OSCR Scottish charity profile

The Murray Usher Foundation

ActiveCharity number SC000266
Registered6 October 1977
Main locationDumfries And Galloway
Legal formTrust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC000266
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
A specific local point, community or neighbourhood
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
DG6 4UR

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Supporting matters associated with the cultural, educational, and public benefit of Gatehouse of Fleet, encompassing the Parishes of Girthon and Anwoth, and promoting the interests of the town and its people.

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • the advancement of environmental protection or improvement
  • any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes

Beneficiaries

  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
  • Other charities or voluntary bodies

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations

Constitutional objectives

The objects of the Murray Usher Foundation are so far and so far only as the same may be legally charitable and are to expend the Trust Fund from time to time and whether income or capital on such public charitable or benevolent purposes as the Trustees in their absolute discretion may decide or to make payment to such Charitable bodies or organisations which are constituted for Charitable purposes only and so long as such other charitable bodies or organisations have been accepted by the Board of Inland Revenue or other competent authority as a body established for Charitable purposes only for the purposes of taxation.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
5 April 2025£31,597£63,74004 September 2025
5 April 2024£32,132£41,47607 November 2024
5 April 2023£30,614£39,945016 October 2023
5 April 2022£93,942£88,39502 November 2022
5 April 2021£29,007£28,51507 October 2021

Figures are those reported by the charity and supplied in the OSCR bulk download. Blank facts remain distinct from zero.

04 Contact record

Principal office or trustees address

Address supplied to OSCR
Beechwood, Tongland Road, Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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