The key benefit will be the personal feeling that you belong to the Shree Kutch Leva Patel Community (SKLPC) and will be supporting the construction of a building with modern sports and community facilities for the wider community that will serve the next generations in our community. This project will benefit not only you but your children, friends and other fellow community members.
We are all part of SKLPC by virtue of our ancestry.We may move cities, countries and continents, but we will for generations still be known as originating from the Chovis (24) Leva Patel gaams of Kutch. It is our opportunity to build a flagship centre that epitomises our community identity, strength and cohesion and will bring pride and joy for years to come. Elevate our kanbi community to new heights and help future generations preserve our social, cultural and personal beliefs through education, social and sports activities.
The Centre in its present condition does not meet our communities’ requirements. It requires a lot of work to be done to provide better and modern facilities for our Sports and Community events, including upgrading our facilities for better traffic management to make it easier for vehicles to enter and exit the centre, better security and allowing better pedestrian’s access to our centre.
Every year we spend thousands of pounds to organise our functions in a large marquee with associated sound systems, stage, decorations, carpeted flooring, etc. Not to mention the time spent by hundreds of our dedicated volunteers to set up and manage it. At the same time, the cost of hiring external services for our functions is increasing yearly, as with everything else in life. The new centre will address many of these issues with the new and modern facilities for all community members. It will be environmentally friendly and cost-effective to run.
The SKLPC (UK) India Gardens project is to develop and rejuvenate the facilities enabling our community to play a variety of sports as well as stay healthy and active. We believe the new state-of-the-art centre will encourage people of all ages to participate actively in sports, fitness and other community activities with new energy and enthusiasm.
Our regenerated centre will be a state of the Art Sports & Community Centre complying with current rules, regulations and modern standards of construction and Sports Facilities so that the users of the centre can enjoy and excel in their chosen activities and can make the most of their visit during their stay at the centre.
a) Two indoor halls with two separate dining facilities and two separate kitchen facilities in different flexible combinations for weddings and other functions
b) A large modern outdoor children’s play area, green rooftop garden and meditation area
c) Multi-purpose rooms for meetings, parties, mehndi nights, dhol classes, cultural classes, training classes, bereavement prayers, seminars, conferences, member’s lounge and facilities for senior citizens.
d) Walking track that goes around the perimeter of our grounds
a) Two external cricket pitches and a separate cricket pavilion, viewing terrace, changing and shower facilities
b) One external football pitch with changing and shower facilities
c) Multi-Purpose sports hall comprising eight badminton courts, 5-a-side football pitch, netball courts, volleyball courts and indoor cricket nets
d) Studios/multi-purpose rooms available for a gym, aerobics, dance classes, spin classes, Zumba, self-defence, yoga, etc.
a) A safe, secure and modern playing ground with a range of playing equipment
b) Sports activities
c) Educational seminars such as careers advise
d) Possibilities of running summer, half terms camps, revision classes etc.
e) Crèche facilities
f) Gaming room facility
g) Children’s birthday party facilities
a) Sports activities, including Cricket and football
b) Educational seminars such as careers advise
c) Possibilities of running summer and half terms camps in the future
d) Business, professional and social seminars and networking facilities
e) Gym facilities
f) Possibilities of ladies’ netball, ladies cricket and volleyball team
a) Utilising sports facilities including Cricket and football
b) Utilising keep fit activities such as yoga, walking track, gym, Zumba classes, meditation area etc.
c) Social café area
d) Attending seminars
e) Utilising the hall facilities
f) Crèche facilities for your children
g) Discounted fees for your children for the Cricket Club
a) Walking facilities
b) Meditation area
c) Library and weekly movies facilities
d) Social activities
e) Keep fit & yoga activities
f) Relaxation in the rooftop garden
g) Traditional benches for sitting
h) Flower / Vegetable gardens
i) Possibility of transport from the local area to Northolt
a) Meeting / Seminar rooms
b) Away day sports facilities
c) Advertising and Marketing of your businesses
d) Company social events
e) Company award evenings
f) Team Building Days
a) Sports activities
b) Running seminars and giving careers advice
c) Professional networking events
d) Gym facilities
a) Grants towards use of sports facilities
b) Grants for keep fit activities such as yoga, gym, Zumba classes
d) Grants towards hall hire
e) Discounted Tuition fees at Saturday School
f) Discounted fees for our Cricket Club
g) Discounted tickets for our Navratri and other events
(All discounts are subject to availability and new Terms and Conditions (TBC). T&C to be finalised before the Centre opens)
Once the centre opens, affiliated organisations/gaams/temples will be given concession to hire available facilities. Any concession given will be subject to availability based on bookings, the new Terms and Conditions, which will be finalised before the centre opens.
