OSCR Scottish charity profile

Second Henry Joseph Levitt Scholarship

ActiveCharity number SC005287
Registered12 May 1955
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
SC005287
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Wider, but within one local authority area
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
EH4 1BT

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

To provide grants to young people to visit Israel.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of religion

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people
  • People with a particular ethnic or racial origin

Activities

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

Constitutional objectives

The Trust's main objective is to award a travelling scholarship annually to boys or girls of the Jewish Religion resident in Edinburgh, who have attained the age of fourteen years but have not attained the age of eighteeen years and who have attended the Edinburgh Hebrew Congregation Religious Classes. The Scholarship will be awarded to any pupil who fulfils the comprehensive set of criteria determined by the Education Committee of the Edinburgh Hebrew Congregation and agreed by the Trustees. Each winner of the said Scholarship shall receive a payment out of the income of the Trust Fund to enable him or her to travel to the State of Israel in association with a Jewish Education Scheme.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
8 October 2025£9,957£10,929028 July 2026
8 October 2024£81,266£80,85903 January 2025
8 October 2023£4,265£1,894010 January 2024
8 October 2022£103,490£109,511014 September 2023
8 October 2021£1,506£2,36002 March 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
4 Clarendon Crescent, 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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