# THE ANCIENT INDIA AND IRAN TRUST

## Details

- **Country:** England & Wales
- **Charity number:** 1162982
- **Other names:** ANCIENT INDIA AND IRAN TRUST, AIIT
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** CIO
- **Registered:** Aug. 4, 2015
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=1162982


## Contact

- **Address:** 23 Brooklands Avenue, Cambridge
- **Postcode:** CB2 8BG
- **Phone:** 07974168572
- **Email:** ah69@soas.ac.uk
- **Website:** www.indiran.org



## Activities

**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.

**Activities:** 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.




## Classification

- **How:** Makes Grants To Individuals, Provides Services, Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
- **What:** Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science
- **Who:** The General Public/mankind



## Areas of operation

- Throughout England And Wales



## Finances

| Period end | Income | Expenditure | Assets | Employees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 31, 2025 | £161394 | £167725 | — | — |
| April 1, 2024 | £114629 | £95994 | — | — |
| April 1, 2023 | £84620 | £126714 | — | — |
| April 1, 2022 | £73313 | £82045 | — | — |
| April 1, 2021 | £72738 | £83329 | — | — |



## Trustees

- **A. HINTZE** (Chair) — appointed May 8, 1999
- C. PETRIE — appointed April 9, 2011
- C. VAN RUYMBEKE — appointed May 10, 2008
- Dr Piers Howard Burton Baker — appointed Oct. 14, 2022
- Jo Cribb — appointed Nov. 1, 2016
- N SIMS-WILLIAMS — appointed May 9, 1992
- S. LIEU — appointed May 13, 2011
- SIR NICHOLAS John BARRINGTON — appointed May 12, 1990
- T RICHARD BLURTON MA — appointed May 9, 2002
- U. SIMS-WILLIAMS — appointed May 8, 2004