The Anād Foundation welcomes support from individuals, families, institutions, philanthropic foundations, CSR contributors, cultural organisations, and well-wishers who wish to help conserve, document, teach, publish, and transmit tangible and intangible heritage.

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.

Why Support Anād?

The Foundation works to safeguard living heritage — not only objects, buildings, manuscripts, instruments, recordings, photographs, books, and archives, but also the knowledge systems, oral traditions, craft practices, musical disciplines, pedagogies, memories, and communities that give them meaning.

Your support can help sustain work in:

1. heritage conservation;
2. archives and collections;
3. manuscripts, books, calligraphy, paper, ink, pigment, and binding traditions;
4. musical instruments and luthiery;
5. Gurbāṇī Saṅgīt and the music of Srī Gurū Granth Sāhib;
6. audio-visual restoration and digital preservation;
7. oral histories and documentation of knowledge-bearers;
8. Anād Khaṅḍ — the Foundation’s conservatory and heritage-transmission framework;
9. research, publications, editing, notation, indexing, and ARPO work;
10. classes, retreats, workshops, and public-learning programmes;
11. welfare and health-care initiatives, including Punj-Care Initiatives;
12. support for artisans, teachers, students, researchers, and tradition-bearers.

Ways to Support

Support may be offered as:

• general donation;
• corpus contribution, where applicable;
• project-specific donation;
• CSR contribution;
• equipment or in-kind support;
• archival / conservation support;
• publication support;
• student scholarship or retreat support;
• support for oral-history documentation;
• support for instrument-making and luthiery;
• support for audio-visual restoration;
• support for health-care and welfare outreach;
• institutional partnership or grant.

Project-Specific Support

Donors may support specific areas of work, including:

Heritage Conservation and Archives

Support for preventive conservation, archival boxes, cabinets, cataloguing, scanning, digitisation, condition documentation, storage, conservation materials, and safe access.

Audio-Visual Restoration

Support for the digitisation and restoration of audio tapes, cassettes, field recordings, video material, oral histories, teaching recordings, and archival performances.

Gurbāṇī Saṅgīt Education

Support for classes, retreats, student learning, pedagogy, notation, repertoire documentation, teaching materials, and transmission of the music of Srī Gurū Granth Sāhib.

Musical Instruments and Luthiery

Support for the conservation, repair, documentation, making, and teaching of heritage instruments such as rabāb, tāus, sarindā, jōṛī, pakhāwaj, mridaṅg, and related instruments.

Manuscripts, Calligraphy, Paper, Ink and Binding

Support for manuscript documentation, scanning, conservation, calligraphy, scribal traditions, traditional paper-making, ink-making, pigment and colour preparation, binding, folio preparation, and related craft knowledge.

Anād Khaṅḍ

Support for Anād Khaṅḍ — the Foundation’s conservatory framework for archives, studios, classrooms, workshops, conservation facilities, research and publication units, galleries, public-learning spaces, and heritage-transmission centres.

Punj-Care Initiatives

Support for health-care, welfare, oral-health, preventive-health, medical outreach, screening, referral, and humanitarian initiatives for underserved communities.

CSR Support

The Foundation may receive CSR contributions subject to applicable law, statutory eligibility, donor requirements, Board approval, and compliance procedures.

CSR-supported projects may be developed with:

• project note;
• objectives and outcomes;
• budget;
• timeline;
• deliverables;
• utilisation framework;
• reporting plan;
• documentation outputs;
• audited / utilisation records where applicable.

Relevant statutory registrations and documents may be shared with CSR contributors, donors, auditors, banks, professional advisors, and statutory authorities upon request.

Donations in India

Donors in India may contact the Foundation for current bank details, statutory information, project notes, receipts, and documentation requirements.

Please write to the Foundation before making large, project-specific, CSR, corpus, or institutional contributions so that proper documentation, purpose, receipt, and compliance treatment can be confirmed.

Foreign Contributions

Foreign contributions may be received only in accordance with applicable law, including FCRA requirements wherever applicable.

Donors based outside India are requested to contact the Foundation before sending any contribution, so that eligibility, routing, purpose, documentation, and compliance requirements can be clarified.

Receipts and Documentation

The Foundation issues donation receipts against verified receipts of funds. Donors may be requested to provide PAN, address, email, phone number, payment details, institutional details, CSR information, declarations, or other KYC / compliance documents as required by law, audit, donor category, or project needs.

In-Kind Support

The Foundation may also accept suitable in-kind support such as equipment, books, instruments, archival materials, conservation supplies, scanning equipment, storage systems, audio-visual equipment, computers, software, cameras, microphones, tools, furniture, or other materials connected with its charitable objects.

Acceptance of in-kind support is subject to suitability, documentation, storage capacity, condition, relevance, ownership clarity, and Board / authorised approval where required.

Contact for Donations and CSR

For donations, CSR contributions, project support, institutional partnerships, or donor discussions, please contact:

The Anād Foundation
Legal / statutory name: The Anad Foundation
C-26, Basement, Nizamuddin East
New Delhi – 110013, India

Telephone: +91-11-41825994
Email: anad@anad.in
Website: http://www.anadfoundation.org

For direct correspondence:

Baldeep Singh
Founder-Chairman / Principal Trustee
also addressed honorifically as Bhāī Baldeep Singh
Mobile: +91 98100 02653
Email: bhaibaldeep@gmail.com

A Note of Gratitude

Every meaningful contribution helps protect fragile materials, support living knowledge, document endangered traditions, teach students, care for instruments and archives, publish research, and make heritage available for public learning.

Anād is grateful to all donors, volunteers, students, families, institutions, and well-wishers who help sustain this work.