## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** ## **From 01 August 2021 Period start date To 31 July 2022 Period end date** **Charity name:** Association of Southeast Asian Studies in the United Kingdom ## **Charity registration number:** 1170590 ## **Objectives and Activities** ||SORP
reference|| |---|---|---| |Summary of the purposes of
the charity as set out in its
governing document|Para 1.17|The overall object of ASEAS(UK) is to
advance the education of the public on the
subject of Southeast Asia and to promote
research for the public benefit in all
disciplines of that subject and to disseminate
the useful results by such means as the
trustees see fit.| |Summary of the main
activities in relation to those
purposes for the public
benefit, in particular, the
activities, projects or services
identified in the accounts.|Para 1.17
and 1.19|**Digital Impact Award**
When COVID impacted international travel,
in 2021 the Executive Committee decided to
offer a Digital Impact Award instead of
running the Research Impact Awards, which
fund travel to conferences and research
visits to Southeast Asia.
The aim of the Digital Impact Award was to
support the creation of a digital project
based on research or a project that has
already been conducted in Southeast Asia.
This could be a film, or a website or another
artistic project to help researchers
communicate their research in a new way
and to non-academic audiences.
The first Digital Impact Award was launched
in Spring 2021 and the first recipient was Dr.
Charlie Rumsby who used the award to
create a short film entitled ‘Drive to School’,
which documents the motivations of young
Christian missionaries who are striving to
bring education and hope to Cambodia’s
stateless children. The film recently
premiered at the historic Coventry Cathedral,
as part of the _Rising Global Peace Forum_.
Charlie has also submitted the film to a
number of film festivals so hopefully we will
be seeing more of it soon.
At the end of 2021 ASEAS opened a call for
another round of applications, with the 2022
award going to Kellynn Wee, a PhD
researcher in the Department of| Anthropology at University College London. Kellynn is using the funds to develop a roleplaying game set in Singapore that invites players to speculate about climate futures through the ethos of applied hope. Following the easing of travel restrictions in Autumn 2022 ASEAS re-launched the Research Impact Award alongside the Digital Impact Award, with applicants invited to apply for either. **Master’s Dissertation Prize** In early 2022 we launched a new Master’s Dissertation Prize to showcase outstanding humanities and social science research on Southeast Asia from postgraduate students across the world. This year’s prize was awarded to Amanda Muñoz Gamage. Amanda’s dissertation, entitled ‘Enacting FPAR in Human Rights Organizations: practices, challenges and tensions’, was submitted as part of her MSc in Human Rights, which she completed in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics in 2021. We recently opened another call for submissions, which closes at the end of January 2023. **ASEAS(UK) Conference** Much of 2022 was spent organising the biennial ASEAS(UK) Conference, which took place online via the Zoom platform from the 8[th] to 10[th] September 2022. On Zoom we welcomed over 80 scholars from around sixteen countries to our first conference since the pandemic. The decision to host the conference on Zoom rather than in-person was due to the unpredictability of the pandemic situation but doing so also made it much more accessible to scholars based within Southeast Asia. It also reflected the organisation’s climate awareness, as it becomes increasingly difficult to justify taking long flights for a twoday conference trip. The conference opened with a fantastic keynote from Professor Jonathan Rigg (University of Bristol), who delivered his keynote from the field in Nepal, and emphasised the importance of moving outside of individual disciplines in order to approach an understanding of Southeast Asia. The three days saw a series of talks, roundtables and workshops on a range of topics and closed with a second keynote by Dr Maitrii Aung-Thwin (National University of Singapore), who talked about moving |||towards a more public Southeast Asian
Studies.| |---|---|---| |Statement confirming
whether the trustees have
had regard to the guidance
issued by the Charity
Commission on public
benefit|Para 1.18|ASEAS Trustees have had due regard to the
Charity Commission’s public benefit
guidance.| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: ||SORP
reference|| |---|---|---| |Policy on grant making|Para 1.38|In accordance with ASEAS(UK) Constitution
