2024-04-05-accounts - The Foundation For The Study Of Ancient Arabia's Languages And Cultures

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Trustees’ Annual Report for the period

From 06–04–2023 Period start date To 05-04-2024 Period end date

Charity name: Foundation for the Study of Ancient Arabia's Languages and Cultures

Charity registration number: 1193702

Objectives and Activities

	SORP reference
Summary of the purposes of the charity as set out in its governing document	Para 1.17	To advance public education throughout the world by recording, studying, interpreting, editing and making freely available online and/or in print and/or by any other method the inscriptions and/or ancient and/or mediaeval written documents and/or rock art found in the Arabian Peninsula and the inscriptions and/or ancient and/or mediaeval documents and/or rock art of similar types to those in the Peninsula found in countries such as, but not limited to, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Palestine, Israel, and Egypt or items from one or more of these countries now in museums or other collections elsewhere PROVIDING THAT the inscription and/or written material is in a language or script examples of which are found in the Arabian Peninsula.
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	To maintain, improve and expand the Online Corpus of the Inscriptions of Ancient North Arabia (OCIANA) by the entry of inscriptions and/or ancient and/or mediaeval written documents and/or rock art which are newly discovered or which are already known but have not yet been entered together with images of these.
Statement confirming whether the trustees have had regard to the guidance issued by the Charity Commission on public benefit	Para 1.18	They have.

Additional information (optional) You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:

	SORP reference
Policy on grant making	Para 1.38	We have made one grant of £540 to a graduate student to enter inscriptions in the OCIANA database.
Policy on social investment	Para 1.38	N/A

including program related investment N/A Para 1.38 Contribution made by volunteers Other

Achievements and Performance

SORP reference In the year 2023/2024 135 inscriptions were entered into the OCIANA database together with all their metadata and photographs. This would have been impossible without the Charity's grant Summary of the main Para 1.20 to the student to do the entering. 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.

Additional information (optional) You may choose to include further statements where relevant about:

Achievements against objectives set	Para 1.41	The achievements this year have greatly enhanced the material in the OCIANA database which is the principal objective of the charity.
Performance of fundraising activities against objectives set	Para 1.41	There have been no fundraising activities this year
Investment performance against objectives	Para 1.41	N/A

Other

Financial Review

Financial Review
Review of the charity’s financial position at the end of the period	Para 1.21	Excellent
Statement explaining the policy for holding reserves stating why they are held	Para 1.22	Reserves are held for making grants to scholars to enter new material in the OCIANA database
Amount of reserves held	Para 1.22	£31,846.96 as at 02-04-2024
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	N/A

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
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:		N/A
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	CIO
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	The committee elects new members when an existing member's tenure comes to an end

Additional information (optional) You may choose to include further statements where relevant about: Policies and procedures adopted for the induction and Para 1.51 training of trustees The charity’s organisational structure and any wider Para 1.51 network with which the charity works Relationship with any related Para 1.51 parties Other

Reference and Administrative details

Charity name	Foundation for the Study of Ancient Arabia's Languages and Cultures
Other name the charity uses	N/A
Registered charity number	1193702
Charity’s principal address	Burmington Manor, Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, CV36 5AG

Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity

Trustee name	Office (if any)	Dates acted if not for whole year	Name of person (or body) entitled to appoint trustee (if any)
Michael C.A. Macdonald	Chair	Whole year	The Committee of Trustees
Prof Jacob Dahl	Hon Treasurer	Wholeyear	The Committee of Trustees
Dr Orhan Elmaz	Hon Secretary	Wholeyear	The Committee of Trustees
Dr Maria Guagnin		Wholeyear	The Committee of Trustees
Prof Ahmad Al- Jallad		Whole year	The Committee of Trustees
Dr Ali Al-Manaser		Wholeyear	The Committee of Trustees
Dr Laïla Nehmé		Wholeyear	The Committee of Trustees
Dr Jérôme Norris		Wholeyear	The Committee of Trustees
Dr Alessia Prioletta		Wholeyear	The Committee of Trustees
Dr Hythem Sidky		Wholeyear	The Committee of Trustees

– Corporate trustees names of the directors at the date the report was approved

Director name NONE

Name of trustees holding title to property belonging to the charity

Trustee name	Dates acted if not for whole year
N/A

Funds held as custodian trustees on behalf of others

Description of the assets N/A 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

N/A

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

	Michael Christopher Archibald Macdonald	Jacob Lebovitch Dahl
	Chair
	28-01-2025
	28-01-2025

Charity Name No (if any) THE FOUNDATION FOR THE STUDY OF ANCIENT ARABIA1193702 Receipts and payments accounts CC16a For the period 06/04/2023 05/04/2024 To from

Section A Receipts and payments	Section A Receipts and payments
A1 Receipts	Unrestricted funds to the nearest £ 750 30 798 34 - - - - - 31 582 - - - 31 582 60 540 1 - - - - - - 601 - - - 601 30 981 - 865 31 846	Restricted funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Endowment funds to the nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -	Total funds to the nearest £ 750 30 798 34 - - - - - 31 582 - - - 31 582 60 540 1 - - - - - - 601 - - - 601 30 981	Last year to the nearest £
Donation from M. MacDonald 23/08/2023	750				-
Donation from L. Thyssen (via Wolfson College)22/09/2023	30 798				-
Interests	34				-
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*Sub total*(Gross income for AR)	31 582				-

A2 Asset and investment sales, (see table).
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*Sub total*	-				-
*Total receipts* A3 Payments
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Bank Fees	60				-
Grant to Josef Bloomfield (paid by check)	540				-
Fees for check	1				-
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**Sub total **	601				-

A4 Asset and investment purchases, (see table)
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*Total payments* *Net of receipts/(payments)* A5 Transfers between funds A6 Cash funds last year end *Cash funds this year end*
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	30 981	-	-	30 981	-
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	865	-	-	865	-
	31 846	-	-	31 846	-

CCXX R1 accounts (SS)

Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period

Categories Signed by one or two trustees on behalf of all the trustees B5 Liabilities B3 Investment assets B2 Other monetary assets B4 Assets retained for the charity’s own use B1 Cash funds	Details Details *Total cash funds* (agree balances with receipts and payments account(s)) Details Details Details Signature	Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ 31 846 - - - - - 31 846 - OK OK Unrestricted funds Restricted funds to nearest £ to nearest £ - - - - - - - - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - Fund to which asset belongs Cost (optional) - - - - - - - - - Fund to which liability relates Amount due (optional) - - - - - Print Name Jacob L Dahl Michael C.A. Macdonald	Endowment funds to nearest £
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			Date of approval
			1/2/2025
			1/2/2025

CCXX R2 accounts (SS)

Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees Foundation for the Study of Ancient Arabia's Languages and Cultures

On accounts for the year 5 April 2024 Charity no 1193702 ended (if any) Set out on pages

(remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 05/04/2024.

Responsibilities and As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the basis of report accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).

I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have
examiner's statement come to my attention in connection with the examination (other than that disclosed below *) which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:
the accounting records were not kept in accordance with section 130 of the Charities Act; or
the accounts did not accord with the accounting records; or
the accounts did not comply with the applicable requirements concerning the form and content of accounts set out in the Charities (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 other than any requirement that the accounts give a ‘true and fair’ view which is not a matter considered as part of an independent examination.

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Please delete the words in the brackets if they do not apply.

Date: 3 February 2024

Signed: Name: Dr Huw David

Oct 2018

IER

Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any):

Address: Quinton Cottage, High Street, Islip, Oxfordshire, OX5 2RX

Section B Disclosure

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).

Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .

Oct 2018

IER