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Registered charity · Carmarthen

The Community of the Many Names of GOD

  • 10 trustees
  • Income £819k (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources

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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, Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty and 6 more
Where
Carmarthenshire
Website
www.skandavale.org (opens in a new tab)
Registered
1981

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£819k£692k
  • 2023£1.0m£697k
  • 2022£740k£581k
Earlier years
  • 2021£411k£455k
  • 2020£319k£443k

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2020: Government grants 3%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

(1) TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE PUBLIC WORSHIP OF GOD IN HIS UNIVERSALITY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SPIRITUAL TEACHINGS OF KRISHNA AS SET OUT IN THE BHAGAVAD GITA AT THE HINDU TEMPLE MAINTAINED BY THE COMMUNITY AT SKANDA VALE OR ANY OTHER PLACES OF PUBLIC WORSHIP MAINTAINED OR USED BY THE COMMUNITY. (2) TO ADVANCE RELIGION AND RELIGIOUS EDUCATION BY PROPAGATING TO THE PUBLIC THE SAID SPIRITUAL TEACHINGS ABOUT GOD IN HIS UNIVERSALITY. (3) TO MAINTAIN A COMMUNITY OF PEOPLE LIVING TOGETHER IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AFORESAID SPIRITUAL TEACHINGS AS A RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY. (4) TO RELIEVE POVERTY OF DESERVING PERSONS AND SUPPORT CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS FOR RELIEF OF POVERTY. (5) TO RELIEVE THE SICKNESS AND SUFFERING AND TO PROMOTE THE SPIRITUAL WELL BEING OF PERSONS OF ALL AGES REQUIRING PALLIATIVE, SPECIALIST AND MEDICAL CARE BY PROVIDING AND ASSISTING IN THE PROVISION OF PALLIATIVE CARE,HOME CARE AND HOSPICE CARE FOR BOTH DAY PATIENTS AND RESIDENT PATIENTS

Grants received

2 grants · £520,000 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £520,000 (2 grants)

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £20,0002026-01-05
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £500,0002014-03-20
Board analysis

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.

10 trustees on the board

15y median 13y
average tenure
33y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

15.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (9)

Portfolio (1)

0
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

General Charitable Purposes 10The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 10Education/training 9The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 1

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.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£819k latest income · income exceeded spending in 2023 and 2024
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

1.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 4.0 months · was 1.7 in 2020

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EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
511166
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 17/09/1980AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 09/02/2002AS AMENDED BY DEED DATED 12/12/2015AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 07 OCT 2017 as amended on 11 Jul 2020
Contact on the register
01559 384421 · enquiries@skandavale.org
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
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