## **Trustees’ Annual Report for the period** **From 06–04–2024 Period start date To 05-04-2025 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|Since 8th April 2024 the Charity has been
paying a regular grant to a post-doc to enter
inscriptions in OCIANA. In the year 2024/25
he entered just over 3,000 inscriptions in the
OCIANA database.| |Policyon 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|| |---|---|---| |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|In the year 2024/2025 just over 3,000
inscriptions were entered into the OCIANA
database together with all their metadata and
photographs. This would have been impossible
without the Charity's grant to the post-doc to do
the entering.| ## **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
ofthe period|Para 1.21|Excellent| |Statement explaining the
policy for holding reserves
statingwhy they areheld|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|£11,207.87 as at 15-01-2026| |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 Para 1.47 any fundraising) Investment policy and objectives including any Para 1.46 social investment policy adopted A description of the principal Para 1.46 risks facing the charity Other ## **Structure, Governance and Management** |Description of charity’s
trusts:||N/A| |---|---|---| |Type of governing document
(trust deed,royalcharter)|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 charityuses|N/A| |Registered charitynumber|1193702| |Charity’s principal address|Burmington Manor, Shipston-on-Stour, Warwickshire, CV36 5AG| ||| ## **Names of the charity trustees who manage the charity** |1
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**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 wholeyear**|| |---|---|---| |**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)** Jacob Lebovitch Dahl Michael Christopher Archibald Macdonald **Position (eg Secretary,** Chair Hon Treasurer **Chair, etc) Date** 21-01-2026 ||**THE FOUNDATION FOR THE STUDY OF ANCIENT ARABIA**|**THE FOUNDATION FOR THE STUDY OF ANCIENT ARABIA**|**THE FOUNDATION FOR THE STUDY OF ANCIENT ARABIA**|**THE FOUNDATION FOR THE STUDY OF ANCIENT ARABIA**|**CC16a**| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||**For the period**
**from**|06/04/2024|**To**||| ||||||| |**Section A Receipts and payments**|||||| |**A1 Receipts**|**Unrestricted**
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**14 660**
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**to the nearest £**| |interests|**50**||**-**
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**14 660**|**-**| |Grants to Josef Bloomfield (paid by online
transfer)|**13 160**||||**-**| |Grant to D M Burt (paid by online transfer)|**1 440**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| ||**-**||||**-**| |**_Sub total_ **|**14 660**||||**-**| ||||||| |**A4 Asset and investment**
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**-**|**17 236**|**-**| CCXX R1 accounts (SS) 1 Section B Statement of assets and liabilities at the end of the period Unre8trl¢tsd Restrlctsd fund$ fund8 to nMr••t£ Endowm•nt fund$ CatsgoThe8 Dotails 31 Cash funds Total cash fund8 sll UTrre$trid•d funds Restricted fund¥ tonèAve•t£ Endowmtrnt fund8 to nDJr•st£ Details Fumltowhkh Cur¥•nt valuF etails CC4t{opUon￿j Curtent valu Detsils B4 Assets retained for th• charlty'B own uso Furnlto*l*¢h Ajnourtthe Wkn•n dufy Details 35 Llabllitles Slgned by one 0[￿9 tru5te&s on behalf of all the trustees Date of roval Signats4 Ptint Name Jacob L Dahl Michael C.A. Macdonald 2-2-2026 2-2-2026 CCXX R2 acg)unts ISSI