## **CAMScot**
**Trustees’ Annual Report** From 24/07/2024 to 31/07/2025
## **Charity contact information**
Charity name: CAMScot
Scottish Charity Number: SC053530
## **Charity Trustees**
No changes in the period
## Objectives and activities
## Purpose of the Charity
The advancement of education by widening access to university education, in particular encouraging applications to the University of Cambridge from those who are from groups underrepresented at that university, and supporting and encouraging without charge their applications to that university through mentoring and interview coaching by current undergraduate and alumni volunteers.
## Primary Beneficiaries
Pupils in Scottish Secondary Schools applying to Cambridge University. 60 pupils registered with CAMScot for support in 2024-25; 56 proceeded to mentoring and 45 proceeded to mock interviews and — it is assumed — application.
## Structure, governance and management
## Type of governing document
## Constitution
Trustee recruitment and appointment
The charity was officially registered on 24" July, 2024. The current Trustees were also the initial Trustees appointed in line with the Constitution.
## Achievements and performance
## Outputs 2024-2025
From a signed up volunteer base of around 170 alumni we delivered one-to-one online mentoring and two-to-one on-line mock interview practice to the prospective applicants.
## Outcomes 2024-2025
All enrolled school pupils were given practice in critical thinking.
30 of our registered applicants were invited for interview and 11 were offered places at Cambridge University. (The University made a total of 67 offers to students from Scottish schools in 2024 against 323 applications ).
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## Impact
All our registrants were surveyed on how helpful CAMScot support was. Against a maximum score of 5 the average across all returns was 4.5. Most found the experience worthwhile even if they did not get an offer from the University.
## Financial review
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CAMScot Receipts & Payments
£2,500.00
£2,000.00
£1,500.00
£1,000.00
£500.00£0.00 fo
Receipts Payments Balance
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|BankofScotland CharityAccount Sortcode||code80-22-60|||Account|28055964|
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|||Receipts|Payments|Balance|Purpose|Doc. Attached|
|OpeningBalance||||£0.00||BankState.|
|16/04/2025|Chair|£100.00||£100.00||BankState.|
|02/05/2025|Chair|£900.00||£1,000.00||BankState.|
|19/05/2025|Foundation Scotland|£1,000.00||£2,000.00||BankState.|
|05/06/2025|NicolaTheaker||£1,500.00|£500.00|Software|Invoice|
|||£2,000.00|£1,500.00|£500.00|||
The charity operates largely without either receipts or payments. Services, including all aspects of administration, are provided free of charge on a voluntary basis.
It was decided in 2025, however, that money should be raised and deployed for improvements to the software used to match mentors and mentees and interviewers and interviewees. A bank account was opened and initially funded by the Chair. Further funds came from a grant from Foundation Scotland.
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A payment of £1,500 was made to Nicola Theaker as indicated for software services.
The charity has no policy on reserves beyond maintaining the account always in credit.
Donated facilities and services
All activities - including mentoring, interview practice and general administration - are undertaken on a voluntary basis.
## Future plans
The charity will continue to offer the same services from the same volunteer base to the same beneficiaries.
## Declaration
Signed on behalf of the charity trustees:
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Designation; ; Chair
06/02/2026
Date
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## APPENDIX
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Scottish Charity Regulator
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Independent examiner’s report on the accounts ~
Report to the CAMScot
trustees/members of
Registered charity SC053530
number
On the accounts of the Period start date Period end date
charity for the period Da Month Year Da Month Year
24 07 2024 to 31 07 2025
Respective the charity's trustees are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance
responsibilities Of with the terms of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) 2005 Act and the
trustees and examiner Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (as amended). 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 My examination is carried out in accordance with Regulation 11 of the 2006 Accounts
examiner’s statement 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, | do
not express an audit opinion on the view given by the accounts.
Independent examiner’s jn the course of my examination, no matter has come to my attention
statement
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
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: 04/02/2026
Name:
Relevant professional |
qualification(s) or body CA Retired
(if any): Institute of Chartered Accountants (Scotland)
Adress:
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