KUSUMA TRUST UK

Registered charity 1126983 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Kusuma Trust UK is a family-led trust making philanthropic investments in the community around us. We give grants to causes, organisations and people that are making a positive difference to society. We choose partners based on our shared values and mutual interests of creating access to opportunities, improving health and well-being, and investing in our communities and environment.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ( THE OBJECTS ) ARE ALL PURPOSES THAT ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE UNDER THE LAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES.

Area of benefit: UNDEFINED, IN PRACTICE, NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Camden, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total funds increased to £578,817,166, driven by a significant net gain on investments of £48,068,203. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £728,344, which the Trustees plan to spend as programmes develop, while the primary funding source remains the investment income from expendable endowment funds. The Trustees report no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Dixon Wilson Audit Services LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from unclear (FY2024) to Over £60,000 (FY2025).
• Employees paid over £60,000: 2 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 06753811 · Financial health read from its filings

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Peter Isola — Trustee (source)
• Soma Pujari — Executive Trustee (source)
• Anurag Dikshit — Trustee (source)
• Nitin Jain — Trustee (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• JAIN, Nitin Dass — director, appointed 05/07/2017on trustee list
• DIKSHIT, Anurag — director, appointed 01/07/2011on trustee list
• PUJARI, Soma — director, appointed 19/11/2008on trustee list
• ARTHURSON, Andrew Richard — secretary, appointed 26/06/2018

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~1.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (100% 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: 36.5% of total income — above the 90th percentile for charities its size (median 5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANURAG DIKSHIT
• Manu Dixit
• Nitin Dass Jain
• SOMA PUJARI

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

Operates in: Gibraltar · India · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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 SUTASOMA TRUST.

• THE SUTASOMA TRUST income £134k
• RSM UK FOUNDATION income £1.2m
• CULLUM FAMILY TRUST income £788k
• KISIMA FOUNDATION income £35k
• CUMBRIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION income £11.5m
• KTRUST LIMITED income £240k

Side by side with its peers

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