Charity Details

Scottish Working People's History Trust

SC020357Registered charity from 17 July 1992

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Charity Information:

Address 51
Drylaw Crescent
Edinburgh
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Postcode EH4 2AS

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Website www.swpht.org.uk

Regulatory Type Standard

Object:

The object of the Trust is so far as the same is legally charitable to advance the education of the public generally concerning the history of Scottish working people, and in furtherance thereof but not otherwise the Trust has powers as under; To search for and where possible secure for permanent deposti in pubic, university or other appropriate repositories in Scotland, source materials - both organisational and personal - relating to the histoty of working people in Scotland. 2. To persuade all relevant organisations formally to undertake the regular transfer into public, university or other appropriate repositories of their choice of those of their records no longer required for present or future administrative or other purposes and to persuade such organisations to grant so far as is possible full access to such source materials to all bona fide researchers. 3. To publicise by every possible means the need to secure the preservation in the interests of Scottish History of source materials in the hands of private individuals. 4. To undertake, always in consultation with local librarians, history societies and other interested individuals or bodies such as the School of Scottish Studies, Edinburgh, the Scottish Oral History Society, and the proposed Scottish Sound Archive or similar institution, so that duplication of effort may be avoided, the tape-recording of the recollections of working people throughout Scotland concerning their working, housing, cultural, recreational and other experience; and the transcription, editing and publication of such recollections. 5. To undertake, possibly in cooperation with other bodies such as the Scottish History Society or the European Ethnological Research Centre as part of their own pUblications programmes, the editing and publication of relevant documentary source material, whether organisational or personal.

Operations:

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

The Trust's main objective is to find, document and preserve evidence of the history of working people in Scotland. This is done by running oral history recording projects with different occupational groups, and then transcribing the recordings and making them publicly available through the School of Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh. When possible, the Trust also publishes volumes of memories of the working lives of the people it has interviewed.

Charity Status: Active

Constitutional Form: Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)

Constitutional Form Date: 17 Jul 1992

Main Operating Location: Glasgow City

Number of Staff: 0

Number of Volunteers: 1-50

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

Beneficiaries: "No specific group, or for the benefit of the community"

Types Of Activity Undertaken: "It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals", "It carries out activities or services itself"

Annual Submissions:

Year End	Income	Expenditure	Annual Return Received	Accounts Received	Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
31 Mar 2022	£2,570	£358	28 Jun 2022	Yes
31 Mar 2023	£305	£1,875	13 Jul 2023	Yes
31 Mar 2024	£543	£997	04 Jul 2024	Yes
31 Mar 2025	£629	£1,289	27 Jun 2025	Yes	Not published by OSCR
31 Mar 2026			No	Annual Information due by 31 Dec 2026
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
Alan	Reid
Oliver	Taylor
Elizabeth	Bryan
Neil	Fraser
Michael	Allan
Cathlin	Macaulay
Dorothy	Kidd
Ailsa	Hutton
Siân	Reynolds
Janet	McBain
Hugh	Hagan
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