THE ANCIENT INDIA AND IRAN TRUST

Registered charity 1162982 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as AIIT, ANCIENT INDIA AND IRAN TRUST

Established in 1978, the Ancient India & Iran Trust occupies a unique position as an independent charity concerned with the prehistory, languages, and art & archaeology of early South Asia, Iran and Central Asia. Promoting both scholarly research and popular interest, we have a library of over 50,000 items and organise conferences, public lectures and visiting fellowships.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN THE INDO-IRANIAN LANGUAGES AND THEIR HISTORY, AND OF THE EARLY CULTURES OF THE INDIAN AND IRANIAN WORLDS PARTICULARLY AS REPRESENTED BY THE PREHISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY, ART HISTORY AND ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE REGIONS INVOLVED.

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 holds unrestricted reserves of £1,061,162 against a policy intention to spend annual income while maintaining the real value of designated funds. The trustees note that their primary responsibility remains the library until sufficient funding is raised to guarantee its continuity, indicating a dependency on future fundraising. The charity is not audited but subject to independent examination, with no material uncertainties reported.

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 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
• 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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

Property (HM Land Registry)

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

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Register events

• Received assets from another charity (18/11/2016) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• A. HINTZEchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• C. PETRIE
• C. VAN RUYMBEKE
• Dr Arash Zeini
• Dr Piers Howard Burton Baker · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jo Cribb
• N SIMS-WILLIAMS · trustee of 1 other charity
• S. LIEU
• SIR NICHOLAS John BARRINGTON
• T RICHARD BLURTON MA
• U. SIMS-WILLIAMS

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

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Government & lottery funding

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