.SKYLAB
www.theskylab.org.uk
theSKYLAB SCIO
Scottish Charity No- SC043327
Annual Report and Financial Statements for
the year ended 31st December 2024

Trustees. Annual Re
YE2024
For the year ended 31° 1)e¢ember 2024
The trustees have pleasure in presenting their report together with the financial 5tatement5 fDr the
year ended 31 December 2024.
Reference and Admlntstrat5¥e Infoimatlon
Charlty name
IheSKYLAB
Charity no
SC043327
Address
Structure. Governance and Ma￿geMent
Trustees have been appointed to hold the below positions
AGMS are helly annually wlth quarter￿ meetings with all trustees Invlted and notes recorded or
sumrnarised by emailldocumenVtext/whatsApp. Decislons are taken collectivefy with Geoff Comon
lartlng also as CEO under trustees agreement) having the final decision IF required. Major decisions
requlre a Quorum
Constotutlon
The Charity is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (a SCIOI. It 74Yas registered in its
current legal form on 30 Jul¥ 2012 and it has a single tier structure where trustees are members.

Appointment of trustees
Trustees are appointed by the board and after only after consultation and unanimous decision that
they are In the best interests of the tharity and its objective5. Tru5tee5 can give iheir intent to
join/resign by writin& email andlor in person and notes of their appointment are made at the AGM
avor around the annual return to 05CR and the a¢tomp3nying anrnual report arml financial
statements for that year end.
In 2024 no tfUStees were appointed or re518ned.
Objectives and Acti¥iiles
The charitable purposes and activities are to engage, inspire and guide young people, their families
and communitie5 towards the role of STEM (Scien￿. Technology. Engineering and Maths) in careers.
Society and their li¥e5. We aim to help educate and inforrn these groups whilst also using STEM as a
platform to outreach heritage, arts and ertable people from a variety of backgrounds (elderly.
disabled, arnied Forces veterans, people all ethnic backgrounds etc..) to engage in all of these
activities. Our activities are all inclusNe.
Specifically we carry out our charitable activities in the below ways.
11 Developing STEM based y￿rkshopS vtili5ing important, timely technology to corKeptualise
the real life topic of interest
21 Develop education resources. products and platfoms to outreach ourselves in workshops or
with other likeminded partnerslorganisations
31 Developing and delNerin8 woikshops and shows ata variety of xhool. communrty and other
social or other organisation events.
41 Developing work5hop5. CPD and resources on line. digitally. in hard paper copy or as physical
kits for or8anisations, our own use Qr for partnership with other likeminded bodie5.
51 These actrrfitles OCCUf/or can occur aeross the UK and kh)tentially oversea5.
Financial Review for period & the Inter￿tional Ayr Show Festbval of fiiEht 1023
Pleasingly. at the end of Septembew 2022 theSKYLAB was successful in winning a PCS bid to become
the strategic partner Vthllth South Ayrshire Counc¢l to create arKI delNer a STEM based air5how. This
initial two year contrart enabled the 2024 period to afford 8 salary of £24,oixI for our CEO. Dr Geoff
Coxon and has enabled theSKYLAB to gain SiEnificaTrt confidence in its financial posit￿n overall to
facilitate it5 core activitie5 Wlth the plarform of Scotlands only rnajor airshow. Indeed the onlv
airshow in the UK, or the world, which is strategically designed around STÉM including the air displav
programme itself.
The full details of financial transaciions can be found in our suprorting paperwork to OSCR but in
sumrnary we had a deficit for the YE24 of £15340. Income was at £35119 for the year.
In terms of our balance sheet. our 5antsnder bank stalement at year end correspondingly stands at
£23,224 Nwth approximately £3800 value of assets including equipment, STEM projert consumables
and educational resource5 in stock and storage cabirn.

These figures leave us in a significantly stronger position with reserves Sufficient for flexibility in
challenging financial times across the third sertor. However, with the Success of the International
Ayr Show Festwal of Flight, we have resumed a very healthy position.
plans for future perlod
There is no doubt that our partnership with South Ayrshire Council has continued to be a success.
and through 2025. and hopefully ￿yond, will yield a ¥ery positive outlook for theSKYLAB. The
Success of event, the Internarional acclaim with the event reaching 15 milllon people 8lobally,
260.000 publlc crowd and bein8 Scotland's. if not the UKS biggest free event, cannot be argued. It
also generated an economic income of £7.9 million for Ayr and the surrounding area, as wèll as
enabling a number of key global Aerospace companies to outreach STEM career possibilit￿5 to tens
of thousands of young people and their familie5. theSKYLAB will maintain this sole direction moving
forward. with our eyes Still open to other opportuniti
This achievement alorv8 with the creation of Airshow ZERO- ha5 placed our CEO in the same regard
as CEOS of RIAT. Famborough and other UK airshows as e¥idenced by recent attendance at the
British air Oisplay Consortium at MOD Shrivenham in March 2024. Indeed Dr Coxon was selected as
one of the 12 members of the British Air Display Association {8ADAI to further support and advocate
STEM in aviation. We th"Il have held CEO salary at £24.(KJO as we monitor the stability of the publlc
funding. But there 15 no doubt that for the impatt of the role. a salary increase is justified ar)d this
will be a focus for 2025.
theSKYLAB will look to make key collaborathJns with other likeminded organisations to develop a
route to irKome from donations and other fundraising activity. Ideas and development through 2024
have been looking at ways to capitalise on the aviation connections and development of projects
that look at the building, p￿entatIOn and selling/aurtion of high spec rnodel aircraft kits (Airfi
Tamiya. Trumpeter.. etc..) at key charity events. Also to look at way5 we can link with engineering
Veterans in such activities both to raise lunds and support the cornrnunity within our STEM heritage
remit of aviatiorb.
Key to this we wll Icmjk broader afield for trustees, patronage and govemance as we juxtap0s1t￿n in
our position within the STEM sertor.
15th" September 2025

INDEPENDENT EXAMINER'S REPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF THE SKYLAB
I report on the accounts for the year ended 31 December 2024 set out on pages five to ten.
Respective responsibilities of trustees and examiTrEr
The charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the
terms of the Charitie5 and Trustee Investment lkntlandl A(t 2￿5 and the Charities Accounts
Iscotlandl Regulations 2006. The charity's trustees consider that the audit requirement of Regulation
Iolllldl of the Accounts Regulations does not apply. It 15 my responsibility to examine the accounts
as required under Section 44llllcl of the Act and to stste whether particular matter5 have come lo
my attention.
8asis of the independent e￿MIne￿5 report
My examination was carried OLrt in accordance wilh Regulation 11 of the Charitie5 Accounts
Iscotlandl Regulation5 2¢J)6. An examination include5 a review of the accounting records kept by the
charity and a comparison of the accounts presented with t￿se records. It also includes
consideration of any unusual itern5 or disclosures in the account5, and seeking explanations from
you as trustee5 concerning any such matter5. The procedures undertaken Ilo not provide all the
evidence that would be requireql in an audiL and consequently I do not expre55 an audit opinion on
the view 8i¥en by the accounts.
Independent exarniner's 51atement
In connertion with my examination. no maller has come to my artention:
which gives me reasonable cause to believe thaL in any matenal respec¢ the requirements
to keep accounting records in accordance with Sertion 44(Illal of the 2tK15 Act arKI
Regulation 4 of the 21X)6 Accounts Regulations: and
to prepare accounts which a¢¢ord with the accounting records and to comply with
Regulation 9 of the 2CK16 AccouTrts ReBulations
have not been met; or
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to which, my oplnion. attention should be drawn in order io enable a proper
of the accounts to be reached.
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