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← The Scottish Mineral and Lapidary Club

2025-09-30-accounts

The Scottish Mineral and Lapidary Club

Trustees’ Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 October 2025

Scottish Charity Number SC051658

Current trustees

Professor Godfrey Fitton (Chair) Professor Mary Bownes Mr Richard Gillanders

Contact address

Scottish Mineral and Lapidary Club, 20 Maritime Lane, Leith EH6 6RZ

Recruitment and appointment of Trustees

Charity Trustees are elected by the Club members at an Annual General Meeting to serve initially for a period of five years. They will be eligible to be reappointed by the members at the AGM every five years.

Governing document

The Club is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO) and the purposes and administration arrangements are set out in the Club Constitution registered on 27 March 2022.

Charitable purposes

The Club's purposes are, for the benefit of the public in Scotland and elsewhere:

  1. to advance education in relation to natural minerals and lapidary, especially those of Scottish interest

  2. to provide training in the craftsmanship of stones, minerals, gemstones and associated silver work, and

  3. to advance the heritage and culture surrounding the Scottish lapidary tradition.

Activities and achievements

The SMLC has had another very active year. Training courses were run on the weekends of January 11/12, April 5/6, July 5/6 and October 4/5, 2025, at which 23 adults and 1 junior were trained. As in previous years, several of our trainees have travelled from other parts of the UK with a view to setting up local lapidary clubs. Our training courses are fully booked through July 2026. Membership remains steady, with 82 full members, 16 associate members, 4 junior members. The Club premises were open to passing visitors most Tuesdays and Saturdays throughout the year.

Our outreach activities included: collecting beach pebbles (with the Scottish Geology Trust) at Wardie Bay (April 15) and Joppa (April 16); a doors-open event during the Leith Festival (June 14-21); doors-open days during the Scottish Geology Festival (September 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30 (Tuesdays) and 6, 13, 20 and 27 (Saturdays); displays at Dynamic Earth (September 15); and the Club was open to visitors in October on 7 (Tuesday), 4 and 11 (Saturday). The SMLC annual ‘at home’ event took place on the weekend of November 5/6.

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Our programme of lectures and field trips have still not yet fully resumed but SMLC members Godfrey Fitton and Mairghread Ellis continue to give public lectures on the making of the Elizabeth Sword and the role of the SMLC in the project.

Trustee remuneration and expenses

The trustees did not receive any remuneration or expenses during the year.

Reserves at 31 October 2025 Valuation of investment portfolio (St. James’s Place) £79548 Bank and PayPal accounts, and cash in hand £9492 Total value £89040

Godfrey Fitton, Chair of Trustees 26 May 2025

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The Scottish Mineral and Lapidary Club

Receipts and Payments Account for the year ended 31 October 2025

Details of income and expenditure are given in the accompanying financial statement. The following is a summary.

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Receipts £
Total receipts 26341
Payments
Total payments 26655
Surplus for year: -314
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Statement of Balances as at 31 October 2025

Bank and cash in hand

Bank and cash in hand
Bank of Scotland Current Account, cash, PayPal credit 9492
Opening balance (1 November 2023) 9806
Surplus foryear -314
Closingbalance(31October2024) 9492

All funds are unrestricted.

Approved by the Trustees and signed on their behalf

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Godfrey Fitton, Chair of Trustees . 26 May 2024

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Independent Examiner’s Report to the Trustees of The Scottish Mineral and Lapidary Club

| report on the accounts of the charity for the year ended 31 October 2023 which are set out on pages 1 to 3 and in the accompanying financial report.

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 | 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

  1. which gives me reasonable cause to believe that in any material respect the requirements:

  2. e to keep accounting records in accordance with Section 44(1) (a) of the 2005 Act and Regulation 4 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations, and

  3. e to prepare accounts which accord with the accounting records and comply with Regulation 9 of the 2006 Accounts Regulations

have not been met, or

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

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