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The Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Culture

  • 5 trustees
  • Income £350k (2025)

Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources

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Also 1 organisation acting as trustee: HON and V Trustee LTD.

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Arts/culture/heritage/science
Where
Throughout England And Wales
Registered
1999

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£350k£400k
  • 2024£372k£396k
  • 2023£347k£375k
Earlier years
  • 2022£334k£357k
  • 2021£284k£319k

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Charitable objects

FOR CHARITABLE PURPOSES CONNECTED WITH THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND LEARNING BY THE PROMOTION OF STUDY INTO RESEARCH AND TEACHING OF THE CULTURE OF JAPAN AND BY ALL MEANS AVAILABLE AT OR ASSOCIATED WITH THE INSTITUTE SHALL PROVIDE FACILITIES FOR THE CARRYING OUT OF THE SAID PURPOSES AND IN PARTICULAR (BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING) FOR ALL OR SUCH ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES SHALL FROM TIME TO TIME THINK FIT NAMELY:(A) IN DEFRAYING OR CONTRIBUTING TOWARDS THE COSTS OF EMPLOYMENT BY THE UNIVERSITY OF SUCH OFFICIALS OR STAFF(INCLUDING A DIRECTOR AN ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR A LIBRARIAN AND ADMINISTRATIVE AND SECRETARIAL STAFF) AS SHALL BE REQUIRED FOR THE INSTITUTE (SUCH REQUIREMENTS TO BE DETERMINED BY THE BOARD) (B) IN DEFRAYING OR CONTRIBUTING TOWARDS THE COSTS OF ANY BURSARY RESEARCH GRANT SCHOLARSHIP STUDENTSHIP VISITING OR SIMILAR EDUCATIONAL GRANT OR AWARD (C) IN DEFRAYING OR CONTRIBUTING TOWARDS THE COSTS OF CONFERENCES LECTURES COURSES SEMINARS OR OTHER EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES HELD CONDUCTED IN OR ASSOCIATED WITH THE INSTITUTE (D) IN DEFRAYING OR CONTRIBUTING TOWARDS THE FOLLOWING FURTHER COSTS OF RUNNING THE INSTITUTE NAMELY:(1) THE PURCHASE OF OFFICE EQUIPMENT FOR THE INSTITUTE AND THE MAINTENANCE THEREOF (11) DAY TO DAY OFFICE EXPENSES OF THE INSTITUTE ((NOT BEING EXCLUDED COSTS AS HEREINAFTER DEFINED) (111) TRAVELLING AND ACCOMMODATION COSTS OR EXPENSES OF STAFF OR OFFICIALS WITHIN THE INSTITUTE AND OF ACADEMIC VISITORS TO THE INSTITUTE SUCH COSTS OR EXPENSES BEING INCURRED WHOLLY AND EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE ACTIVITIES CARRIED ON BY OR WITHIN THE INSTITUTE (1V) ALL OTHER COSTS DIRECTLY ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE INSTITUTE (E) IN DEFRAYING OR CONTRIBUTING TOWARDS THE COSTS OF PUBLISHING ANY EDUCATIONAL BOOKS PAPERS JOURNALS OR OTHER WORKS UNDERTAKEN AT OR WITHIN OR ASSOCIATED WITH THE INSTITUTE (F) IN DEFRAYING OR CONTRIBUTING TOWARDS THE COSTS OF MOUNTING ANY SPECIAL EXHIBITION OR EXHIBITIONS IN THE INSTITUTE OR ASSOCIATED WITH THE INSTITUTE AND THE PRODUCTION OF ANY APPROPRIATE CATALOGUE OR CATALOGUES IN CONNECTION THEREWITH (G) IN DEFRAYING OR CONTRIBUTING TOWARDS THE COSTS OF ESTABLISHING MAINTAINING AND EXTENDING ANY LIBRARY AS MAY BE ESTABLISHED HELD OR MAINTAINED AT THE INSTITUTE OR ASSOCIATED WITH THE INSTITUTE AND OF PURCHASING OR ACQUIRING ANY BOOKS JOURNALS PERIODICALS PAPERS SLIDES TRANSPARENCIES PHOTOGRAPHS REPRODUCTIONS OR OTHER EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL FOR SUCH LIBRARY (H) IN DEFRAYING OR CONTRIBUTING TOWARDS THE COSTS OF PUBLICISING THE ACTIVITIES OF THE INSTITUTE (1) IN DEFRAYING OR CONTRIBUTING TOWARDS SUCH OTHER OF THE COSTS OF RUNNING THE INSTITUTE INCLUDING THE MAINTENANCE AND RUNNING COSTS OF ANY LINK BETWEEN ANY LIBRARY AS MAY BE ESTABLISHED HELD AND MAINTAINED AT THE INSTITUTE OR ASSOCIATED WITH THE INSTITUTE AND THE UNIVERSITY MAIN LIBRARY CATALOGUE AS MAY FROM TIME TO TIME BE AGREED BY THE BOARD AND BETWEEN THE INSTITUTE THE UNIVERSITY AND SOAS.

Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

4 trustees on the board

6.5y median 7.5y
average tenure
8y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

12.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

Portfolio (4)

3
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Arts/culture/heritage/science 4Education/training 4The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Education 8Other services 4Business services 2

Gaps to watch

  • Several long-serving trustees could step down together

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£350k latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1073416
Status
Registered
Governing document
TRUST DEED DATED 16/12/1998AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION DATED 17/07/2012
Contact on the register
02074100330
Edition
Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
Labels
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