|22/03/23|
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|**Name:**|Satyavati Devi Vera|||
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**December 2017**
**IER**
**Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any):**
**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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**December 2017**
**IER**
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
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**December 2017**
**IER**