The Anād Foundation is a public charitable trust governed by its Board of Trustees in accordance with its Trust Deed, supplementary deeds, Board resolutions, statutory registrations, and applicable law.
For legal, statutory, banking, tax, audit, CSR, and formal institutional purposes, the Foundation’s legal name is The Anad Foundation. The form Anād is used as the Foundation’s preferred cultural, scholarly, programme, publication, and public-facing style.
Board of Trustees
The Foundation’s Board of Trustees is responsible for the overall governance, stewardship, policy direction, statutory compliance, financial oversight, institutional continuity, and public-charitable character of the Foundation.
The Board may approve projects, budgets, appointments, donor engagements, CSR proposals, statutory submissions, MoUs, authorisations, committees, and other matters necessary for the Foundation’s objects.
Trustee Responsibility
Trustees act in a fiduciary capacity and are expected to uphold the Foundation’s public charitable purposes. Their role includes:
- protecting the non-profit and public-interest character of the Foundation;
- ensuring that funds and assets are applied toward the Foundation’s objects;
- reviewing and approving major institutional decisions;
- maintaining proper records, minutes, accounts, and authorisations;
- ensuring transparency in donor / CSR / statutory matters;
- supporting heritage conservation, education, research, publications, health-care, and public-welfare initiatives;
- safeguarding institutional continuity.
Conflict-of-Interest Safeguards
The Foundation recognises that heritage work may involve founders, trustees, scholars, artists, lenders, donors, collection owners, property owners, rights-holders, artisans, and related persons who contribute resources, services, collections, spaces, expertise, or intellectual property.
Where any Trustee, founder, office-bearer, employee, consultant, relative, lender, licensor, rights-holder, or connected person has an interest in a proposed transaction, engagement, MoU, contract, payment, appointment, licence, loan, collection arrangement, premises-use arrangement, or other matter, such interest is to be disclosed.
The concerned person shall not vote on the relevant approval and may be required to abstain from signing or acting on behalf of the Foundation where a conflict exists. The Board may authorise a non-conflicted Trustee or authorised signatory to act on behalf of the Foundation in such matters.
Such safeguards are intended to ensure transparency, proper governance, reasonableness of terms, documentation, and protection of the Foundation’s charitable character.
Committees and Working Groups
The Board may constitute committees, sub-committees, advisory groups, working groups, academic councils, editorial boards, project committees, audit committees, conservation committees, pedagogy committees, and other bodies for specific purposes.
Such committees may support work relating to:
- heritage conservation;
- archives and collections;
- Gurbāṇī Saṅgīt and music of Srī Gurū Granth Sāhib;
- publications and ARPO;
- education and pedagogy;
- instruments and craft traditions;
- health-care and welfare initiatives;
- donor / CSR documentation;
- project planning and implementation.
Committees function under the authority of the Board and report to the Board or authorised persons as directed.
Authorised Signatories
The Board may authorise Trustees, office-bearers, employees, consultants, coordinators, or other persons to act as authorised signatories or representatives for specified purposes.
Such authorisations may relate to donation receipts, statutory filings, CSR documentation, donor communication, bank matters, contracts, MoUs, project submissions, correspondence, or other defined institutional functions.
No authorised person has powers beyond the specific authority granted by the Board.
Accounts, Audit and Records
The Foundation maintains books of account, records, vouchers, minutes, resolutions, statutory registrations, donor records, project records, and documentation required for audit and compliance.
The accounts of the Foundation are to be audited by a qualified Chartered Accountant as required by law.
CSR and Donor-Funded Projects
The Foundation may receive CSR contributions, donations, grants, corpus contributions, in-kind support, project funds, and other lawful support subject to applicable registrations, donor requirements, Board approval, accounting treatment, and statutory compliance.
CSR-supported projects may be implemented through approved project notes, budgets, utilisation schedules, reporting frameworks, documentation trails, and completion reports.
Public Charitable Character
The Foundation functions on a non-profit basis. No part of its income, property, grants, donations, corpus, or surplus is to be distributed by way of profit, dividend, bonus, or private benefit.
All funds, assets, collections, facilities, and institutional resources are to be applied toward the Foundation’s charitable, educational, cultural, conservation, archival, research, welfare, health-care, and public-interest objects.
Historical Governance Records
Some pages or documents on this website may refer to earlier founder trustees, associate trustees, advisory groups, project offices, or institutional proposals from earlier phases of the Foundation’s work. Such references are retained for institutional and archival continuity.
For current statutory, donor, CSR, audit, legal, or governance purposes, please rely on the Foundation’s current Trust records, Board resolutions, statutory registrations, and documents issued by the authorised office-bearers of the Foundation.
The Anād Foundation 