Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Charitable Trust

Analysis

Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Charitable Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in London. It was registered in June 1988, 38 years ago. Its declared purposes cover general charitable purposes, education/training, religious activities and environment/conservation/heritage, which this site groups under religion. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it provides human resources and provides services.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Charitable Trust reported income of £29k and spending of £22k, leaving 24% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £27k to £29k (+7.8%), an average of +1.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 37%. Over the whole period it spent 77% of the income it received.

Among 20,496 England and Wales charities whose main cause is religion and that reported income, Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Charitable 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 52nd percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include St Marys Indian Orthodox Church, Sunderland (£29k), Christian Evangelical Fellowship (£29k) and Bloxwich Spiritualist Church (£29k).