OSCR Scottish charity profile

Nigel Bruce Charitable Trust

ActiveCharity number SC000933
Registered29 April 1965
Main locationCity of Edinburgh
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
SC000933
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Wider, but within one local authority area
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
EH15 3QA

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The trust funds are applied to organisations working for the benefit of persons, in the UK or overseas, under the age of 30, who are disadvantaged because of the circumstances of their birth, upbringing or environment.

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of health

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people
  • Other charities or voluntary bodies

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations

Constitutional objectives

(SECOND) The trustees shall hold the Trust Fund and the Income thereof and shall from time to time make such payments out of Income and also as they shall think fit out of Capital to or for the benefit of such members of the beneficiary class as hereinafter defined as the Trustees in their absolute, final and uncontrolled discretion may select for the purpose of improving the conditions of life of such persons or for assisting in the education or further education of such persons or for enabling them to serve professional or trade apprenticeships of for providing accommodation or assisting in the provision thereof or generally for affording such persons help or guidance in life or providing or assisting the in provision of facilities for them to receive such help or guidance and I declare (One) that in the exercise of their powers herein the Trustees may make a direct payment or grant to any member or members of the beneficiary class as they may select and that either in the form of a lump sum or of annual, quarterly, monthly or weekly instalments over such period or periods and subject to such conditions as the Trustees may decide but with right to the Trustees to terminate such periodical payments whenever they think fit so to do or by payment either by way of a lump sum or by periodical amounts to such associations, organisations and other bodies as in the opinion of my Trustees include among their purposes objects in conformity with those hereinbefore set forth and (Two) in exercising their absolute discretion as aforesaid the Trustees may have regard to but shall not in any way be bound by any wishes which I may express to them from time to time in writing. (THIRD) The beneficiary class shall be and include such persons under the age of thirty without regard to religious denomination or belief, race or colour as are in the opinion of my Trustees handicapped in any way by physical or mental disabilities or because of the circumstances of their upbringing or of their former or present environment or for any other reason whatsoever.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
5 April 2025£23,442£20,91102 December 2025
5 April 2024£24,609£11,41905 December 2024
5 April 2023£33,770£10,689024 December 2023
5 April 2022£32,860£5,129026 March 2023
5 April 2021£18,768£4,47107 September 2022

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
21 The Causeway, Edinburgh
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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