The Fars Chanmugam Trust

Analysis

The Fars Chanmugam Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Herts. It was registered in August 2013, 13 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and the prevention or relief of poverty, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides human resources.

In the financial year ending April 2025, The Fars Chanmugam Trust reported income of £22k and spending of £83k, spending 373% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from April 2021 to April 2025, income grew from £20k to £22k (+14%), an average of +3.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to April 2022, when income rose by 295%. Over the whole period it spent 151% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Fars Chanmugam Trust sits at the 39th percentile: it is larger than about 39% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 47th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Everlasting Hope Ministries (£22k), Special Educational Needs and Disability Aid (£22k) and Medway Hindu Parivar (£22k).