## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day1 Month4 Year2024 Day31 Month3 Year2025
**From**
**To**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name**
Lotus Partners Foundation
**Other names charity is known by**
|**Other names charity is known by**|**Other names charity is known by**|**Other names charity is known by**|**Other names charity is known by**|**Other names charity is known by**|**Other names charity is known by**||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Registered charity number (if any)**
**Charity's principal address**|||**Registered charity number (if any)**1174605
**Charity's principal address**
45 Chatsworth Rd
London
**Postcode**
**W5 3DD**
~~ee~~||||
|**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**|**Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**||||||
||**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **||**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**||
|1|Prof Pankaj
Sharma||||||
|2|Dr Sapna Devi
Sharma||||||
|3|Dr Aarti Rani
Sharma||||||
|4|Mr Shyam Sunder
Sharma||||||
|5|5||||||
|6|6||||||
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
**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 Independent external** Dr Isaac John St Peters Hospital, Chertsey Surrey **advisor to Trustees Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ~~==S—~~ **TAR** 1 March **2012**
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**Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Type of governing document
Constitution (CIO)
- (eg. trust deed, constitution)
Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Trustee selection methods
Appointed
- (eg. appointed by, elected by)
## **Additional governance issues (Optional information)**
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**
To undertake charitable funding and support for all aspects of human health, education, medical and scientific research and animal welfare along with supporting the elderly and vulnerable, environmental and religious rights principally in Europe and Southeast Asia.
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To further such charitable purposes as the trustees see fit from time to time in particular but not limited to the advancement of health or the saving of lives, the advancement of animal welfare, the relief of those in need by reason of ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage for the public benefit by the provision of advice, support and grants to individuals and registered, excepted and exempt charities with a particular focus on Europe and South-East Asia.
**Summary of the main activities undertaken for the public benefit in relation to these 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
Raising income remains challenging but has now allowed us to begin **Summary of the main** distributing albeit cautiously. **achievements of the charity** Thus, we are pleased to report that we have distributed 11% of our funds **during the year** over this year, and 18% of our received income for this year. Administration costs at 1% remain well below our target of 20%. Funds have been distributed in accordance with the objectives of the charities particularly focusing on smaller institutions where a relatively small amount of money can have a big impact. Our website LotusPartnersFoundation.org contains the institutions to whom money was distributed and a non-exhaustive list is below:
- Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge
- • Plan International • Bhaktivedanta Manor Temple • Food For Life Vrindavan • Royal College of Physicians (for international work) • Sher Jung Foundation
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## **Section E Financial review**
**Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves**
Funds will continue to be distributed in the new financial year if income is sufficient to fund our commitments to charitable organisations in accordance with our charity objectives.
**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)**
**Full name(s)** Professor Pankaj Sharma
**Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Chair **etc)**
**Date** 18.08.25
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## **LOTUS PARTNERS FOUNDATION**
## **STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES**
## **YEAR ENDED 31 March 2025**
||**Unrestricted**|**Restricted**|**2024 Total**|**2025 Total**|
|---|---|---|---|---|
||**£**|**£**|**£**|**£**|
|**Incoming Resources**|||||
|Grants, Donations, Sales etc.|**15000**|**-**|**7019**|**15000**|
|Bank Interest|**0**|**-**|**0**|**0**|
|**Total Incoming Resources**|**15000**|**-**|**7019**|**15000**|
|**Direct Charitable Expenditure**|||||
|Core Work|**377**|**-**|**0**|**377**|
|**Other Expenditure**|||||
|Fundraising, Publicity, Admin|**528**|**-**|**528**|**0**|
|**Total Resources Expended**|**3111**|**-**|**8460**|**3111**|
|Net Incoming/(Outgoing)|**11889**|**-**|**(1441)**|**11889**|
|Resources|||||
|**Funds as at 1 April 2024**|**13935**|**0**|||
|**Funds as at 31 March 2025**|**25824**|**0**|||
**Prof. Pankaj Sharma - Chairman**
**Signed on behalf of the Board of Trustees**
**18.8.25**
## **LOTUS PARTNERS FOUNDATION**
## **BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 MARCH 2025**
||**2024**|**2025**|
|---|---|---|
||**£**|**£**|
|**Fixed Assets**|0|0|
|**Current Assets**|||
|Debtors|0|0|
|Cash at Bank|13935|25824|
|TOTAL|**13935**|**25824**|
|**Creditors – Amounts falling due within**|0|0|
|**one year**|||
|**Net Current Assets**|**13935**|**25824**|
|**Funds**|||
|Unrestricted Funds|13935|25824|
|Restricted Funds|0|0|
||**13935**|**25824**|
**Prof. Pankaj Sharma - Chairman Signed on behalf of the Board of Trustees**
**18.8.25**
## **LOTUS PARTNERS FOUNDATION**
## **BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31 MARCH 2025**
## **1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES**
## **General**
The Financial Statements have been prepared under the Historical Cost Convention and in accordance with the applicable accounting standards and the charities SORP (Statement of Recommended Practice: ‘Accounting by Charities’).
## **2. Summary of Net Assets by Funds.**
|Net Current Assets|Unrestricted Funds
Restricted Funds
Total
£25824
£0
£25824|
|---|---|
**Additional Notes:**
**none**