THE ANCIENT INDIA AND IRAN TRUST

Charity number: 1162982
Charity reporting is up to date (on time)

Charity overview

Activities - how the charity spends its money

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.

Income and expenditure

Data for financial year ending 01 April 2024

Total income: £114,629
Total expenditure: £95,994

People

11 Trustee(s)

2 Volunteer(s)

Employees with total benefits over £60,000

No employees have total benefits over £60k for this charity

Fundraising

No information available

Trading

This charity does not have any trading subsidiaries.

Trustee payments

No trustees receive any remuneration, payments or benefits from the charity.

What, who, how, where

What the charity does:
  • Education/training
  • Arts/culture/heritage/science
Who the charity helps:
  • The General Public/mankind
How the charity helps:
  • Makes Grants To Individuals
  • Provides Services
  • Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
Where the charity operates:
  • Throughout England And Wales

Governance

Registration history:
  • 04 August 2015: CIO registration
  • 18 November 2016: Funds received from 276295 THE ANCIENT INDIA AND IRAN TRUST
Organisation type:
CIO
Other names:
  • AIIT (Working name)
  • ANCIENT INDIA AND IRAN TRUST (Previous name)
Gift aid:
Recognised by HMRC for gift aid
Other regulators:
No information available
Policies:
  • 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 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
  • Volunteer management
Land and property:
This charity does not own and/or lease land or property

Trustees

Trustees are the people responsible for controlling the work, management and administration of the charity on behalf of its beneficiaries. Generally trustees are treasurer, chair, board member etc. The trustees are responsible for keeping this list up to date and can do this by updating their details as they happen through the online service

11 Trustee(s)

Name Role Date of appointment Other trusteeships Reporting status of other trusteeships
A. HINTZE Chair 08 May 1999
CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM IRANICARUM
Received: On time
Dr Piers Howard Burton Baker Trustee 14 October 2022
CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM IRANICARUM
Received: On time
Jo Cribb Trustee 01 November 2016
None on record
J. LIPNER Trustee 19 May 2012
None on record
S. LIEU Trustee 13 May 2011
None on record
C. PETRIE Trustee 09 April 2011
None on record
C. VAN RUYMBEKE Trustee 10 May 2008
None on record
U. SIMS-WILLIAMS Trustee 08 May 2004
None on record
T RICHARD BLURTON MA Trustee 09 May 2002
None on record
N SIMS-WILLIAMS Trustee 09 May 1992
CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM IRANICARUM
Received: On time
SIR NICHOLAS John BARRINGTON Trustee 12 May 1990
VIQUARAN NISA NOON AND FIROZ KHAN NOON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
Received: On time

Financial history

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Financial period end date

Income / Expenditure 01/04/2020 01/04/2021 01/04/2022 01/04/2023 01/04/2024
Total gross income £98.32k £72.74k £73.31k £84.62k £114.63k
Total expenditure £86.53k £83.33k £82.05k £126.71k £95.99k
Income from government contracts N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Income from government grants N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Accounts and annual returns

This table shows the charity's record of submitting annual returns, accounts and trustees' annual report (TAR) for the last five financial periods.
Title Reporting year Date received Received Download
Annual return 01 April 2024 20 October 2024 On Time
Accounts and TAR 01 April 2024 20 October 2024 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 01 April 2023 20 May 2024 109 days late
Accounts and TAR 01 April 2023 20 May 2024 109 days late Download Open in new window
Annual return 01 April 2022 19 January 2023 On Time
Accounts and TAR 01 April 2022 19 January 2023 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 01 April 2021 16 December 2021 On Time
Accounts and TAR 01 April 2021

(These accounts
have been qualified)

16 December 2021 On Time Download Open in new window
Annual return 01 April 2020 15 December 2020 On Time
Accounts and TAR 01 April 2020 15 December 2020 On Time Download Open in new window
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Governing document

Details of the type of governing document the charity has and when it was established.
It is not the full text of the charity's governing document.

CIO - Foundation Registered 04 Aug 2015

Charitable 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.

Contact information

Address:
23 Brooklands Avenue
Cambridge
CB2 8BG
Phone:
07974168572
Email:
ah69@soas.ac.uk
Website:

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