## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**
**From: 01/01/2024 To: 31/12/2024 Charity name: Dhyan Foundation UK Charity registration number: 1190502**
## **Objectives and Activities**
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|Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|**_To promote good health for the public benefit_**
**_by teaching the yogic techniques of Sanatan_**
**_Kriya Yoga for physical, mental, and spiritual_**
**_health of the community in UK._**
**_To relieve the suffering of animals in the UK_**
**_and other parts of the world as the Trustees_**
**_decide._**|
|Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17 and
1.19|**_1. The foundation organises weekly_**
**_Sanatan kriya yoga classes to educate_**
**_people across the UK._**
**_2. We also arrange weekly Satsang on_**
**_Sunday afternoons which begins with a_**
**_guided meditation and Q&A_**
**_afterwards._**
**_3. Weekly in person classes at Kings_**
**_College London and at Fitzrovia Centre_**
**_London_**
**_4. Public events in London – displaying_**
**_books, leaflets and our classes._**
**_Grants are made to organisations that further_**
**_support the objectives of the foundation. All_**
**_our charitable activities are volunteer based,_**
**_thus ensuring our overheads are minimised._**|
|Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|**_The trustees confirm they have regard to the_**
**_guidance issued by the charity commissions on_**
**_the public benefit._**|
**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
SORP reference
|Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|**_We have a draft grant making policy document_**
**_which outlines our approach for risk,_**
**_monitoring and details of our grant decision_**
**_making policy. Periodically we issue grants._**
**_The grant decision making policy is available on_**
**_our website._**|
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|Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38||
|Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|**_We rely 100% on our well-wishers, volunteers,_**
**_supporters, and donors to achieve our_**
**_charitable objects_. **|
|Other|||
## **Achievements and Performance**
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|Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**_We continue to run regular Online Zoom classes_**
**_and broaden our reach across the whole of the_**
**_UK._**
**_In addition, we ran in-person classes at Kings_**
**_College London and at the Fitzrovia Community_**
**_Centre._**
**_In the public realm we also had a public stall at_**
**_the Lord mayors Diwali 2024 event in Trafalgar_**
**_Square._**
**_We provided guided meditation and talk on the_**
**_benefits of Yoga to the committee members of_**
**_the National Hindu Students Forum (NHSF) in_**
**_Borehamwood._**
**_The regular online classes and in-person classes_**
**_have provided great mental and physical_**
**_support to all attendees of our Sanatan Kriya_**
**_classes during an unprecedented time of_**
**_uncertainty._**
**_In addition, we have started supporting the_**
**_feeding and well-being of UK’s only Vedic_**
**_Brahman cows at Yogashram Wales and have_**
**_issued a grant for local charity in Wales who_**
**_are rehabilitating stray dogs._**|
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41||
|---|---|---|
|Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41||
|Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41||
|Other|||
## **Financial Review**
|**Financial Review**|||
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|Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of theperiod|Para 1.21|**_For the financial period Jan 2024 – December_**
**_2024, our total income was £65686 and total_**
**_expenditure £64479._**|
|Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are held|Para 1.22|**_N/A_**|
|Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**_£1516_**|
|Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22||
|Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24||
|Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23||
**Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|**_Donations from volunteers, supporters, and_**
**_donors. We also rely on Gift Aid repayment_**
**_claims._**|
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|Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46||
|A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46||
|Other|||
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
|Description of charity’s
trusts:|||
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|Type of governing document
(trust deed, royal charter)|Para 1.25|**c****_onstitution_**|
|How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association, CIO)|Para 1.25|**_charitable incorporated organisation_**|
|Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25||
## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:
|Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51||
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|The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51||
|Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51||
|Other|||
## **Reference and Administrative details**
|Charityname|**_Dhyan Foundation UK_**|
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|Other name the charityuses||
|Registered charitynumber|**_1190502_**|
|Charity’s principal address|**_Yogashram, Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, SA20 0EN_**
**_(addressed changed from Sept 2024)_**|
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## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved
**Director name**
Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity
**Trustee name Dates acted if not for whole year**
## **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others**
Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets
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## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
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## **Exemptions from disclosure**
Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details
## **Other optional information**
## **Declarations**
## **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.**
**Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
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Signature(s)
Vaibhav Kalra
Full name(s) Suresh Kumar
Position (eg Chair Treasurer
Secretary, Chair, etc)
Date
14 October 2025
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**1190502**
**Dhyan Foundation UK**
## **Receipts and payments accounts**
**CC16a**
|**For the period**
**from**|01/01/2024|**To**|31/12/2024|
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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**-**|
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|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**|||
|
Donations|**57,190**||**-**||**-**||**57,190**||**-**|
|Gift Aid Claims|**8,496**||**-**||**-**||**8,496**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_|**65,686**||**-**||**-**||**65,686**||**-**|
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|**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**||||||||||
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|**_Sub total_**|**-**|||||||||
|**_Total receipts_**
**A3 Payments**||||||||||
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Grants
Operating Expense (General expense, operat
Stripe charges
Bank charges|**57,843**|||||||||
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|**_Sub total_ **|**64,479**|||||||||
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||||
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|**_Sub total_ **|**-**|||||||||
|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||||
||**1,207**||||||||**-**|
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||**309**||||||||**-**|
||**1,516**||||||||**-**|
## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
**Categories**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B2 Other monetary assets**|1
Cash funds held
**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments account(s))|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**1,516**
**-**
**-**
**1,516**
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**|**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**|14/10/2025
**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
OK
**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**|
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**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**|||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
|**B3 Investment assets**|||||||**-**||**-**|
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||**Details**|||**Fund to which asset**
**belongs**||**Cost (optional)**|||**Current value**
**(optional)**|
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|Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees||Signature||Print|Name||||Date of approval|
|||SIGN||Suresh Kumar|||||14/10/2025|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
14/10/2025
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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** Dhyan Foundation UK **On accounts for the year** 2024 **Charity no** 1190502 **ended (if any) Set out on pages** (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)
I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended **31 / 12 / 2024** . **Responsibilities and** As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the **basis of report** accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).
I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.
**Independent** I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have **examiner's statement** come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect: I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report 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: Date:** 26/10/2025 **Name:** Christopher Neilon **Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 7 Milbourne House, Princess Square, Esher, KT109EW
I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.
## **Section B Disclosure**
Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).
1
**Oct 2018**
**IER**
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
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**Oct 2018**
**IER**