## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From** 01 August 2024 **Period start date To** 31 July 2025 **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|**Research Impact Award**
The 2024-25 Research Impact Award,
which is awarded annually to members of
ASEAS to support research and impact
activities in Southeast Asian Studies, was
awarded to Ci Yan Sara Loh (University
of Hawai‘i at Mānoa) for their project ‘Songs
of the Temuan of Bukit Tadom:
Documenting Echoes and Rhythms of Land
and Life Along the Lower Langat River’. The
project will see the creation of a bilingual
(English and Malay) song book, that
documents, using photographs, illustrations
and creative texts, Temuan song and
dance.
**Master’s Dissertation Prize**
The 2024/2025 ASEAS Master’s
Dissertation Prize was awarded to Vincen
Gregory Yu. Vincen’s dissertation
‘Monolithic medicine: Unsettling vaccine
hesitancy in COVID-era
Philippines’, was submitted as part of their
MA in Anthropology at the University of
Sydney in 2024.
Vincen’s dissertation provides a much-
needed departure from existing debates on
vaccine hesitancy in the Philippines (and
the larger Southeast Asian region), which
have tended to ascribe hesitancy to
misinformation, conspiracy theories, belief
in traditional medical systems, and the
public’s so-called‘misunderstanding of| |||science’. The significant contribution of this
thesis lies in its explication of the role of
power—in public health governance, and in
people’s everyday encounters with the
health system—in shaping ordinary citizens’
decisions to delay or reject vaccinations.
The ASEAS Master’s Dissertation Prize
showcases outstanding humanities and
social science research on Southeast Asia
from postgraduate students across the
world.
**International PhD Workshop**
Sponsored by the University of Leeds, the
2025 ASEAS International PhD Workshop
was hosted by Srinakharinwirot University,
Bangkok, Thailand and took place from 20–
21 May 2025. Twenty-four PhD students
from across Southeast Asia, Australia and
Europe participated in the workshop,
alongside six academic advisors.
This international PhD workshop provided
an excellent opportunity for current and
prospective PhD students to receive an
intensive review of chapters and proposals
by senior advisors. It was a great way for
participants to meet like-minded PhD
students and experts working in Southeast
Asia, to exchange views on cutting edge
research and the most critical issues of the
day. Participants also benefitted from
additional skills sessions on ‘career
development’ and ‘how to get published’.
The next workshop will take place from 30-
31 July 2026 and is hosted by Monash
University Malaysia.
**ASEAS Biannual Conference**
The 33rd Association of Southeast Asian
Studies conference was held at St John’s
College, University of Cambridge from 15-
17 September 2025 and will be reported on
in the next Annual Report.| |---|---|---| |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). Para 1.38 Policy on social investment including program related investment Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers 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|**Awards and Prizes**
The Research Impact Award awards £1500
per year to an early career scholar to
undertake fieldwork in Southeast Asia,
fostering new research and publications,
whilst advancing their career. The RIA also
supports the development or dissemination
of a film, audio piece, website, or other
artistic project to communicate research
outside of academia and to engage
broader audiences with the Southeast
Asian Studies community. The Master’s
Dissertation Prize provides a small financial
reward (£150 to the winning dissertation
author) but significantly raises the profile of
Master’s students. They are also awarded
a free ASEAS membership, enabling them
to foster new connections and networks.
**Conference**
The biannual ASEAS conferences are an
invaluable opportunity for Southeast Asia-
focused researchers to network and
present their research. They also provide a
chance for early career scholars to build
their profile and establish important
connections. Work presented at the
conferences covers a range of topics
across eras, geographies and disciplines
and has the potential to reshape the wider| field of Southeast Asian Studies. The 2025 conference was held in the UK but included a day for online presentations which made it much more accessible to the Southeast Asia-based Southeast Asian Studies community. **Member Newsletter** The 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 489 members, which is more than double the figure reported in last year’s Annual Report. This increase is due to the 2025 Conference at the University of Cambridge, which attracted nearly 300 in person attendees and 120 online attendees. The Facebook page has 6,724 followers, which is a 48.7% increase from 2024; the Facebook Group has 10,304 members; Instagram has 110 followers; and LinkedIn, which was established in September 2025, has 778 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** |**Financial Review**||| |---|---|---| |Review of the charity’s
financial position at the end
of the period|Para 1.21|Total of £37,146.00 in assets at the end of
the period.