a) Grants to use our sports facilities
b) Grants for keep fit activities such as yoga, gym, Zumba classes
c) Secure facilities with parking, café, shower facilities and changing rooms
d) Grants for hall hire for sports functions
All facilities will be available for hire subject to availability and T & C (TBC)
The funds/donations will be collected by:
Personal contact within our Community Members, businesses, professionals and online; donation in kind (contribution of building materials, equipment & other accessories, e.g. electrical, mechanical, kitchen & bathrooms etc..) and organising fundraising events.
Yes. Opportunities are available to donors on naming rights and sponsors’ plaques. Please contact: Mavjibhai Dhanji Jadva Vekaria on 07831430812
Please contact by email at ig@sklpc.com requesting further information, or you can also call or text Mavjibhai Dhanji Jadva Vekaria on 07831430812
Currently, we have allocated £750,000 from our general fund.
We own Hendon Hall, which can be sold to help raise funds for this project.
Applications will be made for all available grants, but we have not included these amounts in our calculation since we have no control over how much we can apply for and, more importantly, what will be awarded in what timeframe.
Not at this point. We are focusing all our efforts on donations spread over the project’s duration. If a need arises, these options will also be considered if required.
You can donate by pledging online (top right button), direct via the below link: https://secure.blinkpayment.co.uk/sklpc or contact mavji.vekaria@sklpc.com
Yes. You can. Some community members have already approached us to do IG project awareness and fundraising events. Some events have been completed recently, and some are in progress. Please contact IG@sklpc.com
a) Ongoing fundraising with members and affiliated gaams
b) As a community member, you can contact at least two or three of your family members or friends to encourage them to donate. This can be done every week, if possible, on an ongoing basis during the project’s lifetime.
c) Children of any age are encouraged and welcome to gift any amount they wish to contribute. No amount is too small for this project.
d) Approaching prominent businesses within our community
e) Various fundraising events have been planned, and some events are completed successfully.
f) Awareness of our project through various social media channels and personal contacts
Don’t worry. That’s OK. We understand the situation some community members may have, and to address this, we have a monthly/annual payment facility, and you can donate the amount you are comfortable with. This can be spread over one, two or three years or more.
The fundraising will continue during the construction phase till the centre opens & will continue after that. We want you and your family to be part of this exciting once-in-a-lifetime community project in the UK. We want you to be happy and comfortable with the donation you wish to make or any method you want to use.
We have good positive support from our sister organisations and overseas community members. The current priority, however, is to collect the majority of the donations/pledges required for the new centre from our community members who live in the UK and will be the primary beneficiaries of the new centre.
Yes. You have to fill in the donation/pledge form, which has a unique number, so we can identify any payments you make into the SKLPC India Gardens project bank account.
If you need help in filling out the form or any other information on the project, please get in touch with Mavjibhai Dhanji Jadva Vekaria on 07831430812
Yes. After completing the donation/pledge form and making a payment, you will get a donation receipt and a copy of your original donation/pledge form. It will have the name of the person paying the donation.
Business Donations/Material donations are welcome.
You can donate in the following ways
a) Make a corporate donation to SKLPC, which is a registered charity
b) You can pledge materials as donations such as joinery, floor tiles, professional services etc.
c) You can pledge voluntary labour supply if you have a skilled workforce and team
Please contact IG@sklpc.com or speak to Mavjibhai Dhanji Jadva Vekaria on 07831430812
A+ Single only donor-only area.
Name (Namkaran) to be placed on the relevant designated area.
A All donations received, including benefits in kind over £25,000.
Sponsor’s Name Plaques (Takties) will be placed in Area A (To Be Allocated) and the designated sponsored area.
B All donations received, including benefits in kind, from £10,000 to £24,999.
Sponsor’s Name Plaques (Takties) will be placed in Area B (To Be Allocated) and the designated sponsored area.
C All donations received, including benefits in kind, from £2,000 to £9,999.
