OSCR Scottish charity profile

Hope Trust

ActiveCharity number SC000987
Registered18 April 1912
Main locationMidlothian
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
SC000987
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Wider, but within one local authority area
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
EH1 3LR

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The trustees make grants to charities that combat all forms of substance abuse to promote temperance work. they make grants to charities that promote the Reformed church and church life in Scotland. they pay scholarships to post-graduate students in the Reformed tradition at Schools of Divinity at Scottish universities. they make grants to all ministry candidates in the Church of Scotland and the Free Church. the trust also funds a post-doctoral fellowship.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of religion
  • the advancement of health

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people
  • Older People
  • People with disabilities or health problems
  • People with a particular ethnic or racial origin

Activities

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

Constitutional objectives

The Trustees shall hold the Trust Fund and the income of it to pay and apply the same to or for the benefit of or in furtherance of (a) advancing the cause of temperance through the promotion of temperance work and the combatting of all forms of substance abuse, and (b) promoting Reformed theology and Reformed church life especially in Scotland and the social mission of charities with historical or contemporary links to the Reformed tradition, considered in its diverse forms, and (c) such similar charitable purposes or charitable institutions in such proportions and manner as the Trustees shall think fit.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 December 2025£0£00Not supplied
31 December 2024£276,533£288,932019 August 2025
31 December 2023£278,316£236,548026 June 2024
31 December 2022£267,699£239,655022 August 2023
31 December 2021£245,467£255,49201 August 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
Glenorchy House, 20 Union Street, 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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