01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC002300
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- Wider, but within one local authority area
- Volunteers
- 0 volunteers
- Staff
- 0
- Postcode
- AB10 1HA
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
This charity was set up to have the income utilised to assist the Lunatic Asylum of Aberdeen (2/7), the Infirmary (1/7), the Incurable Hospital (1/7) and discretionary grants of (3/7) of the revenue, provided no beneficiary received assistance by way of public funds. The Incurable hospital and Infirmary became publicly funded and so a Scheme was agreed in 1954 to change these to the Eventide Home which is not publicly funded.
Charitable purposes
- the prevention or relief of poverty
- the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Beneficiaries
- Other charities or voluntary bodies
Activities
- It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
Constitutional objectives
I direct my said Trustees and Executors to divide and pay, annually or otherwise as they may consider best, as follows, videlicet:- two-sevenths thereof to be applied at the discretion of my Trustees towards the support of poor persons in the Lunatic Asylum of Aberdeen who have not sufficient means of their own to pay the full board, and who are consequently in whole or in part being maintained there by their relatives. one-seventh thereof to the Treasurer for the time being of the Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, for behoof of the said Infirmary, on condition that a bed in the Hospital shall be named after me and that my Trustees shall be admitted Life Managers of the said Incorporation. one-seventh thereof to the Treasurer for the time being of the Incurable Hospital, Aberdeen, for behoof of the said Hospital, on condition that a bed in the Hospital shall be named after me, and that my Trustees shall be admitted Life Managers of the said Hospital, and the remaining three-sevenths of the said free yearly income and revenue I direct my Trustees to divide and pay among such Charities or Charitable Institutions connected with the City Of Aberdeen as they in their discretion may think fit,- the claims of the Public Soup Kitchen and the Coal Funds being favourably considered,- but the mode of payment, and the selection of the Charities being left entirely to the discretion of my said Trustees, from whose decision there shall be no appeal.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 April 2025 | £10,216 | £12,039 | 0 | 11 November 2025 |
| 5 April 2024 | £18,197 | £30,727 | 0 | 5 December 2024 |
| 5 April 2023 | £30,303 | £36,894 | 0 | 21 December 2023 |
| 5 April 2022 | £77,354 | £83,396 | 0 | 17 March 2023 |
| 5 April 2021 | £96,663 | £89,683 | 0 | 24 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
- Ledingham Chalmers Solicitors, 52-54 Rose Street, Aberdeen
- Website supplied to OSCR
- Not supplied
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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