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Peace & Justice

Annual Report and Accounts for the Year ended 31 December 2024

Scottish Charity No: SC 026864

Peace & Justice

Annual Report and Accounts For the Year Ended 31 December 2024

*Contents*	*Page*
Reference & Administrative Information	2
Annual Report of the Trustees	3 - 5
Report of the Independent Examiner	6
Receipts and Payments Account	7
Statement of Balances	8
Notes to the accounts	9 - 10

Peace & Justice

Reference and Administrative information For the Year Ended 31 December 2024

Registered Address:

Peace & Justice 58 Ratcliffe Terrace Edinburgh EH9 1ST

e-mail: admin@peaceandjustice.org.uk

website: www.peaceandjustice.org.uk

Scottish Charity Number:

SC 026864

Management Committee (Trustees):

The following were members of the management committee (trustees of the charity)

Current Trustees

(Convener) (Secretary) (from April 2024)

Trustees who resigned during the year:

(Treasurer – until August 2024) (Treasurer – August to November 2024)

Staff:

(Administration and information officer - until October 2024) (Peacebuilding coordinator - until November 2024)

Independent examiner:

Bankers:

Bank of Scotland Edinburgh Tollcross Branch Princes Exchange 3 Earl Grey Street Edinburgh EH3 9BN

Peace & Justice

Annual Report of the Trustees

For the Year Ended 31 December 2024

The trustees are pleased to present their report and the accounts for the year ended 31 December 2024. The accounts have been prepared on a receipts and payments basis, in accordance with accounting regulations for Scottish charities.

Structure, Governance and Management

Peace & Justice (formerly Edinburgh Peace & Justice Centre) is an unincorporated body, established by constitution in 2010, and is registered as a Scottish Charity (SC 026864). The management of Peace & Justice is entrusted to a Committee elected by the members at the Annual General Meeting or co-opted by the Committee during the year. Further reference and administrative information, including the names of trustees, is shown on page 2.

Charitable Purposes

The principal objects of the Centre are:

i. To promote understanding of methods of conflict resolution, the maintenance of human rights, and the environmental conditions needed for a sustainable world order, doing so by the provision of an information and educational resource centre for the general public and for various charitable bodies that work in the same fields.
ii. to promote the above objects in a way which maintains ethnic, religious, gender and party-political neutrality.

And our Values: Nonviolence, Conflict Resolution, Alternatives to War, Human Rights, Ecological Responsibility.

The objects, powers and restrictions are set out in full in the constitution.

Review of Activities

Joint premises at Words & actions for peace and partnership with Secure Scotland

Peace & Justice (P&J) continue to be based at Words & Actions for Peace (WandA) at 58 Ratcliffe Terrace, sharing responsibility together with Secure Scotland (SeScot) for keeping the space open and welcoming members of the public Monday – Friday, 10am till 4pm. The open shop front allows us to have a public presence, and the centre is also used for meetings and events (P&J, SeScot as well as other community groups).

Our ongoing partnership with SeScot has led to a number of shared events during 2024.

Throughout 2024 we held monthly Sunday lunches at the premises, 12 to 2pm on the last weekend of the month - a simple (home-made) bread & soup lunch along with discussion about the work of the centre and a general friendly chat.

The joint newsletter has proven very popular, with members of the public picking it up in the centre, as well as it being sent to members. Over the year articles written by groups affiliated with P&J have been included, as well as the newsletter providing a channel to share news of the work of the centre.

On 6 June 2024, during the General Election campaign, we hosted a well attended hustings , with a focus on peace, attended by a number of the local candidates.

