OSCR Scottish charity profile

William Adams' Trust, Oakshaw Trinity Church

Known as William Adams Trust

ActiveCharity number SC003861
Registered1 January 1902
Main locationRenfrewshire
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
SC003861
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
A specific local point, community or neighbourhood
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
PA1 2DB

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Apply Trust Funds held to fulfil various Trust purposes

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of religion
  • 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

  • Children or young people
  • Older People
  • People with disabilities or health problems

Activities

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

Constitutional objectives

that the whole funds of the William Adams Trust will now be applied to the following purposes:- (First) For and towards the maintenance, clothing and benefit of the orphan children of the members of Oakshaw Trinity Church. (Second) For and towards the maintenance, clothing and benefit of children of members of Oakshaw Trinity Church, whether orphans or not and who are, in the opinion of the Trustees, in need. (Third) For the maintenance, clothing and benefit of children who are members of Youth Organisations of Oakshaw Trinity Church and who are, in the opinion of the Trustees, in need. (Fourth) In the event of any part of the income of the Trust Funds in the hands of the Trustees not being required for the foregoing purposes the Trustees shall have the power, in their sole discretion, to make payments out of such surplus income whether of the current or of any previous year (a) to individuals or individual Youth Organisations for the provision of suitable equipment and for the promotion of their recreational, social and cultural activities, and (b) towards the maintenance , upkeep and improvement of halls of Oakshaw Trinity Church which are used by said Youth Organisation, or any of them, provided that the payments made in respect of any hall shall not exceed such proportion of the total sums expended on the maintenance, upkeep and improvement of that hall as, in the opinion of the Trustees, corresponds to the use made of the said hall by the said Youth Organisations in relation to the total use made of the hall. maximum text reached, further full information can be obtained directly from the Charity

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
30 September 2025£108,901£132,75301 July 2026
30 September 2024£107,622£150,913030 June 2025
30 September 2023£107,515£142,450031 March 2024
30 September 2022£95,737£235,997019 April 2023
30 September 2021£134,776£67,16607 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
6 School Wynd, Paisley
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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