SMART HERITAGE CIC

Company limited by guarantee

Company Registration Number:
SC730896 (Scotland)

Unaudited statutory accounts for the year ended 30 April 2024

Period of accounts

Start date: 1 May 2023

End date: 30 April 2024

SMART HERITAGE CIC

Contents of the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 April 2024

Profit and loss
Balance sheet
Additional notes
Balance sheet notes
Community Interest Report

SMART HERITAGE CIC

Profit And Loss Account

for the Period Ended 30 April 2024

2024 2023


£

£
Turnover: 49,625 8,943
Cost of sales: ( 47,855 ) ( 9,001 )
Gross profit(or loss): 1,770 (58)
Distribution costs: ( 1,822 )
Administrative expenses: ( 4,000 )
Operating profit(or loss): (4,052) (58)
Profit(or loss) before tax: (4,052) (58)
Profit(or loss) for the financial year: (4,052) (58)

SMART HERITAGE CIC

Balance sheet

As at 30 April 2024

Notes 2024 2023


£

£
Current assets
Debtors: 3 4,000 0
Cash at bank and in hand: 2,830 6,882
Total current assets: 6,830 6,882
Net current assets (liabilities): 6,830 6,882
Total assets less current liabilities: 6,830 6,882
Total net assets (liabilities): 6,830 6,882
Members' funds
Profit and loss account: 6,830 6,882
Total members' funds: 6,830 6,882

The notes form part of these financial statements

SMART HERITAGE CIC

Balance sheet statements

For the year ending 30 April 2024 the company was entitled to exemption under section 477 of the Companies Act 2006 relating to small companies.

The members have not required the company to obtain an audit in accordance with section 476 of the Companies Act 2006.

The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for complying with the requirements of the Act with respect to accounting records and the preparation of accounts.

These accounts have been prepared and delivered in accordance with the provisions applicable to companies subject to the small companies regime.

This report was approved by the board of directors on 29 January 2025
and signed on behalf of the board by:

Name: Dr Alan Miller
Status: Director

The notes form part of these financial statements

SMART HERITAGE CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 April 2024

  • 1. Accounting policies

    Basis of measurement and preparation

    These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the provisions of Financial Reporting Standard 101

    Tangible fixed assets depreciation policy

    Forr computing equipment depreciation of 30% per year

SMART HERITAGE CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 April 2024

  • 2. Employees

    2024 2023
    Average number of employees during the period 2 1

    The number of employees was between 1 and 2 Full time equivalent

SMART HERITAGE CIC

Notes to the Financial Statements

for the Period Ended 30 April 2024

3. Debtors

2024 2023
£ £
Other debtors 4,000 0
Total 4,000 0

COMMUNITY INTEREST ANNUAL REPORT

SMART HERITAGE CIC

Company Number: SC730896 (Scotland)