Peace & Justice Annual Report of the Trustees (contlnued) Review of ActiviTties (continued) In June we also held an inf0m1atn stall {along wrth Sescotl at the annual Edinburgh Meadows Festival. An ideal opportunty to share peacebuilding ideas with the geneTrl public. On October 7th we held a candlelit vigil in WandA. jointly organised by Scottish Palestinian Forum. Sescot and P&J. and supported by some members of the Edinburgh Jemqsh community. The vigil provided a lime to moum and to remember all those killed over the past year in Israel and Palestine. as well as those held by Hamas and in Israel under'adminislrative detention,. ects led b our Peacebuildin Coordinator 1) Peace Garden Project The Peace Garden Project is a collaboration beeen Peace & Justice, Multicultural Family Base. and Bridgend Famihouse, bringing together refvgees (New Scots} and locals through the construckn.on of a garden at Bridgend Farmhouse. The Peace Garden was officially opened on Sunday 18 August by Depute Provost In 2024, a Peace Garden 'steering group, organised a number of workshops Mthich included.. landscaping. garden design, planting. peace pole making, slonelwood bench making. clay modelling. The Peace Garden Project models a seasonal approach to peacebuilding. recognising that we require periods of rest and refeclion to be effects've. The seasonal nature of the garden ensures that any fvre developments have this approach method al its core. 21 Summer Peace Camp The Peace Camp was a collaboration btheen Peace & Justice. Richmond Craigmillar Church. and Camas Outdoor Centre {the lona Community's outdoor activity centre on Mull). P&J took group of young people from Niddrie Irecognised as an area of signrficant social deprivation. consistently ranking among Scotland's most deprived areas according to the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation) to the camp. providing a program of ¢yJtdoor activities with morninglevening peace-relaled reflections. 3151 strangers 51 Strangers aimed lo tsckle loneliness in Edinburgh's student population, linking isolating technology with a rise in online and real-lrfe conflicts. Experimental by nature, the project sought to bring strangers together through a scavenger hunt game which Mark tried out at the Meadows Festival. Unfortunately we struggled to secure any large pots of funding, so development of the project was not possible. Peacebuildin in the Commun P&J continued to Ma Conscientious Objectors day in May 2024, wilh a vigil on Princes Street, and walk to the area in Princes Street Gardens where a tree has been planted to commemorate Conscientious Objectors. The event that was supported by SWILPF, Secure Scotland, and Pax Christi Scotland with thanks to Protest in Harmony for the wonderful music. In July we hosted a showing of Ihe film Where Olive Trees Weep. The documentary film explores themes of loss, trauma. and the quest for justice of the Palestinian eo le under Israeli occupation, following among others Palestinian journalist and therapist grassroots activist Israeli joumalist and Canadian

Peace & Justice Annual Report of the Trustees (contlnued) Revlew of Actlvltles (contlnuedj Our annual Camall Peace Award was awarded to Cloud and Accucilia Maboudi, of the Anglican Pacifist Fellowship, whose work with young people in Zimbabwe promoting peace through poetry & writing is inspirational. We held a well attended night of poetry and song held in the United Augustine Church, on 25 September. The event was supported by loeal poets from Scottish PEN and we heard via video from Cloud and Aecueilia about their work. On Remembrance Sunday we held our traditional Altemative Remembrance Day al the Quaker Meeting House, sharing poems and songs highlighting the folly of war as a solution to conllict. We then walked to the Peace Tree in Princes Street gardens where we 'planted' hthf(e crosses and laid a white poppy wreath. Our final peace event of 2024 was on 10 December when we joined other Scottish peace groups on a torchlight procession from the Scottish Parliament to Queen Elvzabelh House (UK Government Hub in Edinburgh) to mark the Nobel celebrations in Oslo hthere Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese grassroots organisalion of atomic mb suNivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Financial Review Receipts and payments during the year are set out in the statement on page 7. There were net payments of £267 in the year, compared to net payments of £1,896 in the previous year. Income from Grants and donations was significanljy higher than the previous year. This enabled greater expendrture on peace-building projects. We are very gratefvl to all who support the charity through grants. donations. monthly standing orders. gift aid and fvndraising activities. Details of the balances at the start and end of the year are shown on page 8. Balances of £61,671 are carried fornard wf(h £41,474 of this held for restricted funds. Details of the movement on fvnds are shown in note 6 on page 10. Restricted fund balances carried fOard amount to £41,474 including £40,316 for the OWM project. and £798 for the Cranes project. Excluding the balance of £18,948 in the designated fijnd for peaCelU11dIng projects there is a balance of £1.249 remaining in unrestricted funds, which represents the free reserves of the charity. The policy of the charity is to maintain reserves al a level of at least half a year's nomial expendf(ure. The cuent free reserves represent less than 1 month of nomial expenditure. Approved by the Trustees on 11 November 2025 and signed on their behalf by: Tiustee Date: 11 November 2025

Report of the Independent Examiner To the Trustees of Peace & Justice

I report on the accounts of Peace & Justice (the charity) for the year to 31 December 2024, which are set out on pages 7 to 10.

Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiner

The charity’s trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the terms of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and the Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006. The charity trustees consider that the audit requirement of Regulation 10(1) (d) of the Accounts Regulations does not apply. It is my responsibility to examine the accounts as required under section 44(1) (c) of the Act and to state whether particular matters have come to my attention.

Basis of independent examiner's statement

My examination is carried out in accordance with Regulation 11 of the Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006. An examination includes a review of the accounting records kept by the charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with those records. It also includes consideration of any unusual items or disclosures in the accounts and seeks explanations from the trustees concerning any such matters. The procedures undertaken do not provide all the evidence that would be required in an audit, and consequently I do not express an audit opinion on the view given by the accounts.

