SAMPAD (SOUTH ASIAN ARTS DEVELOPMENT)

Registered charity 1088995 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as SAMPAD

sampad exists to develop a deep and distinctive structure of South Asian arts in Birmingham and Britain through production, promotion, advocacy, education and outreach activity. sampad aims to be inclusive in all its practices and will be as concerned with the pursuit of excellence as it will be with widening access.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN AND ADVANCE EDUCATION BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT AND INTERPRETATION OF ARTS, PARTICULARLY, THOUGH NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THE ARTS ORIGINATING FROM SOUTH ASIA, INCLUDING THE ARTS OF MUSIC AND DANCE, AND BY THE RESEARCH INTO THE HERITAGE OF COMMUNITIES, NOT LIMITED TO ASIAN COMMUNITIES.WITHOUT LIMITATION TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING TO CO-ORDINATE AND TO SUPPORT THE SERVICES PROVIDED FOR THE PROMOTION, EDUCATION AND ENCOURAGEMENT AND INTERPRETATION OF ARTS AND HERITAGE, PARTICULARLY THE ARTS ORIGINATING FROM SOUTH ASIA, THEREBY BOTH INCREASING ARTS RELATED ACTIVITY AND INCREASING THE LEVEL OF AWARENESS AND APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS AND IN PARTICULAR THE ARTS ORIGINATING FROM SOUTH ASIA.

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.

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Registered contact address: Birmingham, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net movement of funds of -48,160 for the year ended 31 March 2026, compared to a deficit of -73,004 in the prior year. Total incoming resources were 392,344, while total resources expended were 437,504. The unrestricted and undesignated funds balance at the end of the year was 322,526.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited. Discloses 2 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
• Conflicting interests
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2024)

Reported reserves equal ~10.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (72% 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: 4.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Navnit Kaur Pallchair
• BARRY MATTHEWS · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr Ananta Dave · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr Mahnaz Hashmi
• Emma May Margetson
• Gurdip Singh Bhangoo
• JONATHAN MICHAEL COANE
• NASHEIMA SHEIKH
• PARESH SOLANKI · trustee of 1 other charity
• Satnam Kaur Rana-Grindley
• Shahmima Akhtar

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PYRAMID OF ARTS.

• PYRAMID OF ARTS income £342k
• SUBRANG ARTS income £93k
• ARTS IN THE YARD income £177k
• ASYMMETRY ART FOUNDATION income £5.6m
• SOUTH ASIAN ARTS-UK income £834k
• AKADEMI SOUTH ASIAN DANCE UK income £490k

Side by side with its peers

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