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2023-04-01-accounts

Trustees' Annual Report for the period

Period start date Period start date Period end date Period end date
Day Month Year Day Month Year
**From ** 1st April 2022 To **31st ** March 2023

Section A Reference and administration details

Charity name Mohanji Foundation UK

Other names charity is known by Mohanji Foundation

Registered charity number (if any) 1177264 Charity's principal address 28 Beaulieu Drive Pinner Middlesex, UK Postcode HA5 1NG

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

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14		 Trustee name Office (if any) Dates acted if not for whole
**year **		 Name of person (or body) entitled
to appoint trustee (ifany)
Mohan Pathirisseri Founder Whole Year to 31/03/2023 Mohanji Foundation UK Board
VijayRamanaidoo Chair Whole Year to 31/03/2023 Mohanji Foundation UK Board
Subhasree
Thottungal		 Vice Chair Whole Year to 31/03/2023 Mohanji Foundation UK Board
Hemant Panda Treasurer Whole Year to 31/03/2023 Mohanji Foundation UK Board
Vigneshwaran
Swaminathan		 Assistant
Treasurer		 Whole Year to 31/03/2023 Mohanji Foundation UK Board
Shyama
Jeyaseelan		 Secretary Whole Year to 31/03/2023 Mohanji Foundation UK Board
Sudha Thakur Assistant
Secretary		 Whole Year to 31/03/2023 Mohanji Foundation UK Board
Christopher
Greenwood		 Trustee 18/11/2022 to 31/03/2023 Mohanji Foundation UK Board
Jack Barrat Trustee 18/11/2022 to 31/03/2023 Mohanji Foundation UK Board

Names of the trustees for the charity, if any, (for example, any custodian trustees)

Name Dates acted if not for whole year

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Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)

Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information) 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

Charitable Incorporated Organisation

Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) CIO Foundation model How the charity is constituted

Mohanji Foundation UK Board of Trustees Trustee selection methods

(eg. appointed by, elected by)

Additional governance issues (Optional information)

Governance issues You may choose to include The Foundation has bought a 14-acre farmhouse property in additional information, where Aberdeenshire, Scotland in Jan 2023. This property will be the relevant, about: headquarters of the charity going forward. As the charity is now operating • policies and procedures in Scotland the charity will look to register with the charity commission of policies and procedures Scotland.

In addition to this, as the charity has a presence in Scotland, an application for registration with the Scottish charity commission will be in process.

Relationships

We are working more Collaboratively with other Mohanji Foundations in the world such as Serbia, India and Slovenia. as well as engaging with the work of other Mohanji platforms which are consistent with the objectives of Mohanji Foundation UK along with ACT Foundation in the UK for fundraising efforts which are being conducted jointly. Net income generated is being shared.

Risks

The Foundation is fully covered for existing activities both within and outside the MCB by obtaining appropriate insurance with Zurich insurance company. The Foundation has also set up a limited company called MCB Enterprises Ltd to minimise exposure to risk, in particular for non-primary

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purpose trading activities of the Mohanji Centre of Benevolence. In light of the purchase of a property in Scotland, the health and safety policy has been updated.

Financial risks: The charity has obtained loans of £538,000 in order to purchase the Mohanji Centre of Benevolence but has mitigated the financial risk by raising these loans from supporters on an interest free basis over terms from 18 months to 10 years.

Section C Objectives and activities

To advance the Sanatana Dharma Universal religion for the benefit of the public in accordance with the teachings of Brahmarishi Mohanji by: a) conducting services (satsang) that promote physical and mental wellbeing, in particular through the practice of meditation, yoga and breathing techniques, b) conducting classes on meditation, yoga and breathing techniques, c) providing classes, programs, seminars, retreats, workshops, books, videos and other educational materials, Summary of the objects of the d) establishing and maintaining ashrams, temples, prayer halls, and charity set out in its meditation halls, governing document e) co-operating with government bodies, non-governmental organisations and other registered charities for the furtherance of the charity’s objects, f) soliciting, collecting, receiving acquiring, holding and investing funds and property received by gift, donation, contribution or bequest for the furtherance of the charity’s objects, g) applying the proceeds, income and rents derived from any property of the charity for the furtherance of the charity’s objects, i) doing all such things as may be necessary or conducive to further the objects of the charity, as permitted by the laws of England & Wales. SUMMARY OF ACTIVITIES FOR MOHANJI FOUNDATION UK FROM APRIL 2022 to MARCH 2023 CONDUCTED FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT Summary of the main Public benefit statement activities undertaken for the All of the following programmes were conducted to advance the public benefit in relation to objectives of the charity. They all fit the public benefit criteria, being these objects (include within charitable in nature, open to the general public and the vast majority of this section the statutory programmes conducted free of cost (except for those with a significant declaration that trustees have cost element such as accommodation, hall hire transport). Any had regard to the guidance programmes with a cost were either discounted or offered free of cost issued by the Charity depending on the circumstances so that cost is not a barrier to Commission on public attendance. These programmes are open to all with no man-made benefit) barriers of nationality, religion, caste, colour or sexual orientation. Online activities April 2022 to March 2023 The on-line activities included: - Weekly meditation sessions

