## **APPENDIX 1**
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Office of the Scottish **Charity Regulator**
## **Reference and administration details**
> **Charity name** Russian-speaking Edinburgh **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number SC** 052646
> **Charity’s principal address** 1/12 Roseburn Maltings Edinburgh
> **Postcode** EH12 5LY
**Names of the charity trustees on date of approval of Trustees’ Annual Report**
|Maxim Zavgorodniy|Chair|||
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|Elena Samoletova|Treasurer|Since June 2025||
|Jaan Ratsep|Secretary|||
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|Salima Davlidova||Since June 2025||
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## **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)**
|**Name**|**Name**|**Dates acted if not for whole year**|
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|Sergey Suslenkov||Resigned June 2025|
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|Anna Taleb||Resigned June 2025|
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|Mikhail Myasin||Resigned June 2025|
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|**Structure, governance and management**|||
|**Type of governing document**
**Trustee recruitment and appointment**|||
||Constitution||
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Annual General Meeting (usually in late spring or early
summer)||
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|**Objectives and activities**|||
|**Charitable purposes**
**Summary of the main activities**
**in relation to these objects**|||
||Russian-speaking Edinburgh provides educational and cultural||
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services in support of the Russian-speaking community across Edinburgh
and the wider region.
Our main activity is weekly Saturday classes for children, aimed to foster
young learners' language skills and cultural awareness.
We also host social and cultural events for the Russian-speaking
community alongside everyone interested in Russian language and cultural
heritage.||
||We offer Russian language education for children and adults across Scotland, with most of||
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our learners coming from Edinburgh, the Lothians, Borders, Stirling, and parts of Fife. We
mostly focus on in-person classes taking place at St George's School for Girls where we also
hold social and cultural events throughout the year.
We support children from mostly bilingual and multilingual backgrounds as well as the wider
Russian-speaking community by joint cultural activities (excursions, performances, contests,
parties). We also maintain an extensive lending library with resources for both children and
adults, making Russian language and culture heritage accessible to everyone.
Additionally, we support formal Russian language education by providing tuition for recognised
qualifications, including GCSE and A-level exams.||
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## **Achievements and performance**
> **Summary of the main achievements of** SCIO "Russian-speaking Edinburgh" (SC052646) is **the charity during the financial period** established to replace the existing unincorporated charity "Russian Edinburgh" (SC036049) and to transfer all its activities to the incorporated body. However, setting up a bank account for the new organisation took a significant time, thus no activities were carried out and no funds were moved during this financial period. During this period, "Russian-speaking Edinburgh" was being prepared to undertake all activities from the predecessor charity "Russian Edinburgh".
## **Financial review**
|**Brief statement of the charity’s policy**
**on reserves**
**Details of any deficit**
**Donated facilities and services (if any)**|Russian-speaking Edinburgh aims to maintain a sustainable level of|
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reserves to allow the organisation to absorb increases in expenditure,
such as salary and rent increases, fees subsidies for low-income members,
subsidies for extracurricular activities for members, increased need for
teaching and learning materials etc. These reserves should allow
us to keep the membership fees affordable and relatively stable. Reserves
should be maintained at the level between 1/3 and 100% of the previous
financial year's expenditure. The Committee of Trustees aims to reinvest
the funds mentioned above into further development of our services.|
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## **Other optional information**
## **Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees**
**Signature(s)** _**OSCR will accept digital or typed**_ Maxim Zavgorodniy Elena Samoletova _**signatures**_ **Full name(s)** Maxim Zavgorodniy Elena Samoletova **Position (e.g. Chair)** Chair Treasurer **Date** 31/03/2026 31/03/2026
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