Reglsterod Charity Number SC050485 Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies SCOTS Scottish Charftsble Incorporated Organi3ation . SC050485 Report and Flnanclal Stat8monts For the yoar ended 30 September 2024 Scottish Centre of Tagore Studios SCOTS Contents Pago Legal and admwiistrative infomialion Trusta6s rèport A¢hievemenls aTrd frJlure plans R￿Ipts and Paymenls Ac¢ounl th Statement of Balances Notes to the 8ccounts Ind8pandent examineffs repott Scottish Centre of Tagore Studlos SCOTS Legal and administratlve Inforrnation Board M¢mberTrustgOS Charity number SC050485 Coniact Chwi Trustee 8KoTs webslle arKI e-journal m8nagkryg director hllwllscotstagore.org and e-journal Gitanjali and Beyond https."lJgildnjaliandbeyond.ac.uk Scottish princlpal offi UN Hi)use Scotland 4413 Frederick Slreet Edinburgh EH2 1 EX Bankers The Co-oparative Bank 29 Gordon Street Gla.qgnw G1 3PF Independent examiner Scott(sh Contrg of Tagorg Studlg8 Report of the Trustees for the y•ar andad 30th Soptombor 2024 Introduction The tnjstees present their second annual report and accounts for the year ended 30 September 2024. The legal and administrative infomiation given on page 1 fomis part of this repDrt. Obloctive$ and A¢tivitie8 of the Charity Fomied on 18, September 2020 88 a s￿ttISh char((able incorporated organisalion. the funclions of ScoTs in pursuing its purposes 8re. in accordance with the principle objects of its constitution.. To build on Rabindranaih Tagore's legacy and maintain a continuum with h1$ vision through an exchange of ideas, sharing infomalton 2nd kno￿edg@ and developing a research in8ti1ute. 10 suppon 8 cenire as an Int6rnaiic￿￿l nuD ior conne￿Ing sGnoiars ana anisrs gioDaiw aeo￿ale￿ to working with the idea8 arKI work of Rabindrenalh Ta￿re and his c4rGle and those who Continue to ¢arry forward these ideas through their research arvJ VK)rk. FINANCIAL REVIEW AND RESERVES POLICY Th& charity began its year with the startup sum of £920 in the bank, to whKh receipts of £21,820 were added, making £22.74D available. Payments of £7,336 We￿ made Mlhin the financial year, leav￿9 £15,404 to cary fo￿ard. Due to the Tagore Geddes Fe8tNal taking place at the end of the financial year, a note has been made of both rekted paymen15 and grant being settled in the first quarter of the next year. Donated services an¢J benefits in land amounted to an e$limaled £3,300. The issue of re3erves ad&]uale for a Cultu￿ charity such as SCOTS will be dealt with In the years ahead. A full report on the charity'8 a¢hievement8 and future plans is given on pages 3 10 5. RISKS TO WHICH THE CHARITY IS EXPOSED The Trustees Gonsider that due lo Jls small sizè and its simplicity there is no material risk to which il is expo¥eeJ. The situation wlll be ravi@wed periodicalty. STATEMENT OF TRUSTEES. RESPONSIBILITIES The trustee5 are responsible for maintaining proper accounting records which disdose vJith reasonable accuracy at any time the financial posfilfion of thè charity and which are $ufficient to show and explain Ihe charity's Iransacltons and enable them to en8ure Ihat the financial ststements comply with regulations made under the Charilres Act. They are a150 responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charity and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and delection of f(aud and other irregularities. The truslees are also responsible for the contents of the trustees. report, and the re5pon5ibility of the independenl eX￿In￿r in rel&tit)n to Ihe Iruslees. report ts limited to examining the report and ensuring that, on th8 face of the report, there are no in(x)nsistencies with Ihe figures dFsclosed in the financial stslements. This report Was 8pproved by a meeting of Iruslees on ril 2025 Trusteg Scottish Centre of Studies (Scols) Ileport of the Tru¥tett for the yellr ended on 30 September 2024 1lltroduL'ti￿n Th¢ Irust¢es present theiT third alln￿￿ report for the year which ended on 30 S¢plcmbcr 2024. The legal and administrative inforn￿tiOn given on p. I, fonns part of the re￿rt. Activities and Aebievemenls A Cooperation Agreement betw¢¢n SCOTS gnd Swami Vivekanand& Univeraity {SVU), BarrdLkwre, Wesi Bengal, India, signed on 29 September 2023. It was initiated by the inh￿d￿Ction of a certifiLate couts¢ in Tagore 8IuLlies ai SVU. The'l agore Contre was inaugurated 2023. n 21 November 'I'he Togore Gedd￿ *estivol was opdanised in Edinburgh for thr firsi time by Sco Is on the thcmc: 'F"orcsL8 are our I,uture.' tjy l.eaves we Live,. It preseiited a beautiful danc£ dr£tmu, entitled Pal(Jsh.. Flawe ofthe Forest. which w&8 developed, cOmFK)￿d and perfornied by a cr¢ative lean] of professional artists and presented on 28 S¢ptcmb¢r 2024 at the.10￿ b'lcming Celltre in Edinburgh. ￿ fikn. Days and Nights in the FO￿&t was screened as part of th¢ Tagore Geddes Feslivol on 29 S¢ptember 2024, followed b￿[￿ Ihe nresi Again at the George Square Campus of the University c)f P.dinburgFL Bi)th films were folloivcd by seminar.