Registered charity · Leicestershire
Darbar Arts Culture and Heritage Trust
- 6 trustees
- Income £1.3m (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 4th October 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- Education/training, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Environment/conservation/heritage
- Where
- Throughout England
- Website
- www.darbar.org (opens in a new tab)
- Linked company
- Darbar Arts Culture and Heritage Trust
- Registered
- 2008
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£1.3m£1.1m
- 2024£983k£888k
- 2023£633k£549k
Earlier years
- 2022£504k£480k
- 2021£315k£305k
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
(A) TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN SOUTH ASIAN MUSIC AND OTHER ASPECTS OF SOUTH ASIAN ARTS, CULTURE AND HERITAGE THROUGH PUBLIC PERFORMANCES AND TRAINING;(B) TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT HEALTH AMONG PEOPLE BY PROMOTING MUSIC AND OTHER ART FORMS AS THERAPY.
Grants received
6 grants · £1,953,548 total360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.
Top funders
- Department for Culture, Media & Sport · £1,165,024 (2 grants)
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £748,524 (3 grants)
- Garfield Weston Foundation · £40,000
Most recent
- Department for Culture, Media & Sport
- Department for Culture, Media & Sport
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
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.
6 trustees on the board
- Deepak Paramanand since 2024
- Freya Salway since 2024
- Harmeet Virdee since 2020
- Nishant Bhaskar since 2014
- Narmada Guruswamy since 2024
- Sabine Kindal since 2023
Trustees past 6 years
- Harmeet Virdee since 2020
- Nishant Bhaskar since 2014
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (6)
- Deepak Paramanand since 2024
- Freya Salway since 2024
- Harmeet Virdee since 2020
- Nishant Bhaskar since 2014
- Narmada Guruswamy since 2024
- Sabine Kindal since 2023
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
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.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
1.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1123009
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED 26 SEPTEMBER 2007 AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 19 FEBRUARY 2008
- Companies House
- Company number 06382865 · Active
- Contact on the register
- 07775755955 · hello@darbar.org
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 4th October 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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