Independent examiner's statement

In the course of my examination, no matter has come to my attention

which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements:
to keep accounting records in accordance with Section 44(1) (a) of the 2005 Act and Regulation 4 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations, and
to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with Regulation 9 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations

have not been met, or

to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Date: 11 November 2025

Peace & Justice

Statement of Receipts and Payments For the Year Ended 31 December 2024

Unrestricted Note Funds Receipts: £ Membership Subscriptions 5,522 Grants 3 27,634 Donations & fund-raising 4 1,670 Gift aid - Fee income 800 Bank interest 617 Other income 63 Total receipts 36,306 Payments: Staff costs 22,757 Opposing War Memorial direct costs - Peace Camp Peace-building direct costs 10,456 Cranes project direct costs - Resource Materials 544 Events, publicity and printing 421 Office expenses 617 Insurance 1,343 Other expenses 435 Total payments 36,573 Net (payments) / receipts in year (267) Transfers - Net movement in year (267) Balance brought forward 20,464 Balance carried forward 20,197	Restricted Funds £ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 41,474 41,474	Total 2024 £ 5,522 27,634 1,670 - 800 617 63 36,306 22,757 - - 10,456 - 544 421 617 1,343 435 36,573 (267) - (267) 61,938 61,671	Total 2023 £ 5,309 1,000 10,977 4,905 - 455 205
			22,851
			19,650 1,000 - 1,500 500 35 466 598 893 105
			24,747
			(1,896) -
			(1,896) 63,834
			61,938

The notes on pages 10 to 11 form part of these accounts.

Peac8 & Justlce Statement of Balanc8s at 31 December 2024 Unrestricted Restricted Total Total Funds Funds 2024 2023 Funds Reconciliation: Opening funds Net movement in year Closing funds 20,464 12671 20,197 41,474 61,938 1267) 61,671 63,834 11,896} 61,938 41,474 Closing bank & cash balances: CuThent bank account 10,822 9.290 85 10,822 50.764 85 9,769 52,147 22 Deposit bank account PayPal balanee Total closing bank & cash balanc8S 41.474 20,197 41.474 61.671 61,938 2024 2023 Liabilities: Accountancy & independent exarnination HMRC - payToII liabilitE5 Pension liabilrty 900 1,083 125 52 2.108 1.292 Approved by the Trustees on 11 November 2025 and signed on their behalf by: Date: 11 Novernber 2025 Trustee The notes on pages 10 to 11 fomi part of these accounts.

Peace & Justice

Notes to the Accounts For the Year Ended 31 December 2024

1. Basis of accounting

The accounts have been prepared on a receipts and payments basis in accordance with the Charities & Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and the Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (as amended).

2. Nature and purpose of funds

Unrestricted funds can be used in furtherance of any of the charitable objects at the discretion of the trustees. Designated funds are set aside out of unrestricted funds for particular purposes.

Restricted funds can only be used for particular restricted purposes within the objects of the charity. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for particular restricted purposes. Details of each fund are shown in note 6 below.

Unrestricted 3. Grants Funds £ for Peace-building projects Awards for All 10,000 Aviva Community Fund 1,314 Hugh Fraser Foundation 2,000 Scottish Episcopal Church 5,350 Faithful Welcome 500 Southall Trust 1,970 Nancy Massey Trust - for Core costs Pumphouse 4,000 EVOC 2,500 27,634 4. Donations & fund-raising £ for general purposes 1,670 for Peace-building projects - Crowdfunder for Peace-building projects - 1,670	Restricted Funds £ - - - - - - - - - - £ - - - -	Total Total 2024 2023 £ £ 10,000 - 1,314 - 2,000 - 5,350 - 500 - 1,970 - - 1,000 4,000 - 2,500 - 27,634 1,000 £ £ 1,670 520 - 7,500 - 2,957 1,670 10,977

5. Trustees' remuneration and expenses

No remumeration was paid to trustees in the current year and no expenses reimbursed.

Peace & Justice

Notes to the Accounts

For the Year Ended 31 December 2024

6. Movement in Funds *Restricted funds:* Opposing War Memorial Cranes project Weave Community *Total restricted* *Unrestricted funds:* Designated funds Legacy Fund Peace-building projects Total Designated funds General fund *Total unrestricted* *Total funds*	At 1.1.24 £ 40,316 798 360 41,474 2,879 17,585 20,464 - 20,464 61,938	Receipts £ - - - - - 22,084 22,084 14,222 36,306 36,306	Payments £ - - - - - (20,721) (20,721) (15,852) (36,573) (36,573)	Transfers £ - - - - (1,630) (1,630) 1,630 - -	At 31.12.24 £ 40,316 798 360
					41,474
					1,249 18,948
					20,197 -
					20,197
					61,671

Notes:

The role of the Centre as custodian of funds for the Scottish Peace Network ceased in 2018 with the transfer of remaining funds to the SPN. The Centre holds a small fund (£360) on behalf of the Weave Community Edinburgh.

The designated legacy fund arises from a legacy of £50,000 received in 2017 plus a final payment of £9,321 received in 2018.

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