# **THE AVENIR CHARITY SCIO** (Charity No. SC052573) **TRUSTEES’ ANNUAL REPORT** # **FOR** **THE YEAR ENDED 5[th] APRIL 2025** THE AVENIR CHARITY SCIO |_||__Periodstartdate| = |_—~Periodenddate OSCE Day | Month | Year | | Day _| Month _| Year _| Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator —restcode KATA ## Names of the charity trustees on date of approval of Trustees’ Annual Report **----- Start of picture text -----**
Trustee name Office (if any) oto anakWyyear (or body} entitled to
appoint trustee (if any)
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## THE AVENIR CHARITY SCIO ## Reference and administration details Names of all other charity trustees during the period, if any, (for example, those who resigned part way through the financial period) **----- Start of picture text -----**
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Name [ates][ acted]
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Structure, governance and management
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||||||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Type|of governing|document|The|Charity|is|a|Scottish|Charitable|Incorporated|Organisation|(a|SCIO).|It| |was|registered|in|its|current|legal|form|on|30"|May|2023.| |Trustee|recruitment|and|appointment|Alison|R Thomson|demitted|office|as a|trustee|at the|conclusion|of the|first| |AGM|on|27th|August 2024.|In|terms|of clause|23|of the|charity's| |constitution|she|is deemed|to|have|been|re-elected|as a|trustee|at the| |next|meeting|of the|trustees.| **----- End of picture text -----**
## Objectives and activities **----- Start of picture text -----**
||||||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Charitable|purposes|The|organisation's|purposes|are:|(i) The|awarding|of educational|travel| |scholarships|in|all|parts|of the|world|to|individuals|in|Scotland|of|both| |sexes|under|the|age|of Thirty five|years|(but|with|absolute|discretion|to|the| |Trustees|to|award|scholarships|to|candidates|of Thirty|five|years|of age| |and|over|if and|when|it may seem|to them|appropriate|to|do|so),|provided| |always|that those|to whom|scholarships|are|awarded|shall|have|either| |practical|or academic|qualifications|(or|both)|in|land|based|industries| |which|for|this|purpose|includes|agriculture,|horticulture,|aquaculture|and| |ancillary|industries|or|professions|associated|with|each|of these,|and|food| |production|("land|based|industries"),|preference|being|given|to|candidates| |having|a|sound|practical|basis|of experience|in|land|based|industries| |which|can|be|beneficially extended|by|travel|to|the|end|that|on|return|they| |will|be|able|to|use|the|experience|gained|in|travel|in|a|practical|way.| |(ii)|The|making|of grants|to|such|other|charitable|purposes|(including| |charitable|foundations)|already|recognised|in|law as|charitable,|along|with| |other|purposes|analogous|to,|or|within|the|spirit|of,|purposes|that|are| |recognised|as|charitable,|as|the|trustees|shall,|in|their|absolute|discretion,| |determine.| |Summary|of the|main|activities|During|the|year the|charity|supported|a|number|of organisations|both| |in|relation|to|these|objects|locally|and|nationally|in|line|with|our|charitable|purpose.| |2| **----- End of picture text -----**
THE AVENIR CHARITY SCIO ## Achievements and performance **----- Start of picture text -----**
||||||||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Summary|of the|main|achievements|of|||Total|receipts|of the|charity|this|year amounted|to £875,|made|up|of| |the|charity during|the|financial|period|||donations|of £700|and|gift|aid|recovered|on|these|of £175.| |During|the|year|grants|to|a|total|of £500|were|distributed|by the|charity as| |follows:| |My|Name'5|Doddie|Foundation|(SC047871)|£100| |Finding|Your|Feet|(SC044572)|£100| |Beatson|Cancer|Charity|(SC044442)|£100| |Scotland's|Charity|Air Ambulance|(SC041845)|£100| |The|Royal|Scottish|Agricultural|Benevolent|Institution|(SC009828)|£100| |After|expenses|incurred|in|the|year|of £11|the|funds|held|at|5|April|2025| |amounted|to|£589.|These|are|all|unrestricted|funds.| **----- End of picture text -----**
## Financial review **----- Start of picture text -----**
||||||||||||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |Brief statement|of the|charity’s|policy|||At|present,|given|the|purposes|and|structure|of the|charity,|it|has a| |on|reserves|minimum|requirement|for|cash|reserves|and|those|held|at|5|April|2025|of| |£589|are|sufficient|for|its|current|purposes.| |Details|of any|deficit|There was|no|deficit|during|this|financial|year.| |Donated|facilities|and|services|(if any)|||No donated|facilities and|or services were|used|during|the|year.| **----- End of picture text -----**
3 THE AVENIR CHARITY SCIO ## Other optional information **----- Start of picture text -----**
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.
Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees
Signature(s)
Full name(s)
Position (e.g. Chair) | Chair
Date 3/09/2025
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4 **THE AVENIR CHARITY SCIO** |||||**Receipts andpayments accounts**|**Receipts andpayments accounts**|**Receipts andpayments accounts**|**Receipts andpayments accounts**|**Receipts andpayments accounts**|**Receipts andpayments accounts**|**Receipts andpayments accounts**|**Receipts andpayments accounts**|**Receipts andpayments accounts**|**Receipts andpayments accounts**|**Receipts andpayments accounts**|**Receipts andpayments accounts**|**Receipts andpayments accounts**|**Receipts andpayments accounts**|||||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||||||||Period start date|||||||||Period end date|Period end date|||||||| |||**For the period**
**from**|||6
30Day||April
Month||Month|||2024
Year|**to**|Day
5||April|||||Year
2025|||| |**Section A Statement of receipts and payments**||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||**Unrestricted**
**funds**|||**Restricted**
**funds**||||**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**|||||**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**||||**Total funds**
**current period**|||||**Total funds last**
**period**|**Total funds last**| |||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**||||**to nearest £**|||||**to nearest £**||||**to nearest £**||**to nearest £**|||**to nearest £**|**to nearest £**| |**A1 Receipts**||||||||||||||||||||||||| |Donations||**700**|**700**|||||||||||||||**700**|**700**|**700**|**700**||**500**|**500**| |Legacies||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| |Grants||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| |Receipts from fundraisingactivities||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| |Gross tradingreceipts||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| |Income from investments other than||||||||||||||||||||||||| |land and buildings||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| |Rents from land & buildings||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| |Gross receipts from other charitable||||||||||||||||||||||||| |activities||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| |Gift Aid recovered on donations||**175**|**175**|||||||||||||||**175**|**175**|**175**|**175**||**125**|**125**| |**_A1 Sub total_**|**_A1 Sub total_**|**875**|**875**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**875**|**875**|**875**|**875**||**625**|**625**| |**A2 Receipts from asset &**||||||||||||||||||||||||| |**investment sales**||||||||||||||||||||||||| |Proceeds from sale of fixed assets
Proceeds from sale of investments
**_A2 Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**_Total receipts_ 875**
**-**
**-**
~~—~~||||||||||||||**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**|**-**
**-**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**875**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**875**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**875**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**875**||**-**
**-**
**-**
**625**|**-**
**-**
**-**
**625**| |**A3 Payments**||||||||||||||||||||||||| |Expenses for fundraising activities||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| |Gross trading payments||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| |Investment management costs||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| |Payments relating directly to charitable|Payments relating directly to charitable|||||||||||||||||||||||| |activities||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| |Grants and donations||**500**|**500**|||||||||||||||**500**|**500**|**500**|**500**||**400**|**400**| |Governance costs:||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| |Audit / independent examination||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| |Preparation of annual accounts||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| |Legal costs||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| |Other|Other|Other**11**|**11**|||||||||||||||**11**|**11**|**11**|**11**||**-**|**-**| |||||||||||||||||||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**| |**_A3 Sub total_ **||**511**|**511**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**|**-**||**-**|**-**|**-**||**511**|**511**|**511**|**511**||**400**|**400**| |**A4 Payments relating to asset and**||||||||||||||||||||||||| |**investment movements**||||||||||||||||||||||||| |Purchases of fixed assets
**-**
**-**
Purchase of investments
**-**
**-**
**_A4 Sub total_ -**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**_Total payments_ 511**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**511**
**400**
~~——_=—==~~||||||||||||||||||||||||| |**_Net receipts / (payments)_**
**A5 Transfers to / (from) funds**
**_Surplus / (deficit) for year_**|**364**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**364**
**225**
**-**
**364**
**-**
**-**
**-**
**364**
**225**
~~==>~~|||||||||||||||||||||||| **5** **THE AVENIR CHARITY SCIO** ## **Section B Statement of balances** |**Categories**
