SOUTH ASIAN ARTS-UK

Registered charity 1080292 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as LEEDS CENTRE FOR INDIAN MUSIC AND DANCE

SAA-uk (South Asian Arts-uk) is a small, dynamic organisation and registered charity committed to making South Asian arts more readily available through working collaboratively and by nurturing partnerships through our performance, education and consultancy programme. Our mission is: To promote engagement with traditional and contemporary South Asian Music and Dance.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE FIELD OF SOUTH ASIAN MUSIC AND DANCE, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH THE PROVISION OF PARTICIPATION AND PERFORMANCE, TRAINING, SUPPORT AND INFORMATION SERVICES

Area of benefit: IN PRACTICE LEEDS AND WEST YORKSHIRE

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 · Environment/conservation/heritage · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted funds increased to £309,137, bringing total funds carried forward to £324,262. The trustees note the importance of maintaining sufficient reserves for financial security while balancing the need to use funding to further the charity's aims. The auditors confirmed that the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by KJA Kilner Johnson Ltd. 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
• 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 profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adele Newman
• Barsa Ray
• Flora Yang
• Ines Ailsa Soria-Donlan
• Mohit Chaturvedi
• PAUL FRENCH
• Ramesh Chauhan
• Renuka Nadarajan Jnt. Chair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Sidrah Warburton

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ART ASIA TRUST LIMITED.

• ART ASIA TRUST LIMITED income £277k
• THE SOUTH ASIAN DECORATIVE ARTS AND CRAFTS COLLECTION TRUST income £1.6m
• DARBAR ARTS CULTURE AND HERITAGE TRUST income £1.3m
• BRADFORD ARTS CENTRE LTD income £3.6m
• SEETA PATEL DANCE LIMITED income £350k
• SOUTH ASIAN CONCERN CHARITABLE TRUST income £143k

Side by side with its peers

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