clause 18(1) (Delegation by charity trustees),
the Executive Committee shall appoint a
Research Committee of three members, at
least one of whom should also be a member
of the Executive Committee. The Executive
Committee shall appoint the Chair and
Secretary of the Research Committee for the
purpose of raising research funds and
deciding upon their allocation on behalf of
ASEAS(UK).| |Policy on social investment
including program related
investment|Para 1.38|| |Contribution made by
volunteers|Para 1.38|| |Other||| ## **Achievements and Performance** SORP reference |Summary of the main
achievements of the charity,
identifying the difference the
charity’s work has made to
the circumstances of its
beneficiaries and any wider
benefits to society as a
whole.|Para 1.20|**Digital Impact Award**
The Spring 2022 Digital Impact Award is
funding the development of a roleplaying
game set in Singapore that invites players to
speculate about climate futures through the
ethos of applied hope. Applied hope games
draw from a burgeoning creative movement
that seeks to imagine utopic futures through
genres such as solarpunk and hopepunk in
opposition to dystopic worlds founded on
apocalypse and despair. These games can
conjure a space of playfulness, openness,
and potentiality in our relationship to the
future; by doing so, they create imaginative
latitude for action and change in the present.
The game module has potential as a
pedagogical tool for educators to use to
draw students into conversations about
topics such as climate change and the
imagination of alternative futures.
Furthermore, in Singapore, futures work
carried out by policymakers often depend on
simulation and games are frequently used in
policy forecasting.
**Website**
The ASEAS website continues to publish
reviews of books, encompassing a range of
Southeast Asian Studies topics. This is an
invaluable tool for researchers, particularly at
a time when traditional journals are
publishing fewer reviews.
**Member Newsletter**
The bi-monthly membership newsletter is an
invaluable addition to the ASEAS
membership offering, providing information
on opportunities, the latest research, as well
as highlighting the achievements of
members, including recent publications,
awards and grants.
**Membership and Social Media**
We currently have 161 members, which is
an increase of 29 from last year’s report.
This is mainly due to the online conference,
which is the first we have held since the
pandemic.
Online, Facebook group membership has
increased to 5500 members and 1084
Twitter followers. Our social media pages
provide a lively forum for news and
discussion between academics and
interested members of the public across the
UK and Southeast Asia.| |---|---|---| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Achievements against
objectives set|Para 1.41|| |---|---|---| |Performance of fundraising
activities against objectives
set|Para 1.41|| |Investment performance
against objectives|Para 1.41|| |Other||| ## **Financial Review** |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|Total of £18,346,00 in assets at the end of
the period.
Income of £2,454.00 against a total
expenditure of £4,916.00. Annual loss of
£2,462.00.| |---|---|---| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
statingwhytheyare held|Para 1.22|The charity does not have a reserves policy.| |Amount of reserves held|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Reasons for holding zero
reserves|Para 1.22|**N/A**| |Details of fund materially in
deficit|Para 1.24|**N/A**| |Explanation of any
uncertainties about the
charity continuing as a going
concern|Para 1.23|Although we have spent marginally less this
year, we have also made less. If the
organisation wants to continue to offer
competitive research awards, ASEASUK
needs to find long-term, sustainable ways of
generating income in order to remain
financially viable. We need to gain and retain
members as a way of propping the
organization up financially. Other potential
income streams such as journals, events,
and conferences should be encouraged and
monetized as fully as possible in order to
keep the charity ticking over whilst still
raising our profile.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |The charity’s principal
sources of funds (including
any fundraising)|Para 1.47|Membership fees and the bi-annual
conference.| |---|---|---| |Investment policy and
objectives including any
social investment policy
adopted|Para 1.46|| |A description of the principal
risks facing the charity|Para 1.46|| |Other||| ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed,royal charter)|Para 1.25|Constitution| |How is the charity
constituted?
