OSCR Scottish charity profile

Lindsays Charitable Trust

ActiveCharity number SC002014
Registered25 January 1983
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
SC002014
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Scotland and other parts of the UK
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
EH3 8HE

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The Trustee grant making policy being focused on conservation, the environment, wildlife, the arts as well as medical research, The Trustee has wide discretion to pay the trust income to such charitable organisations as they may select, The Trustee will normally support Scottish based charities working in Scotland and then to support smaller, less well known charities working in specialist fields

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of health
  • the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
  • the advancement of environmental protection or improvement

Beneficiaries

  • Other charities or voluntary bodies

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations

Constitutional objectives

The Trust Fund shall be held by the Trustees for the following purposes:- ONE The Trustees shall hold, manage and administer the Fund as a charitable trust for the purpose of making donations, subscriptions, or grants from the income or capital thereof (after meeting administration expenses) to charities which are registered as such in England or which are recognised as such by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue in Scotland, declaring that the Trustees shall have sole discretion as to the said charities which shall benefit from time to time.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 December 2025£54,533£37,567012 August 2026
31 December 2024£76,034£76,271010 February 2025
31 December 2023£28,772£45,95506 March 2024
31 December 2022£68,928£60,53209 February 2023
31 December 2021£49,322£38,787022 February 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
Lindsays , Caledonian Exchange, 19a Canning 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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