THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM ARTS TRUST

Registered charity 1165602 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as UKSC ARTS TRUST

The Supreme Court Arts Trust (SCAT) was registered as a charity in 2016 to promote public education on the connection between art, law and justice in the context of the UK and the Commonwealth legal systems.The SCAT intends to act as a platform for the presentation of historical, current, and thematic case-studies of legal subjects to a wide public audience.

Objects

TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC, IN PARTICULAR IN RELATION TO ART; THE CONNECTION BETWEEN ART AND LEGAL INSTITUTIONS OF, OR ASSOCIATED WITH, THE UNITED KINGDOM AND THE HISTORY AND OPERATION OF SUCH LEGAL INSTITUTIONS; ANDTO PROMOTE ART FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, IN PARTICULAR THROUGH EXHIBITIONS AND DISPLAYS AND THROUGH MAINTAINING AND MANAGING THE ART COLLECTION OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AND OF THE JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL.

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

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Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 3 were received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2024 (received 25/02/2025, 25 days after the 31/01/2025 due date); year ending 31/03/2022 (received 02/02/2023, 2 days after the 31/01/2023 due date); year ending 31/03/2021 (received 10/01/2023, 344 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Baroness Brenda Marjorie Halechair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Caro Howell · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dinah Casson CBE RDI
• ELSIE MARGARET AKUA OWUSU
• Ian Christopher Oakley Smith
• Rebecca Sophie Fry

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: City Of Westminster

Income and spending