OSCR Scottish charity profile

James Smart Lecture Fund

ActiveCharity number SC021650
Registered5 August 1970
Main locationCity of Edinburgh
Legal formTrust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC021650
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Scotland and other parts of the UK
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
BN3 7AU

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The James Smart Lecture Fund is to be established with the object of promoting the widening and deepening of police thought by means of lectures to be known as the James Smart Lectures and to be delivered annually as aftermentioned on subjects connected with the police including not only the organisation administration and work of the police either in the United Kingdom or elsewhere but also criminology forensic science and the administration of criminal justice in any part of the World In such a way that the Lectures will deal with the original research or otherwise contribute to the wider understanding of police problems practice and experience.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education

Beneficiaries

  • Other defined groups
  • Other charities or voluntary bodies

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations

Constitutional objectives

The James Smart Lecture Fund is to be established with the object of promoting the widening and deepening of police thought by means of lectures to be known as the James Smart Lectures and to be delivered annually as aftermentioned on subjects connected with the police including not only the organisation administration and work of the police either in the United Kingdom or elsewhere but also criminology forensic science and the administration of criminal justice in any part of the World In such a way that the Lectures will deal with the original research or otherwise contribute to the wider understanding of police problems practice and experience.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
5 April 2025£20,584£26,861030 October 2025
5 April 2024£16,367£21,709030 January 2025
5 April 2023£46,044£45,99302 July 2024
5 April 2022£107,403£106,49201 February 2024
5 April 2021£59,773£11,594024 January 2022

Figures are those reported by the charity and supplied in the OSCR bulk download. Blank facts remain distinct from zero.

04 Contact record

Principal office or trustees address

Address supplied to OSCR
Lloyds Bank Private Banking Limited, UKTC Trust Centre, Lloyds Banking Group, Ground Floor, 3 City Park, The Droveway, Hove
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

© Crown Copyright and database right 2026. Contains information from the Scottish Charity Register supplied by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator and licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. BritDB is an independent service and does not claim to be the Scottish Charity Register.