ART ASIA TRUST LIMITED

Registered charity 1070019 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ART ASIA

Our mission is to communicate the rich and exciting experience of South Asian Arts to the widest possible audience. Our work aspires to be entertaining, surprising and to celebrate our belief that the Arts of South Asia are universal in their appeal.

Objects

THE PROMOTION AND ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE CULTIVATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION IN DRAMA, MIME, OPERA, SINGING, MUSIC, DANCE, PAINTING AND SCULPTURE, CINEMA, LITERATURE, OTHER ARTS AND FOR THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE AND WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE FOR THE PUBLIC AT LARGE.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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 achieved a surplus of £10,564 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with unrestricted funds totaling £227,272. The directors consider it prudent to retain reserves of at least £100,000 to support future costs, a target which is comfortably exceeded by the current unrestricted reserves. The organization acknowledges financial risks related to reliance on fixed funding and potential reductions from major funders such as the Arts Council England.

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 5 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
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• ARZOO IQBAL MA
• Anupama Kunjur
• Dr Swarna Prasad
• Latha Davda
• MEENA VASHISHT
• Shelagh Lee
• Shishir Yadav
• Simon Ashworth

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

Operates in: Bournemouth · Dorset · Hampshire · Isle Of Wight · Portsmouth City · Southampton City · Wiltshire

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE SOUTH ASIAN DECORATIVE ARTS AND CRAFTS COLLECTION TRUST.

• THE SOUTH ASIAN DECORATIVE ARTS AND CRAFTS COLLECTION TRUST income £1.6m
• SOUTH ASIAN ARTS-UK income £834k
• DARBAR ARTS CULTURE AND HERITAGE TRUST income £1.3m
• GO HELP ASIA TRUST income £265k
• STIWT ARTS TRUST LIMITED income £274k
• ARTVENTURE TRUST LIMITED income £129k

Side by side with its peers

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