Origin from 2007
A UK-registered charity providing information and facilities to advance and promote the Jain religion for the benefit of the public, especially Jain communities in India and the UK, through education and training and through the relief of poverty, sickness and distress.
Facts
Humanitarian Aid Operated
Welfare and Humanitarian Aid OperationsThe Jain Network's own trustees' annual report and accounts, filed with the UK Charity Commission, report total income of 475,681 pounds sterling and total expenditure of 169,902 pounds sterling for the year ended 31 March 2025, advancing the Jain religion and its communities in India and the UK through education and training and through the relief of poverty, sickness and distress. 2 Humanitarian Aid Figure As Of Basis of the Humanitarian Aid Figure Origins
Origin Period FounderFounded under Dr Natubhai Shah, its Founder Chair, who led the merger and continues as Chairman and Chief Executive of its Board of Trustees. 1 FoundedLaunched in March 2007 as a merger of Jain Sangha of Europe, Jain Academy and Ahimsa for Quality of Life; acquired property in Colindale, North West London, in 2010 for the Jain Centre London. 1 Status
Current StatusThe Jain Network remains active today as a UK-registered charity providing information and facilities to advance and promote the Jain religion, continuing its work in education and training and in the relief of poverty, sickness and distress. 1 Organisation
Governing BodyManaged by a Board of Trustees including Founder Chair Dr Natubhai Shah as Chairman and Chief Executive, Dr Ajitkumar Shah as Secretary and Mr Dipak Shah as Treasurer. 1 Learn More
A 2007 Merger Creates a UK Jain Umbrella
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The Jain Network is a UK-registered charity formed in March 2007 as a merger of three existing organizations: Jain Sangha of Europe, Jain Academy and Ahimsa for Quality of Life. Its founding chair, Dr Natubhai Shah, led the merger and continues as Chairman and Chief Executive of its Board of Trustees.
Its stated purpose is to provide information and facilities to advance and promote the Jain religion for the benefit of the public, especially Jain communities in India and the UK, through education and training and through the relief of poverty, sickness and distress. In 2010 the Network acquired property in Colindale, North West London, to establish the Jain Centre London, giving the merged organization a permanent home.
The Network's Board of Trustees today includes Dr Ajitkumar Shah as Secretary and Mr Dipak Shah as Treasurer alongside founding chair Dr Natubhai Shah, continuing the governance structure set at the 2007 merger of its three founding organizations. The Jain Network remains active today as a UK-registered charity providing information and facilities to advance and promote the Jain religion, continuing its work in education and training and in the relief of poverty, sickness and distress nearly two decades after the merger that created it.
What the Trustees' Own Filing Shows
This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.
The Jain Network's trustees' annual report and accounts, filed with the UK Charity Commission for the year ended 31 March 2025, report total income of 475,681 pounds sterling against total expenditure of 169,902 pounds sterling. The filing states this funded the Network's stated purpose of advancing the Jain religion and its communities in India and the UK through education and training and through the relief of poverty, sickness and distress.
The gap between income and expenditure in a single filed year is not unusual for a charity holding reserves or capital assets such as the Jain Centre London, acquired in 2010; the filing itself does not break down how the surplus was allocated beyond its stated charitable purposes.
The figures are the Network's own, filed as part of the routine annual reporting the UK Charity Commission requires of every registered charity, rather than an independent audit commissioned separately for this entry, and they cover one financial year rather than the organization's activity since its 2007 founding. Read alongside that founding, the filing shows a small merged charity still operating comfortably within its stated purposes nearly two decades after Jain Sangha of Europe, Jain Academy and Ahimsa for Quality of Life combined to form it.
Cross-Tradition Connections
Associated With
This source names India directly: "public, especially Jain communities in India and the UK, through education and training and through the relief of poverty, sickness and distress."
Belongs to Tradition
The Jain Network is constituted to advance the Jain religion and its communities' welfare, so linked to Jainism at the religion level.
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