Charity Details

Scottish Book Trust

SC027669Registered charity from 26 March 1998

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Charity Information:

Address Sandeman House
Trunk's Close
55 High Street
Edinburgh

Postcode EH1 1SR

Website www.scottishbooktrust.com

Regulatory Type Standard

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

Object:

The objects of the company are to advance education and the arts, in particular through education of the public in Scotland by encouraging writing for pleasure, creativity and the reading, study, appreciation and the knowledge of books and all forms of literature. The company’s objects are restricted to those set out in article 4 (but subject to article 6). The company may (subject to first obtaining the consent of OSCR) add to, remove or alter the statement of the company’s objects in article 4; on any occasion when it does so, it must give notice to the registrar of companies and the amendment will not be effective until that notice is registered on the register of companies.

Operations:

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

Our charity’s mission is to ensure people living in Scotland have equal access to books, and all thebenefits that come from reading and writing. We are embedded in urban and rural communities and place a particular emphasis on supporting the diversity of Scotland’s languages and lifestyles, and tackling the link between poverty, illiteracy, the attainment gap, and poor social and health outcomes. We also aim to ensure that Scotland’s wide-ranging literary talent, both emerging and established, is nurtured and supported. Our programme offers a mix of both universal and highly targeted programmes specifically aimed at those most in need eg Bookbug, Reading Schools and Reading is Caring. We work with a very wide variety of stakeholder including all 32 Local Authorities, hundreds of community organisations, publishers, agents, and writers.

Charity Status: Active

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

Constitutional Form Date: 26 Mar 1998

Main Operating Location: City of Edinburgh

Number of Staff: 70

Number of Volunteers: 0

Purposes: "the advancement of education", "the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science", "any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes"

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

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 Mar 2022	£5,806,668	£5,482,692	15 Dec 2022	Yes
31 Mar 2023	£6,123,133	£5,819,264	22 Dec 2023	Yes
31 Mar 2024	£5,906,887	£5,808,069	13 Dec 2024	Yes
31 Mar 2025	£5,966,731	£6,158,866	19 Dec 2025	Yes	Published accounts can be found on the Companies House website
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
Mary	Monaghan
Sue	Ellis
Morag	Dunlop
Philippa	Johnston
Joanna	Gill
Andrew	Marchant
Sarah	English
Hilde	Frydnes
Udita	Banerjee
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