Finance Score: 7
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 11
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Multiple returns filed late: -3
  • Overall weighted support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 17 ?

MAHADEVI YOGA CENTRE

1. preserve and protect the good health of the public by providing yoga sessions,principally (but not exclusively) to children and adults with special needs; and2. advance the study and practice of yoga including (but not limited to) training future0001
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending since inception
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly female
  • Over half the Board have joined recently
  • Returns have been filed late on 3 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Volun-
teers
30/04/23£174£145£29n/a
30/04/22*£134£156£-22n/a
30/04/21*£141£89£53n/a
30/04/20?£93£75£17n/a
30/03/19*£50£40£10n/a
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 7 years

www.mahadevicentre.com

info@mahadevicentre.com

07772336719

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Disability
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Community sports activities
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Camden, City Of London, Hackney, Haringey, Islington, Redbridge,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
  • People With Disabilities

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Cloudesley£62,280
City Bridge Trust£42,850
Greater London Authority£31,500
London Marathon Charitable Trust£19,800
National Lottery Community Fund£19,734
Sport England£16,287
Cripplegate Foundation£12,885
The Clothworkers Foundation£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Greater London Authority - Go! London Fund - Core funding to support the work of MahaDevi Yoga Centre
£31,500 20/03/2024
We are seeking core funding to support our salaries, strengthen our organisational resilience, and deliver and develop our services for children and young people with additional and complex needs, especially our yoga sessions and work experience ....more
Cloudesley - Grant to MahaDevi Yoga Centre
£52,500 20/02/2024
Therapeutic yoga for children and young people with additional or complex needs
Cloudesley - Grant to MahaDevi Yoga Centre
£9,780 21/02/2023
Wellbeing activities for children and young people with disabilities and special needs
London Marathon Charitable Trust - Conversion of storage room into fourth yoga studio
£19,800 21/02/2023
towards converting an existing storage room into a fourth yoga studio and to purchase and install a traverse hoist system to benefit children and young people with disabilities and special needs
National Lottery Community Fund - Disability Inclusion
£9,980 25/11/2022
The funding will be used to build the capacity of the group to become a deaf and disabled people led organisation. They will recruitie an inclusion coordinator who will provide governance support develop and deliver a monthly parents’ peer support ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to MahaDevi Yoga Centre
£42,850 17/10/2022
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£42,850 over 3 years (£14,000, £14,280, £14,570) contributing towards salaries to deliver therapeutic yoga work with children and young people with additional needs and disabilities.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to MahaDevi Yoga Centre
£10,000 03/12/2021
refurbishment of building for a charity supporting people with disabilties in London
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£9,000 19/11/2021
Core costs funding
The Leathersellers' Company Charitable Fund - Grant to MahaDevi Yoga Centre
£1,500 03/11/2021
Small Grant Restricted to provide yoga classes for children with disabilities
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Engagement & Partnerships
£9,754 23/07/2021
This funding is being used to extend the groups reach and support children and young people with disabilities and special needs through yoga therapy sessions. The group will also establish a Champions network and run events to reach more families in ....more
Sport England - COVID19 Return to Play
£6,802 03/06/2021
2
Funding under Sport England's Return to Play - Small Grants funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID19 Return to Play. This project is a Yoga project, with a focus on beneficiaries with a disability.
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To MahaDevi Yoga Centre
£2,980 12/05/2021
Disability Fund
London Catalyst - MahaDevi Yoga Centre - 1
£2,000 11/05/2021
Weekly yoga club for teenage girls with disabilities and special needs to improve their health & wellbeing and social skills.
Sport England - COVID-19 CEF
£9,485 26/06/2020
4
Funding under Sport England's COVID-19 Community Emergency Fund funding programme for a Revenue project titled COVID-19 CEF. This project lists its main activity as Yoga
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£9,905 22/06/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to operate, thereby reducing the burden on public ....more
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To MahaDevi Yoga Centre
£9,905 22/05/2020
Online yoga therapy sessions
Cripplegate Foundation - Grant To MahaDevi Yoga Centre
£5,000 05/11/2019
Access to Work - Supporting young people in to work
National Lottery Community Fund - Charity Administrator
£9,981 19/09/2019
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Charity Administrator
Woodward Charitable Trust - Therapeutic yoga for all families with children with special needs
£1,000 01/04/2019
Towards therapeutic yoga for all families with children with special needs.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • CLAUDINE SACHI MUENGER Appointed: 2022
  • DR ANAIS HANNAH SAEGESSER (Chair) Appointed: 2017
  • ELINA MARIA NUPPONEN Appointed: 2020
  • JASON GUNN Appointed: 2022
  • SAMANTHA AKITA Appointed: 2022
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 16/04/2018, number: 1177960
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
5 returns made; AR22: 143 days late, AR21: 52 days late, AR19: 89 days late,
Main office

MAHADEVI YOGA CENTRE
12 Eden Grove
LONDON
N7 8EQ

Objectives

1. TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE GOOD HEALTH OF THE PUBLIC BY PROVIDING YOGA SESSIONS, PRINCIPALLY (BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY) TO CHILDREN AND ADULTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS; AND2. TO ADVANCE THE STUDY AND PRACTICE OF YOGA INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) TRAINING FUTURE INSTRUCTORS BY PROVIDING CLASSES.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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