01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC002007
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- Wider, but within one local authority area
- Volunteers
- 0 volunteers
- Staff
- 0
- Postcode
- PA2 8BQ
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
Since the abolition of exclusive privileges of trade during the 19th century the Society has become a charitable organisation with the objective of providing financial support to deserving persons and other relevant projects.
Charitable purposes
- any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes
Beneficiaries
- Children or young people
- Older People
- Other defined groups
Activities
- It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
- It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
Constitutional objectives
THAT IS TO SAY the said Persons Subscribing Hammermen, Clockmakers Burgesses and Inhabitants within the said Burgh CONSIDERING that in all Trades and Incorporations there and indigent and necessitous persons that are without means to supply their outward necessity AND CONSIDERING also that the most proper and effectual means for applying such indigent persons and preventing increase of their numbers is by persons of one craft entering into a Society and collecting a common Purse whereby poor and indigent Children of any person of said united craft may be brought up and put to Trades as age or inclination may lead them, and as shall be thought most advantageous for them by the Representatives of the said Craft and that aged, poor and indigent persons may be supplied as meed may require HAVE THEREFORE and for preventing several abuses in the said Trade conform to the Acts made or to be made by the Bailies and Council in their favour,
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 April 2025 | £15,961 | £22,190 | 0 | 14 January 2026 |
| 5 April 2024 | £17,456 | £26,790 | 0 | 19 April 2025 |
| 5 April 2023 | £17,010 | £17,916 | 0 | 22 January 2024 |
| 5 April 2022 | £20,618 | £27,175 | 0 | 21 December 2022 |
| 5 April 2021 | £8,206 | £19,678 | 0 | 12 November 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
- 9 Leabank Avenue, Paisley
- Website supplied to OSCR
- https://paisleyhammermen.org/
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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