THE ADAM SMITH RESEARCH TRUST

Registered charity 802750 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Economic and social research and education

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING AND OF PUBLIC EDUCATION BY RESEARCH INTO APPLIED ECONOMICS, POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY, PUBLIC AND POLICY OPTIONS AND THE POLICYMAKING PROCESS; THE PUBLISHING AND ADVANCEMENT OF THE PUBLICATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH AND IN PARTICULAR BUT WITHOUT PREJUDICE TO THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING:- (A) BY PROVIDING FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO INDIVIDUALS IN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND ELSEWHERE WHO ARE ENGAGED IN RESEARCH INTO APPLIED ECONOMICS, POLITICAL SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY, PUBLIC POLICY OPTIONS AND POLICYMAKING PROCESS; (B) BY ADVANCING RESEARCH INTO AND KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE INTERRELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN MORAL, ECONOMIC, PHILISOPHICAL AND INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS AND THE FORMULATION, PRINCIPLES, AND EFFECTS OF POLICY OPTIONS; (C) BY ADVANCING KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF PUBLIC POLICIES AND ECONOMIC, PHILISOPHICAL AND INSTITUTIONAL FACTORS IN THE UK AND ELSEWHERE; (D) BY JOINING WITH, COLLABORATING WITH, AND SUPPORTING OTHER CHARITABLE BODIES ENGAGED IN SIMILAR OR COMPATIBLE ACTIVITIES.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £263,854, up from £93,981 in the prior year, following a net income of £169,873. The trustees confirm there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. The charity's policy is to maintain unrestricted reserves at a level which meets its needs, without a specific quantitative target disclosed.

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 4 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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 30/09/2025 (received 04/08/2026, 5 days after the 30/07/2026 due date); year ending 30/09/2023 (received 06/09/2024, 38 days after the 30/07/2024 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

• James Anthony David Lawsonchair

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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