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Total programmes on Zoom: 277 (participation: 2,000 people attendance) Total programmes on Facebook 350 (21,000 views) Total programmes on insight timer: 49 (4,800 participants)

Mai Tri Method

Blogs, books and publications

Blogs: - Various testimonials written and proofread by UK testimonials team for publishing on public forums and social media

Books: Co-ordinate write ups, proofread and support with printing of new publications: Guru Leela series and coffee table books such as Truth and the Jagath Mitra books.

Books/blogs Translation - Ongoing translation of Mohanji books and blogs into other languages such as Tamil, Singhalese, Oria, Chinese and Marathi

Facebook translation: Ongoing translation of Facebook pages into Tamil. Marathi, Oria, Punjabi and Sinhalese.

Physical in person meditation sessions: The team restarted in person meditation sessions in Rayners Lane, Reading and Basingstoke

Programmes/events during Mohanji’s visit in March 2022

Programmes/events during Mohanji’s visit in June 2022

Mind Body and Spirit festival

A stall was bought over 4 days of the mind bod and spirit festival in Earls Court. The main activities at the stall were:

Setting up of Mohanji Centre of Benevolence (MCB): Our long-term aim of buying a property to serve as the headquarters of Mohanji Foundation and meet our key charitable objectives was realised in Feb 2023. The Trustees created a specification, road map and set up teams for property search and fundraising. In March 2022, the murtis (idols) of Shirdi Baba, Lord Ganesh and Lord Dattatreya were commissioned from Jaipur in March 2022.

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In November 2022, after a long and exhaustive search across the UK, an offer was accepted on a property called Smallburn in Cairnie, Huntly, Aberdeenshire, AB54 4UE. This was a 14-acre farm and met the specifications that we had set for our MCB.

Fundraising activities

Such as Diwali dinner and dance in October 2022, selling at food stalls, Xmas wrapping service. Auction of Mohanji clothes and personal effect articles

Additional details of objectives and activities (Optional information)

Policy on grant making.

We are work collaboratively with other Mohanji Foundations in the world including the Mohanji International Foundation such as Serbia, India and Slovenia and will look to support their activities and MCB development through any grant applications that they may make using our funding application form.

You may choose to include further statements, where relevant, about:

Contribution made by volunteers

Funds for the MCB purchase and refurbishment were raised by donations from volunteers along with interest free loans of various lengths from 18 months to 10 years.

All of the activities have been undertaken by dedicated unpaid volunteers. The number of volunteers has increased over the reporting period and the scope of activities has also increased, in particular Mai-Tri practitioners and yoga activities.

We have three permanent full-time volunteers based at the Mohanji Centre of Benevolence in Scotland to look after the property, perform the daily worship and to welcome volunteers. We are looking to increase the number of full-time residents at the property in due course as we expand our activities.

Section D Achievements and performance

Mohanji Centre of Benevolence (MCB):

Summary of the main Our long-term aim of buying a property to serve as the headquarters of achievements of the charity Mohanji Foundation and meet our key charitable objectives was realised during the year in Feb 2023. The Trustees created a specification, road map and set up teams for property search and fundraising. In March 2022, the murtis (idols) of Shirdi Baba, Lord Ganesh and Lord Dattatreya were commissioned from Jaipur in March 2022.

In November 2022, after a long and exhaustive search across the UK, an offer was accepted on a property called Smallburn in Cairnie, Huntly, Aberdeenshire, AB54 4UE. This was a 14-acre farm and met the specifications that we had set for our MCB.

Funds were raised by donations along with interest free loans of various lengths from 18 months to 10 years. The whole purchase price of the property along with the refurbishment of the house and barns was funded by interest free loans and donations from supporters.

