## **Trustees' Annual Report for the period**
Period start date Period end date Day Month Year Day Month Year **From 6 April 2024 To 5 April 2025**
## Section A Reference and administration details
**Charity name** Shanti Bhavan Children’s Project: U.K. Chapter **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number (if any)** 1197099
**Charity's principal address** 3 Bunkers Crescent Bletchley Milton Keynes **Postcode** MK3 6FP
## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity**
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**|
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||Alexis Golden||||
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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**
March **2012**
**TAR**
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|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**
**Type of adviser**
**Name**
**Address**|
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## **Section B Structure, governance and management**
## **Description of the charity’s trusts**
Constitution
Type of governing document (eg. trust deed, constitution) CIO How the charity is constituted
- (eg. trust, association, company)
Appointed by the Chair Trustee selection methods
- (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**
Established for the education of Dalit children in need in India with a view to enhancing their self-esteem, aspiration and motivation so they can participate more fully in society, including taking up position of leadership, and to relieve their need in such ways that are for the benefit of the public and exclusively charitable according to English law.
March **2012**
**TAR**
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Engaging with existing and potential donors with the objective of providing support and enhancing awareness of the charity and its objectives/achievements.
Supporting alumni who are based in the UK to assist them with settling in, providing networking opportunities, and assisting with job searches. Coordinating with other Shanti Bhavan employees and volunteers to ensure connectivity with the wider organisation.
**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)**
Organisation and promotion of the annual fundraising event.
**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.
March **2012**
**TAR**
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Section D Achievements and performance
**Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the year**
Highest annual income received of £245,859 since inception. Fundraising event held at the House of Lords returning to the same venue from 2022.
March **2012**
**TAR**
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## **Section E Financial review**
With minimal/zero unexpected costs given the structure of the charity, it **Brief statement of the** has been agreed to keep a minimum of £10,000 in the charity bank **charity’s policy on reserves** account to cover any emergency/unforeseen costs.
**Details of any funds materially** None **in deficit**
## **Further financial review details (Optional information)**
Most income came from the regular donations we receive from UK You **may choose** to include supporters. additional information, where relevant about:
£100,000 was received from a new corporate sponsor who has become closely involved with the school.
- 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)** Jay Singadia Alexis Golden **Position (eg Secretary, Chair,** Vice-Chair **etc)**[Chair ] **Date**
March **2012**
**TAR**
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||**Shanti Bhavan Children's Project: U.K. Chapter**|**Shanti Bhavan Children's Project: U.K. Chapter**|**Shanti Bhavan Children's Project: U.K. Chapter**|**1197099**|**1197099**|**1197099**|**CC16a**|
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||**For the period**
**from**|06/04/2024|**To**||05/04/2025|||
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|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||||||
|**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**240,808**
**5,051**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**245,859**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**245,859**
**94**
**180,774**
**8,027**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**188,895**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**188,895**
**56,964**
**-**
**-**
**56,964**|**Restricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**||**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**240,808**
**5,051**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**245,859**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**245,859**
**-**
**94**
**180,774**
**8,027**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**188,895**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**188,895**
**56,964**||**Last year**
**to the nearest £**|
|Donations|**240,808**||||||**-**|
|Ticket Sales|**5,051**||||||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_
_AR)_|**245,859**||||||**-**|
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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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|**Governance Costs**|||||||**-**|
|Bank Charges|**94**||||||**-**|
|Transfers to SB US entity|**180,774**||||||**-**|
|**Charitable Activities**|**8,027**||||||**-**|
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|**_Sub total_ **|**188,895**||||||**-**|
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|**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**||||||||
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|**_Total payments_**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**||||||||
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||**56,964**|**-**|**-**||**56,964**||**-**|
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||**56,964**|**-**|**-**||**56,964**||**-**|
CCXX R1 accounts (SS)
06/01/2026
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## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**
|**Categories**
Signed by one or two trustees on
behalf of all the trustees
**B5 Liabilities**
**B3 Investment assets**
**B2 Other monetary assets**
**B4 Assets retained for the**
**charity’s own use**
**B1 Cash funds**|**Details**
**Details**
**_Total cash funds_**
(agree balances with receipts and payments
account(s))
**Details**
**Details**
**Details**
Signature|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**107,956**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**107,956**
**-**
Agreement Error
OK
**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**Restricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**asset belongs**
**Cost (optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**Fund to which**
**liability relates**
**Amount due**
**(optional)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
Print Name
JAY SINGADIA|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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**funds**
**to nearest £**|
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**(optional)**|
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|||JAY SINGADIA|Nov 11, 2025|
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CCXX R2 accounts (SS)
06/01/2026
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## **Independent examiner's report on the accounts**
**Section A Independent Examiner’s Report**
## **Report to the trustees/** Ch Shanti Bhavan Children’s Project: U.K. Chapter arity Name **members of**
**On accounts for the year** 5 April 2025 **Charity no** 1197099 **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 **DD / MM / YYYY** .
- **Responsibilities and** As the charity trustees of the Trust, you are responsible for the preparation **basis of report** of the 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 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 (other than that disclosed below *) in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
- accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Act or
- the accounts do not accord with the accounting records
I have no concerns and 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._
**Date:** 06-01-2026 **Signed: Name:** Nitin Kumsi **Relevant professional** ACA (ICAEW) **qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** 7, Treborough, Furzton Milton Keynes MK4 1LR
**October 2018**
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**IER**
**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).
**Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose** .
**October 2018**
2
**IER**