Finance Score: -9

Governance Score: -1

Support Score: 3

Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -3 times
Spending falling: -1
Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

No conflicts policy: -1

Gov Income
Grant maker support: +3

Overall GiG Score: -7

AKSHAR EDUCATIONAL TRUST

PROVISION OF EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN FROM THE AGE OF 2.5 TO 18 AND ADULT EDUCATION IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received Government grants

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy

Financial issues to consider:

A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Accounts have been filed late on 3 occasions over the last 5 years and the current period appears to have been extended
Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/08/23		£6	£577	£-570	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/08/22	*	£905	£17	£888	£0	£570	£570	401.7	0	3
31/08/21		£450	£1,247	£-797	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	0
31/08/20	*	£1,208	£2,004	£-796	£0	£483	£483	2.9	40	0
31/08/19	*	£2,592	£3,809	£-1,217	£8	£1,280	£504	1.6	92	11
31/08/18	*	£4,147	£4,145	£2	£5	£2,497	£1,723	5	106	0
31/08/17		£4,325	£4,193	£132	£25	£2,495	£1,722	4.9	104	0
31/08/16		£4,349	£4,270	£78	£27	£2,453	£1,688	4.7	101	0
31/08/15		£4,482	£4,241	£241	£24	£2,374	£1,639	4.6	103	0
31/08/14		£4,096	£3,960	£136	£0	£2,133	£1,427	4.3	99	0
31/08/13		£4,266	£4,146	£120	£0	£1,998	£1,325	3.8	109	0
31/08/12	*	£4,058	£4,031	£26	£0	£1,878	£1,234	3.7	104	0
31/08/11	*	£4,013	£3,953	£60	£0	£1,852	£1,224	3.7	98	0
31/08/10	*	£3,770	£3,594	£175	£0	£1,792	£1,173	3.9	93	0
31/08/09		£3,663	£3,401	£262	£0	£1,617	£998	3.5	95	0
31/08/08	*	£3,285	£3,349	£-64	£0	£1,355	£747	2.7	101	0
31/08/07	*	£3,308	£3,201	£107	£0	£1,419	£848	3.2	107	0
31/08/06	*	£3,244	£3,091	£153	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/08/05?	*	£2,025	£1,895	£130	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0
31/12/04	*	£3,001	£2,718	£284	£0	£0	£0	n/a	0	0

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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000

Established: 31 years

02089658381

Charity Commission for England and Wales

Listed activities

Education/Training

GiG Classification

Secondary schools

How it operates

Makes Grants to Organisations

Where it operates

Brent,

Who it helps

Children/Young People

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)

KISHOREKANT GORDHANDAS BHATTESSA

ARVIND P PATEL

JAYENDRA PATEL PATEL

MAHESH M PATEL

MR JM PATEL (Chair)

Legal constitution

Charity registered in England & Wales on 13/07/1993, number: 1023731

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Complaints handling
Paying staff
Risk management
Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Volunteer management

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR22: 6 days late, AR20: 176 days late, AR19: 472 days late, AR18: 148 days late, AR12: 121 days late, AR11: 127 days late, AR10: 19 days late, AR08: 113 days late, AR07: 112 days late, AR06: 47 days late, AR05: 31 days late, AR04: 1 days late,

Main office

260 BRENTFIELD ROAD
NEASDEN
LONDON
NW10 8HE

Objectives

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN THE FOLLOWING ORDER OF PREFERENCE:1)CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS UP TO 19 YEARS OF AGE;2)ADULTS BY PROVIDING AND MAINTAINING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION AND MAINTENANCE OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND INDIA AND ELSEWHERE WHICH SHALL BE ADMINISTERED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TENETS AND DOCTRINES OF THE HINDU FAITH AND IN PARTICULAR IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TEACHINGS AND PRINCIPLES OF AKSHAR PURUSHOTTAM SWAMINARAYAN DENOMINATION OF THE HINDU RELIGION BASED UPON THE TEACHINGS AND PRINCIPLES OF BHAGWAN SWAMINARAYAN. THESE VEDIC TEACHINGS AND PRINCIPLES, BASED ON THE BRAHMA SUTRAS, UPANISHADS AND BHAGAVAD GITA, AS WELL AS OTHER FOUNDATIONAL HINDU SCRIPTURES, ARE COLLECTIVELY KNOWN AS SWAMINARAYAN DARSHAN OR AKSHAR PURUSHOTTAM UPASANA – THAT IS, WORSHIPPING BHAGWAN SWAMINARAYAN AS PURNA PURUSHOTTAM NARAYAN (THE SUPREME AND ONE GOD) BY PURIFYING ONESELF AND BECOMING ONE WITH GUNATITANAND SWAMI AS AKSHARBRAHMAN (GOD’S ETERNAL ABODE), ALSO KNOWN AS BRAHMARUP, THROUGH THE ASSOCIATION OF THE CURRENT BRAHMASWARUP GURU. AKSHAR PURUSHOTTAM UPASANA IS FURTHER BASED ON THE FOUR PRINCIPLES OF EKANTIK DHARMA (NAMELY DHARMA, GNAN, VAIRAGYA AND BHAKTI) AND ITS TEACHINGS ARE PROPAGATED AND ENUNCIATED BY THE SPIRITUAL SUCCESSORS OF BHAGWAN SWAMINARAYAN, NAMELY AKSHARBRAHMAN GUNATITANAND SWAMI, SHRI PRAGJI BHAKTA (ALSO KNOWN AS BHAGATJI MAHARAJ), SHASTRI YAGNAPURUSHDAS (ALSO KNOWN AS SHASTRIJI MAHARAJ), SWAMI GNANJIVANDAS (ALSO KNOWN AS YOGIJI MAHARAJ), SHASTRI NARAYANSWARUPDAS (PRESENT SPIRITUAL HEAD, ALSO KNOWN AS PRAMUKH SWAMI MAHARAJ) AND HIS DIRECT SUCCESSOR AS SELECTED BY SHASTRI NARAYANSWARUPDAS AND THOSE DIRECT SUCCESSORS SELECTED IN THIS MANNER THEREAFTER

Defined Area of Benefit:

UNITED KINGDOM AND INDIA AND ELSEWHERE

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