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Section D Achievements and performance

Property details
• Location: Mainland Scotland in Aberdeenshire
• Distance from City/airport: less than 1 hour from Aberdeen
• Budget: £620K
• Main property: 6 bedrooms beds, Annexe
• Outbuildings: 4 huge outbuildings suitable for temple,
accommodation, reception, dining hall, satsang hall
• Parking facilities: Greater than 10
• Woodland on site
• Water body on site: Lake, stream
• Utilities available: electrics/telephone
• Size: 14 acres
• Surroundings: peaceful and tranquil. The property completion
happened in early Feb 2023. The charity immediately started
work on the following:
• Refurbishing an existing barn into a temple and meditation
space
• Clearing out the barns
• Creating a kitchen space in one of the barns
• Refurbishment of the main house (painting and decorating)
• Refurnishing the house
• Grounds work including cleaning, gardening and erecting
signs,
• removal of electric fence which prevented deer from grazing.
• Creating a glass summer house for lord Dattatreya (lord of
nature) surrounded by nature.
Online activities April 2022 to March 2023
The on-line activities included:
- Weekly meditation sessions
- Weekly online Kriya sessions
- Blog reading
- Testimonial reading
- Veda chanting and breathing exercises
- Weekly group satsang/discussion
- Podcast sessions
- Special chanting events
- Special fundraising events
- Online Mai-Tri sessions

Total programmes on Zoom: 277 (participation: 2,000 people attendance) Total programmes on Facebook 350 (21,000 views) Total programmes on insight timer: 49 (4,800 participants)

Mai Tri Method

Blogs, books and publications

Blogs: - Various testimonials written and proofread by UK testimonials team for publishing on public forums and social media

Books: Collaborating with Gurulight team to co-ordinate write ups, proofread and support with printing of new publications: Guru Leela series and coffee table books such as Truth and the Jagath Mitra books.

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Section D Achievements and performance

blogs into other languages such as Tamil, Singhalese, Oria, Chinese and
Marathi
Facebook translation: Ongoing translation of Facebook pages into
Tamil. Marathi, Oria, Punjabi and Sinhalese.
Physical in person meditation sessions:The team restarted in person
meditation sessions in more locations following the lifting of covid
restrictions. In this year the team conducted 48 sessions in the following
locations, Rayners Lane, Reading and Basingstoke
Programmes/events during Mohanji’s visit in March 2022
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Arranged a one-day programme at the Copthorne Tara Hotel
in Central London. This was very successful with about 100
participants, which was the capacity of the hall.
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Fruit Tree planation event in Woodley together with the Local
Councilor Laura Bloomberg and the local mayor. This was
highlighted in the local press.
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Placed the order for the idols in preparation for the Mohanji
Centre of Benevolence
Programmes/events during Mohanji’s visit in June 2022
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Organised a retreat programme at the Aubrey Park Hotel in
Hemel Hempstead with about 100 participants.
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Nehru centre programme/satsang hosted by High
Commission of India
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Mahaveer Award celebration and presentation to Mohanji by
the Indian Vegetarian society for promotion of Ahimsa (non-
violence)
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Team building event in Devon with 30 attendees. Strategic
direction for Mohanji Centre of Benevolence and a pledge to
have an MCB within a year was made by the group.
Programmes during Devi Mohanj visit in Oct 2022
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Diwali dinner and dance: A very well attended fundraising
dinner and dance event was held at Bayliss House Hotel in
Slough with about 120 attendees. This was held in conjunction
with ACT Foundation UK. This was an opportunity to
showcase the work of Mohanji Foundation UK, in particular
the MCB project and the work of ACT Foundation UK
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One day programme with about 35 attendees with Conscious
dancing, meditation, yoga and satsang held in Northwood
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Mai Tri sessions held for a number of beneficiaries
Celebration of major festivals/events
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Mohanji’s birthday
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Dattatreya Jayanti
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Krishna Janmashtami
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Diwali
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India Day
Visibity and outreach
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Mind Body and Spirit festivalA stall was bought over 4 days of
the mind bod and spirit festival in Earls Court. The main activities
at the stall were:
oSpreading awareness of Mohanji Foundation UK
oSales of books and merchandise
oMai Tri method sessions for paying customers generating

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Section D Achievements and performance

Social media

Fundraising activities

Section E Financial review

The charity seeks to operate at all times with a positive balance of funds Brief statement of the and works within its means to achieve and maintain this. Currently the charity’s policy on reserves charity is holding some funds for the Mohanji Centre of Benevolence in India and in Slovenia when these are needed. In addition, the Foundation is starting a major fundraising drive to pay back loans and meet the costs of the running of the Mohanji Centre of Benevolence in Scotland The charity as of 31/03/2023 has received interest free loans from Details of any funds materially volunteers/supporters of £538,000 over terms ranging from 18 months to in deficit 10 years in order to procure the Mohanji Centre of Benevolence.

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Further financial review details (Optional information)

You may choose to include additional information, where relevant about:

Costs

The on-line programmes were still predominant as in person programmes as reduced as we were coming out of the covid period. We therefore had reduced costs for renting of spaces but increased costs for Zoom accounts.

