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Annual Report 2011-2012 Annual report 2011-2012 Annual Report Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland One hundred and twelfth Annual Report, for the year to 30th September 2013 www.carnegie-trust.org Annual Report Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland Incorporated by Royal Charter One hundred and twelfth Annual Report, for the year to 30th September 2013, submitted by the Executive Committee to the Trustees on 24th February 2014 Andrew Carnegie House Pittencrieff Street Dunfermline KY12 8AW Tel: 01383 724 990 Fax: 01383 749 799 Email: [email protected] Web: www.carnegie-trust.org Scottish Charity Number: SC015600 Contents Contents Index to tables and charts ...................................................................................... iii Chairman’s Introduction .......................................................................................... 1 Structure, Governance and Management ............................................................ 3 Trust Constitution and Powers ................................................................................. 3 Executive Committee ...................................................................................................... 3 Investment Committee ................................................................................................... 3 Audit Committee.............................................................................................................. 3 Staffing and Nominating (Trustees) Committees ......................................................... 3 Objects of the Trust ................................................................................................... 4 Risk Management Statement ................................................................................. 4 Statement of the Executive Committee’s Responsibilities ................................. 4 Operating Policies of the Trust ................................................................................ 5 Reserves policy ................................................................................................................. 5 Investment policy and performance ............................................................................ 5 Grant making policy ........................................................................................................ 6 Secretary’s Report .................................................................................................... 7 Highlights .................................................................................................................... 7 Events during the year ..................................................................................................... 7 Plans for the future ........................................................................................................... 9 Activity Report ........................................................................................................ 10 Research grants ...................................................................................................... 10 Small Research Grants ................................................................................................... 10 Larger Grants .................................................................................................................. 11 Carnegie Centenary Professorships ............................................................................ 12 Undergraduate schemes ...................................................................................... 13 Fee Assistance ................................................................................................................ 13 Vacation Scholarships ................................................................................................... 13 Undergraduate Expeditions .......................................................................................... 14 Postgraduate schemes .......................................................................................... 14 Carnegie-Cameron Taught Postgraduate Bursaries ................................................. 14 Carnegie PhD Scholarships ........................................................................................... 15 Financial review ..................................................................................................... 17 Accounts for the year ended 30 September 2013 ............................................. 19 i Contents Statement of financial activities ........................................................................... 19 Balance sheet ......................................................................................................... 20 Cash Flow Statement ............................................................................................. 21 Notes to the Accounts ........................................................................................... 22 Report by the Auditors ........................................................................................... 27 Trustees and Standing Committees 2012-2013 ................................................... 29 Nominated Members of the Trust ........................................................................ 29 Ex-Officio Trustees ................................................................................................... 30 Principals and Vice-Chancellors of the Universities of Scotland ............................. 30 The Lord Provosts of Edinburgh and Glasgow ........................................................... 31 The First Minister .............................................................................................................. 31 Executive Committee ............................................................................................ 31 Investment Committee .......................................................................................... 31 Audit Committee .................................................................................................... 31 Members of staff ..................................................................................................... 32 Auditors .................................................................................................................... 32 Bankers ..................................................................................................................... 32 Investment Managers ............................................................................................ 32 Solicitors .................................................................................................................... 32 Photo credits ........................................................................................................... 33 ii Index to tables and charts Table 1: List of benefactors, 2 Table 2: Asset allocation, 5 Table 3: Summary of awards made in 2012-2013, 10 Table 4: Small Research Grants awards by university, 10 Table 5: Applicant affiliation and success rate by university for Larger Grants, 11 Table 6: Fee Assistance awards 2009-10 to 2012-13, 13 Table 7: Allocation of Fee Assistance awards by university 2012-13, 13 Table 8: Vacation scholarship allocation and success rate by university, 14 Table 9: Carnegie-Cameron Bursary allocation by university for 2013-14, 15 Table 10: PhD scholarship allocation by field of study, 15 Table 11: University of graduation and tenure of scholarship of applicants and awardholders, 15 Chart 1: Allocation of Larger Grants by university, 12 iii Chairman’s Introduction In my Introduction to last year’s Report, I mentioned the retirement of Jackie Gray and the imminent retirement of Professor Andrew Miller. In June of this current year, we entertained Jackie Gray to lunch and presented her with a cheque on behalf of the Trustees. I am happy to say that Jackie is in fine fettle and thoroughly enjoying her retirement. We will mark the retirement of Andrew Miller at a dinner in November. Andrew Miller served as a Trustee when he was Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Stirling University from 1994 to 2001, so he was already well acquainted with the work of the Trust when he succeeded Sir John Arbuthnott as Secretary and Treasurer in 2004. I find it difficult sufficiently to express how much the Trust owes to Andrew’s guidance over the past nine years. Andrew is a scientist of great distinction with wide experience of scientific research and project management in Scotland, England and France, as well as the management of academic institutions and, latterly, the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He is a voracious reader with an astonishingly wide range of interests covering almost the whole of the spectrum of topics that come within the purview of the Trust. So his careful and informed assessment of grant applications always commanded the respect of Trustees, applicants and the Universities. Andrew encouraged fresh thinking about the Trust’s work and its proper focus in a rapidly changing academic environment. He was attentive to the potential pitfalls inherent in data protection and freedom of information requests, and he was always ready to reconsider a decision if a case were made out, and to propose amendment of the Trust’s regulations if it appeared that an ambiguity had given rise to legitimate, though unintended, expectations. Apart from all that, Andrew is a warm, lively, modest and humorous companion with whom it has been a sheer
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