Income of £23,426.00 against a total
expenditure of £8,804.00. Annual profit of
£14,622.00.| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
stating why they are 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|No concerns as it stands about the charity
continuing as a going concern. We have
had a strong year, driven by a
marked increase in event revenue. This has
allowed the charity to be dynamic in its
research award offering and expand
our stipended core team. We outperformed
our annual profit target of £5,000 by
almost 3 times. This allows the organisation
to continue to put on large-scale
conferences such as our most recent event
at the University of Cambridge.| **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 biennial
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 charity trustee.| **Additional information (optional)** You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Policies and procedures adopted for the induction Para 1.51 and training of trustees |||| |---|---|---| |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) / ASEAS| |Registered charity number|1170590| |Charity’s principal address|Centre of South East Asian Studies
SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square
WC1H 0XG| ||| **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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23|**Trustee name**|**Office (if any)**|**Dates acted if not for whole**
**year **|**Name of person (or body) entitled**
**to appoint trustee (ifany)**| |---|---|---|---|---| ||Adam Tyson|Chair||| ||KimberleyWeir|Operations Director||| ||Elliot Newbold|Financial Director||| ||Kellynn Wee|Communications
Director|To October 2024|| ||Chanapang
Pongpiboonkiat|Communications
Director|From October 2024|| ||Thomas Kingston|Editorial Director||| ||Stephanie
Benzaquen-Gautier|||| ||Mike Charney|||| ||Fakhriati Fakhriati||To March 2025|| ||Tilman Frasch||To March 2025|| ||Dylan Gaffney|||| ||Michael Leadbetter||To March 2025|| ||Ronan Lee|||| ||Nick Long|||| ||MayTan-Mullins|||| ||Ben Murtagh|||| ||Louis O'Sullivan||To September 2024|| ||Laurie Parsons|||| ||Amanda Rogers|||| ||Charlie Rumsby||To March 2025|| ||Russell Yap|||| ||Claire Smith||From April 2025|| ||Liana Chua||From April 2025|| ||Milda Istiqomah||From April 2025|| – 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 whole year** ## **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)** |**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**|**Names and addresses of advisers (Optional information)**| |---|---|---| |**Type of**
**adviser**
**Name**
**Address**||| |||| |||| |||| |||| |**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)** Adam Tyson **Full name(s)** Kimberley Weir ~~a~~ **Position (eg Secretary,** Operations Director Chair **Chair, etc)** ~~ee~~ **Date** 14.05.2026 ~~Pp~~ |**CC16a**
31/07/2024
31/07/2025
**1170590**
**Association of Southeast Asian Studies (UK)**
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**from**
~~SSS~~|| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||||||| ||**Unrestricted**
**funds**||**Restricted**
**funds**||**Endowment**
**funds**|**Total funds**||**Last year**|| ||**to the nearest**
**£**|**to the nearest**|**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|**to the nearest £**||**to the nearest £**|| |**A1 Receipts**|||||||||| |MembershipPayments|**3,928**||**-**||**-**|**3,928**||**5,223**|| |Gross Interest|**376**||**-**||**-**|**376**||**328**|| |Event Revenue|**19,122**||**-**||**-**|**19,122**||**15,903**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**|||| ||||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|| |**_Sub total_**_(Gross income for_|_(Gross income for_||||||||| |_AR)_|_AR)_**23,426**||**-**||**-**|**23,426**||**21,454**|| ||||||||||| |**A2 Asset and investment sales,**
**(see table).**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_**
**23,426**
**-**
**-**
**23,426**
**21,454**
~~——————~~|||||||||| |**A3 Payments**
Research Awards
**3,250**
**-**
**-**
**3,250**
**227**
Stipend
**3,334**
**-**
**-**
**3,334**
**3,500**
Reimburse for Services
**2,087**
**-**
**-**
**2,087**
**13,317**
Bank charges
**133**
**-**
**-**
**133**
**132**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
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~~> >~~|||||||||| ||**-**||**-**||**-**|**-**||**-**|| |**_Sub total_ **|**8,804**||**-**||**-**|**8,804**||**17,176**|| ||||||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
**purchases, (see table)**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_**
**8,804**
**-**
**-**
**8,804**
**17,176**
~~——————~~|||||||||| |**_Net of receipts/(payments)_**
**A5 Transfers between funds**
**A6 Cash funds last year end**
**_Cash funds this year end_**|**14,622**
**-**
**- 14,622**
**-**
**- -**
**22,524**
**- -**
**37,146**
**-**
**- 37,146**
~~SS]~~|||||**- 14,622**
**4,278**
**-**
**-**
**22,524**
**-**
**- 37,146**
**4,278**
~~54~~|||| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 14/05/2026 1 ||**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|**Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period**|||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |||||**Unrestricted**
**Restricted**||**Endowment**|| ||**Categories**|**Details**||**funds**
**funds**||**funds**|| |||||**to nearest £**
**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|| ||**B1 Cash funds**|**1,146**
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**-**
**36,000**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**37,146**
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behalf of all the trustees
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Date of
approval
14.05.2026
Print Name
KIMBERLEY WEIR
Signature
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