THE SOUTH ASIAN DECORATIVE ARTS AND CRAFTS COLLECTION TRUST

Registered charity 1137415 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as THE SOUTH ASIAN DECORATIVE ARTS AND CRAFTS TRUST

The objects of the charity are:- the advancement of education for the public benefit in the everyday arts and crafts and cultural items of South Asia and its neighbouring countries by establishing and maintaining a collection of such arts and crafts.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £2,376,280, which exceeds its stated policy target of maintaining sufficient reserves to cover expected expenditure for the following twelve months. The accounts were subject to an independent examination rather than a full audit, with the examiner reporting no material matters of concern. The charity demonstrates financial stability with a significant surplus in fund balances carried forward.

Automated summary of the FY2024 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.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Philip Millward — Founder and Trustee (source)
• Jeannie Millward — Founder and Trustee (source)
• Richard Everitt — Trustee, The SADACC Trust CIO (source)
• Simon Kaner — Trustee, The SADACC Trust CIO (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Country & Eastern — “Country & Eastern supports the livelihoods of the craftspeople in the countries we work in as well as the work of the museum.” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (1 freehold); recorded price paid £400k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (91% 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: 0.6% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr PHILIP ARTHUR MILLWARDchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ELIZABETH JEAN MILLWARD · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: India · Norfolk

Income and spending

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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 ART ASIA TRUST LIMITED.

• ART ASIA TRUST LIMITED income £277k
• SOUTH ASIAN ARTS-UK income £834k
• SOUTH ASIAN CONCERN CHARITABLE TRUST income £143k
• DARBAR ARTS CULTURE AND HERITAGE TRUST income £1.3m
• GO HELP ASIA TRUST income £265k
• ARTSWORK LIMITED income £1.9m

Side by side with its peers

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