Registered charity · London
Kerala Arts and Literary Association (Kala)
- 9 trustees
- Income £27k (2024)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
- Ajay ChandranTrustee · since 2023
- Dr Hema Santhosh Dr.Trustee · since 2023
- Dr Nisha RamkumarTrustee · since 2021
- Dr Sukumaran P K NairTrustee · since 2011
- Kurupath Sathyanath SreekumarTrustee · since 2018
- Manoj NambiarTrustee · since 2023
- Padmanabha Pillai SreeramTrustee · since 2019
- Vaniya Nanu Kandiyil Dr.Trustee · since 2023
- Vipin Selvaraj Playikovilakam VenkitachalamTrustee · since 2019
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- General Charitable Purposes, Arts/culture/heritage/science, Amateur Sport, Environment/conservation/heritage
- Where
- Throughout England
- Website
- www.kala.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
- Registered
- 2011
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2024£27k£25k
- 2023£35k£26k
- 2022£24k£34k
Earlier years
- 2021£21k£16k
- 2020£18k£9k
Income trend, 2020 to 2024.
Charitable objects
1)TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ARTS, CULTURE AND HERITAGE OF KERALA AND INDIA IN GENERAL, INCLUDING LANGUAGE AND MALAYALAM AND ENGLISH LITERATURE, MUSIC AND THE PERFORMING ARTS; AND 2)TO ADVANCE IN LIFE YOUNG PEOPLE TO DEVELOP THEIR CAPABILITIES BY PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ACTIVITIES WHICH DEVELOP THEIR SKILLS, CAPACITIES AND CAPABILITIES SO THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY;AND 3) TO SUPPORT SUCH OTHER GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THE TRUSTEES MAY FROM TIME TO TIME DETERMINE.
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.
9 trustees on the board
- Ajay Chandran since 2023
- Dr Hema Santhosh Dr. since 2023
- Dr Nisha Ramkumar since 2021
- Dr Sukumaran P K Nair since 2011
- Kurupath Sathyanath Sreekumar since 2018
- Manoj Nambiar since 2023
- Padmanabha Pillai Sreeram since 2019
- Vaniya Nanu Kandiyil Dr. since 2023
- Vipin Selvaraj Playikovilakam Venkitachalam since 2019
Trustees past 6 years
- Dr Sukumaran P K Nair since 2011
- Kurupath Sathyanath Sreekumar since 2018
- Padmanabha Pillai Sreeram since 2019
- Vipin Selvaraj Playikovilakam Venkitachalam since 2019
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (9)
- Ajay Chandran since 2023
- Dr Hema Santhosh Dr. since 2023
- Dr Nisha Ramkumar since 2021
- Dr Sukumaran P K Nair since 2011
- Kurupath Sathyanath Sreekumar since 2018
- Manoj Nambiar since 2023
- Padmanabha Pillai Sreeram since 2019
- Vaniya Nanu Kandiyil Dr. since 2023
- Vipin Selvaraj Playikovilakam Venkitachalam since 2019
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Gaps to watch
- No commercial or business experience on the board
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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Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1144122
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 20/03/2011AS AMENDED ON 27/08/2011
- Contact on the register
- 07782324709 · secretary@kala.org.uk
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 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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