Sponsor’s Name Plaques (Takties) to be placed in Area C (To Be Allocated).
D All donations under £1,999, including benefits in kind.
All Donors are to be recognised in an Official Publication.
The sponsor’s Name will be placed in the designated area mentioned above.
Any IG donation received more than £1,000 from non-life members will be given the FREE option to become a life member of SKLPC (UK) on the project commencement.
No. The objectives of our Samaj, in line with our constitution, are to promote the advancement of Hindu religion, tradition, culture and community, providing a place where families and people of all ages can come together and enjoy the various events and cultural programmes.
All activities will be reviewd to see how we can and where we can continue them through the construction process, it is important to the committee we continue to engage and build on the community bonds.
All facilities will be available to the general public and can be booked based on the standard SKLPC terms and conditions.
All the current communication complies with GDPR since SKLPC (UK) retains the information for all SKLPC (UK) life members, which is not shared with the gaams. The gaams maintain their membership databases, which are not shared with SKLPC (UK).
HMRC have confirmed that the construction cost will be ‘zero rated’ so we will not be charged VAT
Applications will be made for all available grants. Still, we have not included these amounts in our calculation since we have no control over how much we can apply for and, more importantly, what will be awarded in what timeframe.
Yes. The consultation was carried out with our community members during our annual mela and with our sports clubs and Gaams on our current and future needs. Local planning authorities are also required to undertake a formal period of public consultation prior to deciding a planning application. Therefore, Ealing Council carried out the statutory local consultation before deciding on our planning application.
The India Gardens Project is now going under “Value Engineering” review process to minimise the project’s cost. Further information will be provided when it becomes available.
As discussed it is a condition of our planning permission (community use agreement) and our VAT zero rated position that we do not provide discounts. That being said our Constitution does provide for us to support other organisations to deliver our Objects, therefore we intend to offer grants to Gaams that wish to use our facilities for Object 3.1(b) i.e. leisure activities.
It is our intention that such grants will be made available so long as we can financially support the same, as a charity if the gaams are also seeking to achieve the Objects it is in our interest to support them to do so.
The centre will primarily be used as a sports and community centre, along with some casual use. Most other facilities located within residential areas will be operating with similar restrictions therefore we do not feel this will have a major negative impact on the hiring and use of the centre.
At present we are not considering funding the project through the issue of debt, this may be something we explore later depending on our financial position.
At present we are not considering funding the project through the issue of debt, this may be something we explore later depending on our financial position.
The figures presented throughout the course of the India Gardens project has always been on best estimate, until the centre is in operation it is impossible to measure with any degree of accuracy what the income and expenditure of the centre will be.
The information used to produce the estimates has been discussed by the committee and is felt to be as accurate as we can be based on the information available. We will however seek to produce a list of assumptions that have been used to arrive at our figures.
As a condition of our community use agreement (which is part of the planning permission), and as a condition for zero VAT being charged for the build, we cannot give priority to any persons, the centre must be operated on a first come first served basis.
Equally the centre will not be financially viable if we were to keep the centre empty waiting for one of our members to book an activity, therefore a balance will be found.
India Gardens will provide new state of the art facilities. With the financial pressure placed on local councils who regularly sub-contract their centres to external firms either those centres lack investment or at some point may close due to no longer being financially viable. By having India Gardens our community will have a centre of their own and will be involved in the decisions made about the running of the centre.
There will be adverse VAT consequences of providing members who are donors for the IG Project with concessionary rates.
We plan on keeping the hiring of the centre competitive and the use of the centre must go towards ensuring that it continues to be financially viable.
We want to give our own community the opportunity to be part of the IG Project before reaching out to members of other communities that might benefit from the centre. Other communities will no doubt be seeking something in return for their donations and that is something we are not prepared to give at this stage.
We are looking at opportunities to raise funds from government and NGOs.
An extensive engagement survey was carried out prior to the professionals being engaged to draw up plans for the new centre. We appreciate that some time has passed since that took place, the plans that have been drawn up based on that survey have been public for many years. We always welcome ongoing feedback and that can have an impact on the internal use of the centre.
We are in the process of reviewing the information obtained by the committee that was leading the Samaj at the time that works first commenced to plan the centre (pre planning permission). Financial models were created for the purposes of obtaining planning permission, we have reviewed some of this work and updated some of the figures based on information available to us. We shall continue to review this work and strengthen the assumptions made with comparable data where possible.
