THE KARTA INITIATIVE

Registered charity 1173020 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as KARTA

As a social mobility movement for the "bottom billion", we aim to transform the life outcomes of impoverished high-potential young people in developing/emerging countries. We widen access to world-class educational and professional opportunity: engaging human, technology and financial capital, to dismantle barriers of exposure, information, infrastructure, skills, finance and social networks.

Objects

THE OBJECT OF THE CIO IS TO ADVANCE EDUCATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY WIDENING ACCESS TO WORLD-CLASS HIGHER EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG PERSONS FROM FINANCIALLY DISADVANTAGED BACKGROUNDS IN DEVELOPING AND EMERGING COUNTRIES.?

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: South Oxfordshire, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £52,797 for the year, which was funded from existing reserves, reducing total funds from £593,259 to £540,462. Despite this reduction, the Trustees consider the charity to remain in a strong financial position with sufficient reserves to support ongoing operations. The unrestricted reserves held were £306,221, which is above the stated policy target of covering six months of operating costs.

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 policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2025 (received 13/02/2026, 13 days after the 31/01/2026 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anup Mysoorchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Arun Kumar
• Priyamvada Sharma
• Snigdha Singh · trustee of 1 other charity
• Stephen Tall
• Vibhav Nuwal

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

Operates in: Canada · India · Throughout England And Wales · United States

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE TALENT FOUNDRY TRUST.

• THE TALENT FOUNDRY TRUST income £2.0m
• B@TITUDE LIMITED income £102k
• GLOBAL POVERTY PROJECT UK income £1.6m
• MAKE A WELL CHARITY income £85k
• PARTNERSHIP FOR GROWTH income £1.3m
• COMPASSION IN ACTION income £801k

Side by side with its peers

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