**Signed by one or two trustees**
**on behalf of all the trustees**
**B1 Cash funds**
**B3 Other assets**
**B5 Contingent liabilities**
**B4 Liabilities**
**B2 Investments**|**Details**|**Unrestricted**
**funds**
**to nearest £**
**225**
**364**|**Restricted funds**
**to nearest £**|**Expendable**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Permanent**
**endowment**
**funds**
**to nearest £**|**Total current**
**period**
**to nearest £**|**Total last period**
**to nearest £**| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| ||Cash and bank balances at start of year|||||**225**|**-**| ||Surplus / (deficit) shown on receipts and
payments account|||||**364**|**225**| |||||||**-**|**-**| |||||||**-**|**-**| ||**Cash and bank balances at end of year**
**Details**|**589**|**-**|**-**|**-**|**589**|**225**| |||||**Fund to which**|**asset belongs**|**Market valuation**
**to nearest £**|**Last year**
**to nearest £**| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||**Details**||**Fund to which**|**asset belongs**|**Total**
**Cost (if available)**
**to nearest £**|**-**|
**-**| |||||||**Current value (if**
**available)**
**to nearest £**|**Last year**
**to nearest £**| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||**Details**|||**Total**
**-**
**Fund to which liability relates**|**-**|
**-**|
**-**| |||||||**Amount due**
**to nearest £**|**Last year**
**to nearest £**| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||**Details**|||**Total**
**Fund to which liability relates**||**-**|**-**| |||||||**Amount due**
**(estimate)**
**to nearest £**|**Last year**
**to nearest £**| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||||||||| ||**Signature**|||**Total**
**Print Name**||**-**|
**-**| ||||||||**Date of**
**approval**| ||||||||03/09/2025| ||||||||| **6** **THE AVENIR CHARITY SCIO** ## **Section C Notes to the Accounts** |**C3a Trustee remuneration**
**C4a Trustee expenses**
**C3b Trustee remuneration -**
**details**
**C4b Trustee expenses -**
**details**
**C6 Other information**
**C5 Transactions with**
**trustees and connected**
**persons**
**C1 Nature and purpose of**
**funds**_(may be stated on_
_analysis of funds worksheets)_
**C2 Grants**|All funds are unrestricted funds.|All funds are unrestricted funds.|||| |---|---|---|---|---|---| ||The Royal Scottish Agricultural Benevolent Institution(SC009828)
Beatson Cancer Charity (SC044442)
**Type of activity or project supported**
MyName'5 Doddie Foundation(SC047871)
FindingYour Feet(SC044572)
Scotland's CharityAir Ambulance(SC041845)||**Individual /**
**institution**
institution
institution
institution
institution
institution|**Number of**
**grants**
**£**|| |||||1|**100**| |||||1|**100**| |||||1|**100**| |||||1|**100**| |||||1|**100**| |||||**Total**|**500**
| ||||||| ||If no remuneration was paid during the period to any charity trustee or person connected to a
trustee cross this box (otherwise complete section 3b)||||**X**| ||**Authority under which paid**||||**£**| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||If no expenses were paid to any charity trustee during the period then cross this box (otherwise
complete section 4b)||||**X**| |||**Nature of transaction**||**Number of**
**trustees**|**£**| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||**Nature of relationship**|||**Transactio**
**n amount**
**(£)**|**Balance**
**outstanding at**
**period end (£)**| |||||**nil**|
**nil**| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||||||| ||none||||| **7** **THE AVENIR CHARITY SCIO** ## **Independent examiner’s report on the accounts V2** **Report to the trustees/members of** The Avenir Charity SCIO |**trustees/members of**
The Avenir Charity SCIO|The Avenir Charity SCIO|The Avenir Charity SCIO|||||| |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| |**Registered charity**|SC052573||||||| |**number**|||||||| |**On the accounts of the**||Period start date|Period start date|||Period end date|| |**charity for the period**|Day|Month|Year||Day|Month|Year| ||06|April|2024|**to**|05|April|2025| |**Set out on pages**|5 to 7||||||| |**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) 2005 Act and the
Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (as amended). The charity trustees|The charity’s trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance
with the terms of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) 2005 Act and the
Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (as amended). The charity trustees|The charity’s trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance
with the terms of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) 2005 Act and the
Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (as amended). The charity trustees| |---|---|---|---| ||consider that the audit requirement of Regulation 10(1) (d) of the Accounts Regulations|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 2006 Accounts
Regulations. 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||| ||1.
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|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||| ||2. to which, in my opinion, attention should be drawn in order to enable a proper||| ||understanding of the accounts to be reached.||| |**Signed:**|**Date:**||16/10/2025| **Name: Relevant professional qualification(s) or body (if any): Address:** Kelly Tax Services Ltd., New Alderston House, Dove Wynd, Bellshill, ML4 3AD