Overall GiG Score: 23 ?
Finance Score: 6
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 11
  • Liabilities <10%: +3
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +11

AKADEMI SOUTH ASIAN DANCE UK 

Akademi - South Asian Dance UK exists to promote understanding, appreciation and excellence in South Asian dance through education, community work with disadvantaged people, performance, dance development, resources and public services.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has a robust balance sheet
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender
Established: 19 years

www.akademi.co.uk

info@akademi.co.uk

02076913210

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£510£471£40£8£442£3629.203
31/03/22£416£371£45n/an/an/an/an/a5
31/03/21£379£364£15n/an/an/an/an/a0
31/03/20£426£419£7n/an/an/an/an/a2
31/03/19£532£547£-15£28£337£2786.160
31/03/18£640£706£-65£38£352£2714.690
31/03/17£456£443£13£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£405£409£-3£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/15£382£348£34£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/14£311£358£-46£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£474£412£62£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£404£501£-98£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£696£615£81£85£456£3937.7100
31/03/10£768£662£106£59£375£3265.980
31/03/09*£484£474£10£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/08£551£457£95£72£259£2095.570
31/03/07£456£492£-36£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/06£457£410£47£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 1.6%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 1.7%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 7%
Liabilities/Income: 6%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 82%
Reserves/Spending: 9.2 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 11 months
Quick Ratio: 13.2
Asset Split ?
What it does
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Recreation
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Who works here?
  • 3 volunteers
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • Other Defined Groups
  • People Of A Particular Ethnic Or Racial Origin
  • People With Disabilities
  • The General Public/Mankind
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Throughout England And Wales,

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£283,285
DCMS£218,956
National Lottery Heritage Fund£98,700
City Bridge Trust£70,000
John Lyon's Charity£59,700
BBC Children in Need£30,500
National Lottery Community Fund£9,825
Community Foundation for Surrey£6,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Reach Out and Reveal 2022
£18,285 18/01/2023
Akademi is a South Asian-led dance organisation, connecting communities with South Asian dance forms in formal and informal learning settings. This grant supports the delivery of Reach Out and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Writer's Room
£9,825 09/12/2022
The funding will be used to continue running creative writing group sessions for young people. The project will enable the young people to express themselves reducing anxieties and building ....more
John Lyon's Charity - Cultural Capital grant to Akademi
£19,700 17/11/2022
Maitri (A Hindi word meaning friendship, pronounced: My-tree)
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Akademi South Asian Dance UK
£30,500 31/01/2022
This project will deliver South Asian movement sessions for autistic children and young people in Surrey. The activities will result in improved self-expression, positive relationships with their ....more
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Akademi South Asian Dance UK
£70,000 12/01/2022
24
£70,000 over two further and final years (£35,000; £35,000) as a contribution towards the Dance Well project manager, dance artists and associated project running costs.
Community Foundation for Surrey - Reach Out and Reveal at Papillon House
£6,500 08/10/2021
11
Funding towards a dance and arts project for children with profound autism at a special school in East Surrey
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Reach Out and Reveal 2022
£265,000 04/10/2021
36
Akademi is a South Asian-led dance organisation, connecting communities with South Asian dance forms in formal and informal learning settings. This grant supports the delivery of Reach Out and ....more
DCMS - National portfolio organisation 2018 - 2022
£218,956 01/04/2020
We are the national development agency for creativity and culture. We have set out our strategic vision in Lets Create that by 2030 we want England to be a country in which the creativity of each of ....more
John Lyon's Charity - Main grant to Akademi
£40,000 11/03/2020
24
Reach Out and Reveal Project
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Akademi South Asian Dance UK
£98,700 05/11/2019
Akademi at 40 - archiving 40 years of Akademi's South Asian dance heritage
City Bridge Trust - Grant to Akademi South Asian Dance UK
£105,000 31/01/2019
36
£105,000 over three years (£35,000; £35,000; £35,000) towards the Dance Well project manager, dance artists and associated project running costs.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Akademi
£30,000 22/11/2018
36
This 3-year project is for 60 children on the autistic spectrum with moderate to severe learning difficulties to have fun and learn how to express themselves through South Asian Dance.
National Lottery Community Fund - Kopal
£10,000 06/12/2017
12
This project will offer a dance programme for children, designed to develop their understanding of different cultures. It will bring children together to exercise and have fun while increasing their ....more
Ministry of Defence - Local Grants 2017/18
£20,000 01/04/2017
Community Integration and Local Service Delivery
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Reach Out and Reveal
£53,815 30/01/2017
18
Akademi wants to deliver a programme in two schools for children with Autistic Spectrum Conditions (ASC), exploring how dance can be more successfully delivered for ASC pupils and how the movement ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - DanceWell
£266,827 09/09/2015
35
This is a new project to deliver dance based activities to the wider, but especially BME communities. This project will offer a programme of movement workshops helping disadvantaged older people with ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Akademi South Asian Dance UK
£90,000 29/01/2014
Towards developing and establishing a programme of artist development, supporting new ways of working and building business.
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How is it governed?

Trustees (10)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 9/10 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 47-71
  • ADAM PUSHKIN Appointed: 2015, Occupation: British Council Officer
  • KEITH KHAN (Chair) Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Artist
  • SARAH ROBSON Appointed: 2016, Occupation: Human Resources Consultant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 14/12/2004, number: 1107249
  • Registered at Companies House on 23/11/2004, number: 05294528
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • 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
Filing Record
18 returns made; AR09: 10 days late,
Main office

Akademi
Interchange Studios
Hampstead Town Hall Centre
213 Haverstock Hill
LONDON

Objectives

To advance the arts for the public benefit, in particular by the promotion of South Asian dance forms, and generally by the promotion of the performing arts.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL

Data Sources

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