Income

The principal source of funds were:

Expenditure supporting the key objectives. The main objective of Mohanji Foundation UK is to advance the Sanatana dharma universal religion in accordance with the teachings of Mohanji. The core principle being Ahimsa (non-violence). All the expenditure of the charity is related to facilitating and meeting this objective. The Mohanji Centre of Benevolence has been a key objective to act as the headquarters of the foundation and be a living demonstration of the teachings. It provides a space for worship, meditation, yoga. Walks in nature, offering people the opportunity to connect with nature and the beings of nature and thus appreciating the interconnectivity and interdependence of life on earth and to allow people the space and silent environment to connect with their inner selves. The expenditure for the activities outside the MCB, retreats, programmes, meditations, satsangs both on line and in person all relate to furthering the objectives of the charity.

Investment policy

Currently the charity has only the MCB property as it’s headquarters along with the assets in the property. Apart from that there are currently no other investments. However, when the charity is in a position to invest, the policy for investments will be based on ethical investments which is very much in keeping with the objectives of the charity.

Section F Other optional information

The charity is looking to support the set up of physical ‘ashram’ locations both in the UK and abroad so support the objectives of the foundation. This includes supporting the set up of land/building in India and Slovenia initially as well as supporting the Mohanji centre of benevolence in the UK. Our main priority now is to continue to develop the MCB in Scotland and to have a financial strategy to fundraise and generate income to pay back the interest free loans.

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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) Vijay Anand Ramanaidoo Position (eg Secretary, Chair, Chair etc) Date 22/01/2024

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Mohanji Foundation No (if any) Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period Period start date Period end date To from 4/2/2022 3/31/2023

Section A Receipts and payments
A1 Receipts
Donations
35,929
Standingorder donations for MCB
4,737
Donations for Idol
-
Gift Aid from donations
38,490
sum up
4,773
Events
38,756
Merchandise & others
1,402
Loans
-
124,087
Land
-
-
Sub total -
Total receipts 124,087
A3 Payments
Publicity/Fundraisingcosts
2,025
Events
10,929
Merchandise
8,815
Hall Hire
17,664
Travel
5,432
Legal
5,400
Idols
-
MCB construction & others
60,587
others
6,950
Sub total 117,802
Land
-
Sub total -
Total payments 117,802
Net of receipts/(payments) 6,285
A5 Transfers between funds
-
A6 Cash funds last year end
2,605
Cash funds this year end 8,890
Unrestricted
funds
to the nearest £
Sub total(Gross income for AR)
A2 Asset and investment sales,
(see table).
A4 Asset and investment
purchases, (see table)		 to the nearest £
Restricted
funds		 to the nearest £
Endowment
funds		 Total funds
to the nearest £		 Last year
to the nearest £
90,617
-
23,211
-
-
-
-
538,000
651,828		 -
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 126,546
4,737
23,211
38,490
4,773
38,756
1,402
538,000
775,915		 -
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 -
-
-		 -
-
-
-
-
651,828 - 775,915 -
-
-
-
-
-
-
32,644
-
-
32,644		 -
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-		 2,025
10,929
8,815
17,664
5,432
5,400
32,644
60,587
6,950
150,446		 -
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
619,184
-
619,184		 -
-
-		 619,184
-
619,184
-
651,828 - 769,630 -
-
-
16,916
16,916		 -
-
-
-		 6,285
-
19,521
25,806		 -
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-

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

Categories
B1 Cash funds
B2 Other monetary assets
B3 Investment assets
B5 Liabilities
B4 Assets retained for the
charity’s own use		 Details
Details
Details
Details
Land and Property
Details
Loans
Total cash funds
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))		 to nearest £
-
-
8,890
8,890
OK
to nearest £
-
-
-
-
-
-
Restricted
Restricted funds
Unrestricted
funds
Unrestricted
funds
Fund to which
asset belongs
Fund to which
asset belongs
Fund to which
liability relates		 to nearest £
-
-
16,916
16,916
OK
to nearest £
-
-
-
-
-
-
Cost (optional)
-
-
-
-
-
Cost (optional)
619,184
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
538,000
-
-
-
-
Restricted
funds
Restricted
funds
Amount due
(optional)		 to nearest £
Endowment
funds
-
-
-
-
OK
to nearest £
Endowment
funds
-
-
-
-
-
-
Current value
(optional)
-
-
-
-
-
Current value
(optional)
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
When due
(optional)
Loans Restricted funds 538,000
-
-
-
-

Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees

Signature Print Name
V.Swaminathan
Hemant Panda		 Date of
approval
V.Swaminathan 1/24/2024
Hemant Panda 1/26/2024

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