OSCR Scottish charity profile

Samuel Elliot Bequest

ActiveCharity number SC004899
Registered23 June 1922
Main locationDumfries And Galloway
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
SC004899
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
A specific local point, community or neighbourhood
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
DG1 2HP

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

To provide grants by application to individuals who are experiencing hardship within the bounds that the trust operates.

Charitable purposes

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

Beneficiaries

  • Older People

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations

Constitutional objectives

For the benefit of persons in necessitous circumstances who have been continuously resident for at least three years prior to their application for a grant, in the Burgh of Lockerbie, the Parish of Dryfesdale or the Parish of Johnstone.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
30 June 2025£923£11002 March 2026
30 June 2024£0£290023 May 2025
30 June 2023£0£470018 March 2024
30 June 2022£0£110021 February 2023
30 June 2021£8,103£8,241011 April 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
Dumfries & Galloway Council, Carruthers House, English Street, Dumfries
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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