OSCR Scottish charity profile

Gordon Highlanders Association Trust

ActiveCharity number SC002889
Registered24 March 1930
Main locationAberdeen
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
SC002889
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Scotland and other parts of the UK
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
AB15 7XH

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The charity primary aim is to support veteran Gordon Highlanders, widows and children of Gordon Highlanders who have fallen on hard times. In addition the charity supports gatherings of veteran attendance at ceremonial and commemorative events, Armed Forces Day, Remembrance Sunday, battlefield tours, and a wide range of other local events to encourage comradeship and to support the mental well-being of aging veyterans. This will include support to veterans living on their own.

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
  • any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes

Beneficiaries

  • Older People
  • People with disabilities or health problems
  • Other defined groups
  • Other charities or voluntary bodies

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

The Trust hereby established shall exist for the following purposes, and have the following objects and aims namely:- (1) To foster esprit-de-corps and to keep alive by reunions and meetings the comradeship which was always so strong among officers, warrant officers non-commissioned officers and men (all hereinafter collectively called 'members') of the Regiment which was formerly known as The Gordon Highlanders (hereinafter called 'the Regiment') (2) To assist members of The Regiment who have through no fault of their own fallen on hard times. (3) To assist the widows and children of deceased members, but excluding any widow or children of any of us. (4) To ensure that all pensioners and veterans of The Regiment are well cared for and to arrange for visits to members resident at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. Erskine Hospital and the War Blinded Institution, Linburn: the Scottish Veterans' Residences (Whiteford House, Rosendael and the Murray Home). the Thistle Foundation (Wighton House), Edinburgh. the Flanders House in Glasgow. the Blesma House in Crieff: and the Royal Star and Garter Home in Surrey.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 December 2025£74,185£106,368021 April 2026
31 December 2024£59,845£90,165027 May 2025
31 December 2023£414,566£59,935026 July 2024
31 December 2022£83,860£24,32004 May 2023
31 December 2021£21,832£33,67506 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
St Lukes, Viewfield Road, 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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