Charity Details

Scottish National Memorial To David Livingstone Trust

SC015490Registered charity from 31 March 1931

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Charity Information:

Address 165 Station Road
Blantyre

Postcode G72 9BY

Website No Link Provided

Regulatory Type Standard

Link to Companies House https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/

Object:

To acquire by purchase, feu or otherwise the tenements in Blantyre, in the County of Lanark, containing the house in which David Livingstone, the Missionary and Explorer, was born or had his home as a child, together with an adjacent heritable proeprty comprising the house and grounds known as Blantyre Lodge, and to hold, manage and administer the said properties as a Scottish National Memorial of David Livingstone, his life and achievements.

Operations:

What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:

The David Livingstone Trust (DLT) was entrusted in 1929 with the ownership of David Livingstone Birthplace (DLB) at Blantyre, which includes the Category A-Listed Building of Livingstone’s birth, surrounding parkland, and a collection of 4,000 objects. David Livingstone Birthplace is the only independent museum in Scotland that is dedicated to preserving the legacy of David Livingstone and re-examining his work within the complex and painful realities of slavery, colonialism and nineteenth century European attitudes towards African people and community groups. This puts the museum in a unique position to be central to discussions around Scotland’s role in slavery and colonisation and how that is represented both in our interpretation of David

Charity Status: Active

Constitutional Form: Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)

Constitutional Form Date: 31 Mar 1931

Main Operating Location: South Lanarkshire

Number of Staff: 13

Number of Charity Trustees: 11

Number of Volunteers: 51-100

Purposes: "the advancement of education", "the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science"

Beneficiaries: "Other defined groups"

Types Of Activity Undertaken: "It carries out activities or services itself"

Annual Submissions:

Year End	Income	Expenditure	Annual Return Received	Accounts Received	Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
31 Dec 2021	£1,377,822	£944,898	23 Sept 2022	Yes
31 Dec 2022	£1,028,333	£1,337,412	29 Sept 2023	Yes
31 Dec 2023	£1,705,839	£1,275,044	30 Sept 2024	Yes
31 Dec 2024	£476,795	£840,738	30 Sept 2025	Yes	Published accounts can be found on the Companies House website
31 Dec 2025			No	Annual Information due by 30 Sept 2026	Published accounts can be found on the Companies House website
If an annual return has been received on time (within nine months of the Year End Date), the 'Annual Return Received' box is green . If an annual return is late, the box is red .

Income and Expenditure:

Charity Trustees:

First Name	Last Name
Kathryn	Simpson
Neil	Wilson
Douglas	Hay
Susan	Haughey
Allan Graeme	Walker
Stewart	Murdoch
Sandra	Lowson
Yomah	Matemba
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