# ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND

## Details

- **Country:** England & Wales
- **Charity number:** 209629
- **Other names:** THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** Other
- **Registered:** Sept. 22, 1962
- **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=209629


## Contact

- **Address:** 14 STEPHENSON WAY, LONDON
- **Postcode:** NW1 2HD
- **Phone:** 02073884539
- **Email:** info@royalasiaticsociety.org
- **Website:** www.royalasiaticsociety.org



## Activities

**Objects:** THE STUDY AND DISSEMINATION OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE ARCHAEOLOGY, ART, HISTORY, LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, BELIEFS AND CUSTOMS OF THE EAST.

**Activities:** The investigation and encouragement of science, literature and the arts in relation to Asia. The Society promotes a number of activities in this field: lectures, research workshops and student events. It publishes works of scholarship and a journal. It maintains an important library including prints, drawings and manuscripts relating to the history, religions, languages, art and customs of Asia.

**Area of benefit:** NATIONAL AND WORLDWIDE.




## Classification

- **How:** Provides Services, Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
- **What:** Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
- **Who:** Other Defined Groups, The General Public/mankind



## Areas of operation

- Throughout England And Wales



## Finances

| Period end | Income | Expenditure | Assets | Employees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec. 31, 2024 | £528077 | £574073 | £5288309 | 6 |
| Dec. 31, 2023 | £540469 | £664484 | £5234646 | 6 |
| Dec. 31, 2022 | £527728 | £602736 | £5327627 | 5 |
| Dec. 31, 2021 | £470435 | £550179 | — | — |
| Dec. 31, 2020 | £412731 | £514530 | — | — |



## Trustees

- **Dr Norbert Worthington Peabody** (Chair) — appointed May 16, 2024
- Dr BARBARA BREND — appointed May 12, 2022
- Dr Gai Jorayev — appointed May 16, 2024
- Dr Gordon Johnson — appointed May 16, 2022
- Dr Helen Elizabeth Driver — appointed May 15, 2025
- Dr Jagjeet Lally — appointed May 15, 2025
- Dr Jochen Sokoly — appointed May 16, 2024
- Dr Priyanka Basu — appointed May 12, 2022
- Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones — appointed May 12, 2022
- Dr Weipin Tsai — appointed May 18, 2023
- Dr Yuri Stoyanov — appointed May 15, 2025
- Elizabeth Robb — appointed May 12, 2022
- LIONEL KNIGHT — appointed May 12, 2022
- PROFESSOR SARAH ANSARI — appointed May 16, 2024
- Professor Francis Robinson — appointed May 12, 2022
- Professor Javed Majeed — appointed May 16, 2024
- Professor Surya P Subedi — appointed May 16, 2024
- Professor Susan Whitfield — appointed May 18, 2023
- Richard Blurton — appointed May 12, 2022