OSCR Scottish charity profile

James and Grace Anderson Trust

ActiveCharity number SC004172
Registered25 March 1964
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
SC004172
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Operations cover all or most of Scotland
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
EH1 1RF

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The James & Grace Anderson Trust has been operating to best support individuals living with cerebral palsy, and others working in research, treatment and care for the benefit of those with the condition, since 1966. The James and Grace Anderson Trust exists to promote research into a cure for, or the alleviation of cerebral palsy through grant making to individuals, organisations and researchers.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of health

Beneficiaries

  • People with disabilities or health problems
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
  • 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

(One) Instituting or supporting (or both) all manner of experimental and other research work related in any known or purported or possible way to the investigation of cerebral palsy (Three) the like to find a cure and to give treatment and relieve suffering (Four) The financial and other encouragement of efforts towards providing mechanical and other aids to its victims (FIVe) Clinics for examination of and advice either gratuitously or at least on terms estimated to do no more than meet the relative expenses (Six) Aiding in all or any schemes public or private for purposes the same as or similar to the purposes of teh Trust (Seven) Grants of money to any persons who are able to satisfy the trustees that they are qualified to prosecute studies which may be helpful to the purposes of the Trust and that the grants will be so used. (Eight) The preperation of and publication of reports transactions end books and the establishement and running of a magazine or journal and the marketing of all of these and (Nine) Providing for the delivery of lectures on subjects which may be helpful to the purposes of teh Trsut or the establishing of a chair or lectureship for the same purposes.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
5 April 2025£351,454£347,23107 August 2026
5 April 2024£201,645£193,904031 December 2024
5 April 2023£184,254£193,953023 November 2023
5 April 2022£220,357£255,263022 December 2022
5 April 2021£43,822£49,960010 December 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
The Signet Library, Parliament Square, 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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