Year Ending: 30 April 2024

Company activities and impact

Smart Heritage CiC (SH) is a social enterprise with a vision to make heritage more accessible by encouraging remote virtual discovery of heritage using the latest technologies and social networks. We are committed to empowering communities and heritage organisation by making emergent, immersive and mobile technologies accessible and enabling them to be used to digitise cultural landscapes and raise understanding of threats posed by climate change, the pandemic and conflict. We believe virtual reality has the potential to bring home the global and local impacts of climate change and act as a catalyst for the behaviour changes needed to preserve our cultural landscapes for the future. A small company with a big social goal to bring heritage and culture to the centre of communities. We work with organisations across Scotland, Europe and beyond connecting communities with local, national and international heritage. Smart Heritage has worked to develop digital exhibits, exhibitions and tools which support heritage practitioners in preserving and promoting heritage. Our work has focussed on Scotland but has also impacted internationally. Project s between February 2024 and February 2025 During the past year Smart Heritage CiC has engaged in digitisation activities with partners, including making 3D models of heritage objects, developing digital scenes. We have contributed to: Seinn Spiordail: Sacred Soundscapes of Scotland’s Highlands and Islands Communities, where Smart Heritage contributed to developing the digital offering for the project https://seinn.org/. In the exhibition, you will learn about the variety of Gaelic sacred singing throughout the region, including psalmody, hymnody, and sacred song compositions There have been several exhibits associate starting in January 2024 and continuing to May 2025. Exhibition venues include: Museum nan Elea Stornoway, and Kinloch Historical Society, Ballallan and Comunn Eachdraidh Nis Ness all in Lewis, Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum, North Uist, Museum nan Eilean, Lionacleit, Benbecula and Skye & Lochalsh Archive Centre, Portree, Isle of Skye. Development of web sites for the West Highland Museum (WHM) and their Our Lochabar project development working with the West Highland Museum, developing their website and a website for the Our Lochaber project, these activities included 3D digitisations of models made by local schools, creation of a digital interactive map, and Gaelic English t5ranslations for subtitles in students videos. Smart Heritage has worked with the Finlaggan Trust and Museum of Islay life, as well as the primary schools on Islay and Jura and the High School, creating virtual museums, digital scenes and digital interpretation, as well as teaching school students skills and co creating virtual tours, 3D artefacts and other interactives. Figure 1 Kirkcaldy Kirk c1500 exhibit at Old Kirkcaldy Kirk https://vimeo.com/922406024 Kirkcaldy Old Kirk Contributed to developing digital reconstruction of Kirkcaldy Old Kirk as it was in 1500. The work was guided by Prof. Richard Fawcett, and Rosemary Potter of the Kirkcaldy Old Kirk Trust. It has resulted in a touch screen exhibit based upon reconstruction of the church and a virtual tour of the church as it is now. Web and app versions of the exhibit are also available. The work has featured in several community events and is now a permanent exhibit in the Kirk, which acts as a community centre, hosting all sorts of events. Development of web sites for the West Highland Museum (WHM) and their Our Lochabar project development working with the West Highland Museum, developing their website and a website for the Our Lochaber project, these activities included 3D digitisations of models made by local schools, creation of a digital interactive map, and Gaelic English t5ranslations for subtitles in students videos. Smart Heritage has worked with the Finlaggan Trust and Museum of Islay life, as well as the primary schools on Islay and Jura and the High School, creating virtual museums, digital scenes and digital interpretation, as well as teaching school students skills and co creating virtual tours, 3D artefacts and other interactives. Through secondment and working with CARARE https://www.carare.eu/en/, Smart Heritage CiC contributed to the Common European data space for Cultural Heritage and Europeana, the main European Heritage infrastructure. as well as the 4CH project and preparation for the new competency centre for 3D heritage 3D-4CH competence centre, as well as the Tech4Heritage project (Creative Europe). This helped develop the digital European Corpus of Cultural Heritage and build capacity to work with digital heritage. Thorough these activities we have worked with stakeholders, to build capacity for promoting and preserving heritage. This has in turn helped address Sustainable Development Goals. This work has contributed to Good Health and Well Being, Quality Education, Decent Work and Economic Growth. Gender Equality, Sustainable Communities, Responsible Consumption and Climate Action.

Consultation with stakeholders

Stakeholders include, museums, archaeologists, heritage practitioners, tourist organisations, schools, colleges and community. Specific stakeholders consulted include Timespan Museum, CARARE, West Highland Museum, Finlaggan Trust, Museum of Islay Life, and Kirkcaldy Old Kirk Trust Smart Heritage communicates with wider community through its Web Site and social media. Web: htttps://www.smartheritage.net Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/smarthistoryuk/ Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/user40599170 Smart Heritage also receives feedback from the many people that we work with in museums and heritage organisations. We also receive feedback from end users engaging with museums. The 1100,Facebook followers of Smart Heritage include: ICOM Italia, Immersive Learning Research Network, Landscape Lore, Hellenic Open University, Museums of the University of St Andrews, School of History Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, Baillies of Bennachie, Whithorn Trust, Dig it, Bid St Andrews, St Andrews Heritage Museum and Garden, Museums of the University of St Andrews, West Highland Museum, TheArt Career Project, St Andrews Community Trust, Scottish Invasive Species Initiative, CINE Project, CUPIDO Project, Tilted Frame Photography, Northern Heritage Network, CINE Project, Tomintool and Glenlivet, Landscape Lore, St Andrews Preservation Trust, Museums and Heritage Highland

Directors' remuneration

Renumeration of 4000 GBP for administrative services

Transfer of assets

No transfer of assets other than for full consideration

This report was approved by the board of directors on
30 January 2025

And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: Dr Alan Miller
Status: Director