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The Scottish Policy and Research Exchange

SC051809Registered charity from 23 June 2022
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Charity Information Operations Annual Submissions Income and Expenditure Charity Trustees
Charity Information:
The Name the Charity is Known By SPRE
Address Scottish Policy & Research Exchange
The Melting Pot
15 Calton Road
Edinburgh,
Postcode EH8 8DL
Website www.spre.scot
Regulatory Type Standard
Object:
4 The organisation's purposes are: (a)The advancement of science and research through encouraging its greater use in public policymaking. (b)The advancement of education by improving policy outcomes and community wellbeing more generally as a result of linking policymaking and policy processes more closely to research evidence. (c)The advancement of citizenship by encouraging researchers to engage more fully with policymaking processes. (d)The encouragement of equality and diversity by supporting new voices from research to engage with policy.
Operations:
What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:
We exist to strengthen the capabilities of the research and governance communities in Scotland to engage with each other, to meaningfully collaborate, and to make decisions that centre equity. We do this by working with key stakeholders across the Scottish and UK research-policy landscape to: 1) develop and deliver learning events, resources and provide other forms of support, 2) co-create and disseminate opportunities to engage, 3) develop, maintain and support networks and relationships, and 4) innovate knowledge mobilisation practice.
Charity Status: Active
Constitutional Form: SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
Constitutional Form Date: 23 Jun 2022
Main Operating Location: Fife
Number of Staff: 2
Number of Charity Trustees: 7
Number of Volunteers: 0
Purposes: "the advancement of education", "the advancement of citizenship or community development", "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
30 Jun 2023 £191,003 £75,472 28 Mar 2024 Yes
31 Mar 2024 £69,253 £78,729 19 Dec 2024 Yes
31 Mar 2025 £152,600 £132,032 18 Dec 2025 Yes Download
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Income and Expenditure:
Charity Trustees:
First Name Last Name
No charity trustee information available
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