HIGHLAND SOCIETY OF LONDON

Registered charity 244472 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC052685 (OSCR)

The activities of the Highland Society of London are to promote and support the traditions and culture of the Highlands of Scotland and to maintain a membership of individuals to support the Society's activities.

Objects

WITH THE VIEW OF ESTABLISHING AND SUPPORTING SCHOOLS IN THE HIGHLANDS AND IN THE NORTHERN PARTS OF GREAT BRITAIN, FOR RELIEVING DISTRESSED HIGHLANDERS AT A DISTANCE FROM THEIR NATIVE HOMES, FOR PRESERVING THE ANTIQUITIES AND RESCUING FROM OBLIVION THE VALUABLE REMAINS OF CELTIC LITERATURE, AND FOR PROMOTING THE IMPROVEMENT AND GENERAL WELFARE OF THE NORTHERN PARTS OF GREAT BRITAIN.

Area of benefit: NORTHERN PARTS OF GREAT BRITAIN

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

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Basingstoke and Deane, South East, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Society reported a surplus of £10,251 for the year ended 30 September 2025, following a deficit in the previous year. Total unrestricted funds held at year-end were £463,776, representing an increase from the prior year's £444,929. The trustees' report confirms the accounts were approved on 28 January 2026, indicating no stated financial distress or going concern issues.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

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.

• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Highland Society of London (matched by registered charity number).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (07/08/2013) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DUNCAN IAN ARTHUR CAMPBELL BYATTchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ALASDAIR FINDLAY-SHIRRAS
• Andrew Ivor Macdonald of Boisdale
• Hon Andrew Seymour Robert Younger
• MR ALEX OGILVIE
• Miranda Malvina Moody
• NEILL MULVIE
• Philip Strone Alexander Stewart Macpherson
• Robert Finlay McKinnon
• THE VISCOUNT YOUNGER OF LECKIE

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

Operates in: Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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