As at October 2022 we have obtained HMRC Clearance in respect of the VAT status of the building. HMRC have confirmed that the build cost will be zero rated.
HMRC Clearance was based on the form of the Community Use Agreement which was agreed with Ealing Council by the previous committee the form of the Community Use Agreement was set out in the S106 Agreement signed on 21 July 2021.
The proposed use of the centre has not changed, we do not propose to grant any discounts that may give rise to an adverse VAT charge.
We envisage selling the previous Hendon Samaj Hall in order to fund the project. The previous committee had obtained the member’s authority to do so at the EGM in 2018.
We can approach each of these organisations to express their interest in writing, however although doing so is informative to SKLPC in its budgeting, until the centre is operational we hope that they will all move to India Gardens before a written contract can be entered into.
The trustees and members of the committee are aware of the need for transparency. Procedures will be in place to ensure that conflicts of interest are identified and overall the community receives value for money.
A number of professionals are advising Samaj in respect of the build and their assistance will be sought on an ongoing basis to ensure that we adopt best practice and obtain best value for money on behalf of our members.
We are continuing the strategy that has been developed within Samaj for many years, this is to engage with our members, affiliated gaams and international branches to raise the necessary funds.
The question that is more relevant is how many car users do we expect to have on site on an average day and how many do we expect on ‘event’ days?
We are engaging with Ealing Council planners to discuss how we might accommodate more cars on site
Our Objects are as set out in our Constitution.
‘The advancement of Hindu religion, tradition and culture in particular among the Hindu community in the United Kingdom usually referred to as Shree Kutch Leva Patel Community which originates from the Kutch Gujarat State in India;
The relief of poverty, sickness, and distress among the Shree Kutch Leva Patel Community;
The advancement of education among children and adults of Shree Kutch Leva Patel Community; and
The provision of assistance in providing facilities for the recreation and other leisure time occupation and in particular of the Shree Kutch Leva Patel Community who have a need for such facilities by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, poverty and economic circumstances in the interests of social welfare and with the object of improving their conditions of life.’
We already extend our reach beyond Mela and Navratri. We have a well-established Saturday School which teaches our children Gujarati, music, etc. Furthermore we bring together community members with sport including cricket, football, badminton and volleyball.
In the near future we shall be introducing various seminars for our members to attend including new social events throughout the year.
Based on the plans drawn up at this time, the building is not carbon neutral but will meet the latest building regulations which include high levels of energy efficiency. Where feasible we will seek to go beyond the requirements.
A gym would be complimentary to all the other activities that India Gardens is able to offer i.e. crèche, café, sports facilities, fitness studio, cricket, walking route. While some family members may opt for use of the gym, others might choose one of the other activities on offer.
Based on the plans drawn up at this time, the building is not carbon neutral but will meet the latest building regulations which include high levels of energy efficiency. Where feasible we will seek to go beyond the requirements.
Profits of the Samaj will be used to further our objects, these are as follows:-
Our Objects are as set out in our Constitution.
‘The advancement of Hindu religion, tradition and culture in particular among the Hindu community in the United Kingdom usually referred to as Shree Kutch Leva Patel Community which originates from the Kutch Gujarat State in India;
The relief of poverty, sickness, and distress among the Shree Kutch Leva Patel Community;
The advancement of education among children and adults of Shree Kutch Leva Patel Community; and
The provision of assistance in providing facilities for the recreation and other leisure time occupation and in particular of the Shree Kutch Leva Patel Community who have a need for such facilities by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, poverty and economic circumstances in the interests of social welfare and with the object of improving their conditions of life.’
We will seek to use our profits (through the use of grants and provision of infrastructure) to help our affiliated gaam organisations to keep their doors open. We are aware that while some gaams continue to grow from strength to strength others struggle to hold even 1 event every few years.
As has been the case with many other Hindu institutions, having established a strong base from which to operate, they now look to provide satellite hubs which serve as local community centres for their members, maybe we might consider the same. At present our short and medium term focus is on building the centre and then it will be to ensure that it is running as efficiently as possible.
During the course of construction, a number of specialist trades and skilled labour will be require. Examples being carpentry, plumbing, electrical and plastering plus many more. We will seek support from our community memebers via our website, social platforms and network to gain sewaks.
