CROYDON ACADEMY OF EASTERN ARTS (CAEA)

Registered charity 1070419 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

CAEA is a umbrella organisation, its main activities to educate and train as young as 4 to 18 years in Tamil and Eastern Arts, through the community school "South London Tamil School"Secondly we cater for our young and the youth with activities advice and counsellingThirdly we endeavour to address the needs of our elderly population of the community with activities advice and counselling as

Objects

THE OBJECTIVES OF THE CAEA ARE TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES TO ADVANCE EDUCATION, CULTURAL HERITAGE, AND THE FURTHERANCE OF SOCIAL INCLUSION AND WELLBEING, PRIMARILY WITHIN THE TAMIL COMMUNITY IN THE LONDON BOROUGH OF CROYDON AND SURROUNDING AREAS, TO PROMOTE SIMILAR OBJECTIVES WHICH ARE DEEMED BY LAW TO BE CHARITABLE AND TO PROVIDE OR ASSIST IN THE PROVISIONS OF FACILITIES FOR RECREATION AND LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES BENEFITING THE COMMUNITY.

Area of benefit: CROYDON AND ENVIRONS

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

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a satisfactory financial outcome with a net increase in funds, resulting in total unrestricted reserves of £280,732. The trustees report that they monitor reserves to ensure they are neither excessive nor in deficit, and the independent examiner confirmed no material matters were identified during the examination.

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rajani Ragulanchair
• Achuthan Leelaratnam
• Karteepan Logarajah
• Prasanna Sivanathan
• Rathika Thiraviyathasan
• Thayalini Kirubagaran

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

Operates in: Kent · Surrey · Throughout London

Income and spending

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