(e.g unincorporated
association,CIO)|Para 1.25|Charitable Incorporated Organisation| |Trustee selection methods
including details of any
constitutional provisions e.g.
election to post or name of
any person or body entitled
to appoint one or more
trustees|Para 1.25|Members of the Executive Committee of
ASEAS(UK) will become trustees of
ASEAS(UK) on first election to the Executive
Committee (unless they are ineligible for one
of the reasons described in clause (2) below)
and will remain a trustee until they leave the
Executive Committee.
The Executive Committee will manage the
affairs of ASEAS(UK) and may for that
purpose exercise all the powers of
ASEAS(UK).
**(2) Eligibility for trusteeship**
•
Every charity trustee must be a
natural person.
•
Membership of the Executive
Committee (including renewal of
Executive Committee membership) is
through nomination and support of
two other full members of
ASEAS(UK).
•
Each nominee must have been a full
member of ASEASUK for at least a
year prior to being nominated.
•
No one may be appointed as a
charity trustee:
- if he or she is under the age of 16
years; or
- if he or she would automatically
cease to hold office under the
provisions of clause 15(1)(d).
•
No-one is entitled to act as a charity
trustee whether on appointment or on
any re-appointment until he or she
has expressly acknowledged, in
whatever way the charity trustees
decide, his or her acceptance of the
office of charitytrustee.| ## **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: |Policies and procedures
adopted for the induction and
training of trustees|Para 1.51|| |---|---|---| |||| |The charity’s organisational
structure and any wider
network with which the
charity works|Para 1.51|| |---|---|---| |Relationship with any related
parties|Para 1.51|| |Other||| ## **Reference and Administrative details** |Charity name|Association of Southeast Asian Studies in the United
Kingdom| |---|---| |Other name the charity uses|ASEAS(UK)| |Registered charitynumber|1170590| |Charity’s principal address|Centre of South East Asian Studies
SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
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20|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for**
**whole year**|**Name of person (or body)**
**entitled to appoint trustee**
**(if any)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Adam Tyson|Chair||| ||KimberleyWeir|Secretary||| ||Elliot Newbold|Treasurer||| ||Tilman Frasch|||| ||Deirdre McKay|||| ||Laurie Parsons|||| ||Jessica Rahardjo|||| ||Charlie Rumsby|||| ||Pon
Souvannaseng|||| ||Russell Yap|||| ||Nicole CuUnjieng
Aboitiz||From November 2021|| ||Dylan Gaffney||From November 2021|| ||Thomas Kingston||From November 2021|| ||Ben Murtagh||From November 2021|| ||Mulaika Hijjas||To November 2021|| ||Catherine Allerton||To March 2022|| |||||| |||||| |||||| |||||| – Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved **Director name** Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity |**Trustee name**|**Dates acted if not for**
**wholeyear**|| |---|---|---| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |||| **Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others** Description of the assets held in this capacity Name and objects of the charity on whose behalf the assets are held and how this falls within the custodian charity’s objects Details of arrangements for safe custody and segregation of such assets from the charity’s own assets ## **Additional information (optional)** ## **Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)** **Type of Name Address adviser** **Name of chief executive or names of senior staff members (Optional information)** ## **Exemptions from disclosure** Reason for non-disclosure of key personnel details ## **Other optional information** **Declarations** **The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.** **Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees** |**Signature(s)**
**Full name(s)**
**Position (eg Secretary,**
**Chair, etc)**
**Date**||| |---|---|---| ||Kimberley Weir|Elliot Newbold| ||

Secretary|Treasurer| ||26.01.2022|| ||26.01.2022|| **Association of Southeast Asian Studies (UK)** **1170590** **Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period** Period start date Period end date **To from** 31/7/21 31/7/22 ## **Section A Receipts and payments** |**Section A Receipts and payments**|**Section A Receipts and payments**||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**A1 Receipts**
MembershipPayments
**2,450**
Gross Interest
**4**
Research Award Reimburse
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for AR)_**2,454**
**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total receipts_ 2,454**
**A3 Payments**
Research Awards
