01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC004987
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- Operations cover all or most of Scotland
- Volunteers
- 0 volunteers
- Staff
- 0
- Postcode
- EH3 7LP
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
The object of the company is to support and contribute to charitable institutions for the benefit of the local communities in which they are based by helping to sustain the frontline activities of those charities supported. The principal activity of the charity in meeting its object is the awarding of grants. The principal source of funding is income from listed and unlisted investments. The trustees have chosen an investment policy that will facilitate a stable income flow and thereby maintain the current level of awards.
Charitable purposes
- the advancement of education
- the advancement of health
- the saving of lives
- the advancement of citizenship or community development
- the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
- the advancement of public participation in sport
- the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended
- the advancement of environmental protection or improvement
- the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
- the advancement of animal welfare
- any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes
Beneficiaries
- Other charities or voluntary bodies
Activities
- It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
Constitutional objectives
2.1 The objects for which the Company is established are:- 2.1.1 for public charitable purposes to promote, establish, develop, expand, contribute to, support and maintain facilities, projects, schemes and institutions of all kinds for the benefit of the community and without prejudice to the generality to make payments to persons in need of relief from poverty or distress and in need of grants for educational purposes. 2.1.2 to establish, maintain, support and manage or aid in the establishment, maintenance, support and management of any associations, institutions, agencies, funds or other conveniences calculated to assist, directly or indirectly in the promotion and attainment of the objects of the Company, and established for charitable purposes, and to undertake any trusts, gratuitously or otherwise, that may seem desirable for such objects.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Total income | Donations | Charitable activities income | Trading income | Investment income | Other income | Total expenditure | Raising funds | Charitable activities spending | Other spending | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 July 2025 | £413,297 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £418,682 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 16 September 2026 |
| 31 July 2024 | £344,131 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £398,301 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 30 April 2025 |
| 31 July 2023 | £342,858 | £30,000 | £0 | £0 | £312,858 | £0 | £418,343 | £39,448 | £378,895 | £0 | 0 | 29 April 2024 |
| 31 July 2022 | £391,563 | £30,000 | £0 | £0 | £361,563 | £0 | £424,863 | £38,550 | £386,313 | £0 | 0 | 20 April 2023 |
| 31 July 2021 | £265,719 | £30,000 | £0 | £0 | £235,719 | £0 | £374,475 | £36,812 | £337,663 | £0 | 0 | 29 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
- 16 Walker Street, 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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