Registered charity · London
Vedagama Sabha
- 9 trustees
Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources
Who leads it
- DR P AmbikapathyChair
- Gobalakrishnan Balagurusamy SarmaTrustee
- Shyamala SivamTrustee
- Sivashanthi ThiyagarajanTrustee · since 2019
- Srividyananthan Ramachandra KurukkalTrustee · since 2020
- Velumani SwaminathanTrustee · since 2018
- Vidya KesavanTrustee · since 2019
- Vidya ShangarTrustee · since 2017
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- Vidyarubini KrishnanTrustee · since 2016
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief, Accommodation/housing and 2 more
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Registered
- 1998
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2024--
- 2023--
- 2022--
Earlier years
- 2021--
- 2020£32k£5k
Charitable objects
1) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE PHILOSOPHY, PRECEPTS AND PRACTICE OF HINDUISM AND IN PARTICULAR AGAMIC AND VEDIC VALUES2)TO PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR CULTURAL, SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS DEVELOPMENT, RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION FOR THOSE WHO NEED THEM BOTH BECAUSE OF THEIR YOUTH AND THEIR CONDITION IN LIFE3) TO RELIEVE PERSONS PRIMARILY OF THE VAIDIKA COMMUNITY WHO ARE IN CONDITIONS OF NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS4) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE TAMIL LANGUAGE AND SANSKRIT LANGUAGE, CARNATIC MUSIC, BHARATA DANCE, DRAMA AND ORATION5)TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT HEALTH BY SUPPORTING AND PROMOTING RESEARCH ON ASPECTS OF HEALTH PROBLEMS AMONGST VEGETARIANS AND TO PROMULGATE THE USEFUL RESULTS THEREOF
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Board DNA
How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.
9 trustees on the board
- DR P Ambikapathy Chair
- Gobalakrishnan Balagurusamy Sarma
- Shyamala Sivam
- Sivashanthi Thiyagarajan since 2019
- Srividyananthan Ramachandra Kurukkal since 2020
- Velumani Swaminathan since 2018
- Vidya Kesavan since 2019
- Vidya Shangar since 2017
- Vidyarubini Krishnan since 2016
Trustees past 6 years
- Sivashanthi Thiyagarajan since 2019
- Velumani Swaminathan since 2018
- Vidya Kesavan since 2019
- Vidya Shangar since 2017
- Vidyarubini Krishnan since 2016
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (9)
- DR P Ambikapathy Chair
- Gobalakrishnan Balagurusamy Sarma
- Shyamala Sivam
- Sivashanthi Thiyagarajan since 2019
- Srividyananthan Ramachandra Kurukkal since 2020
- Velumani Swaminathan since 2018
- Vidya Kesavan since 2019
- Vidya Shangar since 2017
- Vidyarubini Krishnan since 2016
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Gaps to watch
- No commercial or business experience on the board
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1072936
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED ON 27TH APRIL 1997 AS AMENDED ON 12TH JULY 1998
- Contact on the register
- 02084780577 · vedagamasabha94@gmail.com
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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