**1,650**
Stipend
**3,000**
Expenses
Reimburse for Services
**211**
Picture rights damages
Bank charges
**35**
Membershiprefund
**20**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ 4,916**
**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**_Total payments_ 4,916**
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**- 2,462**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**-**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**20,808**
**_Cash funds this year end_ 18,346**||**Restricted funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Endowment**
**funds**
**to the nearest £**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**|**Total funds**
**to the nearest £**
**2,450**
**4**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,454**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**2,454**
**1,650**
**3,000**
**-**
**211**
**-**
**35**
**20**
**-**
**-**
**4,916**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**4,916**
**- 2,462**
**-**
**20,808**
**18,346**|**Last year**
**to the nearest £**| ||||||**2,443**| ||||||**2**| ||||||**1,000**| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**3,445**| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||| ||||||**3,445**| ||||||| ||||||**1,000**| ||||||**3,000**| ||||||**559**| ||||||**376**| ||||||**420**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**-**| ||||||**5,355**| ||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**|||||| ||**-**||||| ||**-**||||| |**_Sub total_ **|**-**||||**-**| |**_Total payments_ **
**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_ **|||||| ||||||**5,355**| ||||||| ||**- 2,462**|**-**|**-**|**- 2,462**|**- 1,910**| ||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**| ||**20,808**|**-**|**-**|**20,808**|**-**| ||**18,346**|**-**|**-**|**18,346**|**- 1,910**| ## **Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period** |||||||||**Unrestricted**|**Unrestricted**|||||**Restricted funds**|**Restricted funds**|**Restricted funds**|||||**Endowment**||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**Categories**||**Details**|||||**funds**|||||||||||||**funds**||| |||||||||**to nearest**|**£**||||||**to nearest £**||||||**to nearest £**||| |**B1**|**Cash funds**|Community Account|||||||**1,699**||||||**-**||||||**-**||| |||Business Account||||||**16,647**|||||||**-**||||||**-**||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||**-**||||||**-**||||||**-**||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||**_Total cash funds_**||||**18,346**|||||||**-**||||||**-**||| |||||(agree balances with receipts and payments|||||||||||||||||||| |||||account(s))|||OK|||||||OK||||||OK|||| |||||||||**Unrestricted**||||||**Restricted funds**|||||||**Endowment**||| |||||||||**funds**|||||||||||||**funds**||| ||CCXX R1 accounts (SS)|**Details**||~~1~~||||**to nearest**|**£**||||||**to nearest £**||||||26/1/23
**to nearest £**||| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) |**B2 Other monetary assets**||||||**-**|||||**-**|||**-**|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||||||||||||| |||||||**-**|||||**-**|||**-**|| ||||||||||||||||| |||||||**-**|||||**-**|||**-**|| ||||||||||||||||| |||||||**-**|||||**-**|||**-**|| ||||||||||||||||| |||||||**-**|||||**-**|||**-**|| ||||||||||||||||| |||||||**-**|||||**-**|||**-**|| ||||||||||||||||| ||**Details**||||**Fund to which asset**
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**(optional)**|| |**B4 Assets retained for the**|||||||||||**-**|||**-**|| |**charity’s own use**|||||||||||**-**|||**-**|| ||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||**-**|||**-**|| ||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||**-**|||**-**|| ||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||**-**|||**-**|| ||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||**-**|||**-**|| ||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||**-**|||**-**|| ||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||**-**|||**-**|| ||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||**-**|||**-**|| ||||||||||||||||| |||||||**Fund to which**||||**Amount due**||||**When due**|| ||**Details**|||||**liability relates**||||**(optional)**||||**(optional)**|| |**B5 Liabilities**|||||||||||**-**||||| ||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||**-**||||| ||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||**-**||||| ||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||**-**||||| ||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||**-**||||| ||||||||||||||||| |Signed by one or two trustees on behalf
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