OSCR Scottish charity profile

John Younger Trust

ActiveCharity number SC002587
Registered22 March 1974
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
SC002587
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
UK and overseas
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
EH3 6AQ

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

In this reporting period the Charity awarded grants to nineteen institutions. The Trustees monitor the performance of each institution supported by the Charity and where appropriate they may request a copy of their annual report and account to facilitate a consideration of support in future years

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of religion
  • the advancement of health
  • the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
  • the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
  • any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes

Beneficiaries

  • Other charities or voluntary bodies

Activities

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

Constitutional objectives

The Trust Fund shall be held by the Trustees in trust for the following purposes: - ...(Third) I direct the Trustees to hold the Trust Fund for such purposes as the law shall from time to time regard as charitable within the meaning of Section 360 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970 or of any Act amending or replacing the same and to distribute the Trust Fund at such time or times and in such amounts as may be determined by the Trustees in their sole discretion for such charitable purposes only.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
30 September 2025£19,385£51,166014 April 2026
30 September 2024£22,790£71,358020 May 2025
30 September 2023£19,240£36,428024 May 2024
30 September 2022£20,263£34,153025 May 2023
30 September 2021£19,665£42,322011 May 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
Murray Beith Murray, 3 Glenfinlas 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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