OSCR Scottish charity profile

Nairn Trust

Known as The Nairn Charitable Trust

ActiveCharity number SC002595
Registered27 April 1977
Main locationEast Ayrshire
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
SC002595
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Scotland and other parts of the UK
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
KA1 2BW

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Provides grants to institutions mentioned in the Wills of the late Miss Elizabeth Nairn, Miss Mary Nairn and Miss Margaret Nairn. The Trustees have discretion to add to the list of institutions originally set out.

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of religion
  • the advancement of health
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science

Beneficiaries

  • Other charities or voluntary bodies

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations

Constitutional objectives

After fulfilment of the forgoing purposes I direct my Trustees to continue to hold the residue of my estate in their own names and to divide the income received therefrom at such times and in such proportions as they in their sole discretion consider proper to and amongst the following Institutions, videlicet:- (1) Princess Louise Scottish Hospital for Limbless Sailors and Soldiers, Erskine House, Bishopton. (2) The Scottish National Institution for the War Blind, Newington House, Edinburgh. (3) The Orphan Homes of Scotland, Bridge-of-Weir, Renfrewshire. (4) The Church of Scotland for the benefit of their Eventide Homes. (5) British Empire Cancer Campaign, Eleven Grosvenor Crescent, London, S.W.I. and (6) East Park Homes for Infirm Children, Maryhill, Glasgow. with full power to my Trustees at any time add to said charitable Institutions if they consider this advisable.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
5 April 2025£29,689£11,82901 August 2025
5 April 2024£14,871£12,443016 September 2024
5 April 2023£30,394£12,439015 August 2023
5 April 2022£45,377£11,879031 December 2022
5 April 2021£11,710£29,80808 September 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
Carruthers Curdie Sturrock & Co, 1 Howard St, Kilmarnock
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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