% and QIA sessi()ns With Film Directors, lJecthr¢s delivered on behalf of .ScnT5 JJecthre,f delivered by Professor BtLshabi Tr-rnjer. 'A C:onstellation and the Modern Illdian Consciousncss. . Lecturc on Tagore, Geddes and JC Bos4 at thc Acharya Bl)avaT4 Kolkats on 12 r)ccember 2021. 'Tagore's EnvtrornneDtal Consciousncs8' at New Aliporc Lollcg4 Kolkata on 15 December 2023 (dclivered on ZOOM). 'N&tion, Internation and TransJ)ation: C.ulture, Society and Politic8 in Tagore and his cont¢M￿raries, at International Tagore COnfc￿nCC at SwaJni Vivckananda lJniver8ity, held on 16 June 2024. 'R&bindrnnath Tagore's Fleaven of Freedom,, Moravian Univ¢r6ity: Distinguished LectUTC Series on 2 April 2024. The Primacy of c￿&tivIty in University of California Bcrkclcy. knya fvfitra Das TagoTe Lecttwe on 4 April 2024. ,i8 Thinker and Pra￿n￿tiSt, LeCt￿e for Thackeray Society. Reforn] Club, London, 25 April 2024. Lecture by Profas.¥or Murdu Macdonald.. Inl¢rnalional LocalisEtt for SLotIand's Celtic Renascence- Local, National and Internalii)nal', tor'llie Scottish Society for Art HistOL)' in &8soLiatiun with th¢ Association for Art History's Art Ilistory I,'&stival on 17 September 2024. Lecture by Dr Poyal Mukheriee.. 'Tagotc and Gcddcs: An Aesihttic l.ricndship aiid the Quest for l(nowledge Spaces, at Instiluie forAdvartced St[￿1¢5 in th¢ Huthanitics OASID, lJniver8ity of I,'dinburgh on 18 July 2024. SL(bTs Re8e#reh A￿lIlateS I lead of F,.nglish, swami Vivekananda University, I￿￿14 in Edinburgh.. June, 2024. Associate Professor of English. IIIT Delhi, Ad]￿et Faculty, Dept. of Ellgltsty ColleLFe ofArty & Scien￿, Universtty of Saskatchewan, cana￿ irt FAlinburgh: May-July 2014. Associatc Profe&8or in Am¢Tican Literature, UniveLsity of Graz, Au8tria. in ￿.d]nburgh.. August, 2024. (Ho]￿rary Associate Professor, Flinders University, Adelaide. Austtalia). in Edinburgh: luly-August 2024. .geoTt has vided ftccommodation. ho.spiÉality and c(pvered inlernal travel in kindfo a.f ,%'cnt.f Re.search Affiliales. m SCOTS huve nfJPnik7uicd L4SH Fellowships. been nientors of L4SHFel oKps. Research trip: conducltd rcscarLh for SCOTS dl the Dartington Tn7St Lconard l>IMhirstA￿hlv￿ in I'xeter in Augu8t 2024. Funding: CreaEive SrDtl4nd National Litcrnry Open Funding for the Tagore Geddes Feslival organised b}, SCOTS held on 28 and 29 Septemkn 2024: £ 19,080 Funding from the IrLStitute of Advanced Studies of tbe Humanities UASH), Univcrsity of Edinbur¥h for the T Act 2005 an¢ the Charities AcGounts (Scollandl Regulations 2006. The charity trustees constder that the audit requirement of Regulallon 1011} Id) of the Accounts Regulations does not appty. 11 is my responsibility to examine the accounts as required UJKler sectKJn 44 {11 ¢ ol ihe Act and to state whether particular matters have come to my attention. Bas18 of Independent examlnaf8 Stat•m6nt My examination is rarried out in accoréance Regulation 11 of the Charities Account5 {Scollandl Regulations 2006. An examination includ9$ a wiew of the accounting records kept by thé Charity and a comparison of the ￿)unIS presented vAlh those rec4)rds. 11 also includes consideratson of any Ltnusual items or disclosures in the accounts. and Seeks exp1ar￿lI0nS from the trustees conceming any 8uch matters. The procedure5 undertaken do not provlde all the evidence that would be requifed in an audit and consequentty I do not express an oplnlon on the view given in the accounts. Indopandent Examlnerfs Statemgnt In the course of my examination. no matter has come to my attent￿￿ 11 which give5 me rE3sonable cause to believe that, In any material respect. the requirements.. lo keep accounting records in accord8nce with Section 4411) (a) of the 2005 Act 8ThJ Regulation 4 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations. and to prepare accounts wh￿h accord with the accounllng re¢c*ts and com wilh Regulation 9 of lh8 2006 AccounEs Regulations. have not been met. or 2} to which, in my opinion, attent￿n should b6 drawn in order to enable a proppr undersi8nding of the accounts to be reached. Date 17th April 2025