MILAP FESTIVAL TRUST

Registered charity 1024761 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MILAP, MILAPFEST

Milap Festival Trust is a National Indian Arts Development Trust working nationally to develop, promote and support Indian arts and culture through an annual programme of music, dance, theatre and regular & extensive educational work. A particular focus of the trust is to support the professional development of young British musicians and dancers through two national orchestras, Samyo & Tarang.

Objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CHARITY (“THE OBJECTS”) ARE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND CULTURE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, INCLUDING PERSONS RESIDENT IN MERSEYSIDE AND ELSEWHERE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND INTERNATIONALLY, BY THE PROMOTION OF ARTS, MUSIC AND CRAFTS (MEANING THE VISUAL, LITERARY, MUSICAL, DRAMATIC OR ANY OTHER ARTS PROVIDED IN EACH CASE THAT THEY ARE OF RECOGNISED CULTURAL, AESTHETIC OR EDUCATIONAL VALUE).

Area of benefit: MERSEYSIDE AND ELSEWHERE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND INTERNATIONALLY.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £66,085 for the year, resulting in total unrestricted funds decreasing from £263,309 to £202,224. The trustees note that expenditure exceeded income and continue to monitor the financial position closely amidst a challenging funding environment. Despite this, the organization remains solvent with no liabilities due after more than one year.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Milap (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Liverpool City Council — “Milap is supported by funding from its home city of Liverpool via Liverpool City Council’s / Culture Liverpool’s Culture & Arts Investment P…” (source page)

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.8 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (94% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 17.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anupama Shrotri
• Dr GEETA NAYAK
• Dr Haekyung Um · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Prashanthini Jeyarajan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Harveen Kaur Mann-Neary
• Kenneth William Baird · trustee of 1 other charity
• Mayoor Patel BCA · trustee of 2 other charities
• Ravi Nagpaul
• Talat Farooq-Awan

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE MATHIESON MUSIC TRUST.

• THE MATHIESON MUSIC TRUST income £143k
• DARBAR ARTS CULTURE AND HERITAGE TRUST income £1.3m
• TWO MOORS FESTIVAL LIMITED income £229k
• THE LLANGOLLEN INTERNATIONAL MUSICAL EISTEDDFOD LIMITED income £1.5m
• THE TILLETT TRUST income £241k
• DEAL MUSIC AND ARTS LIMITED income £242k

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.