OSCR Scottish charity profile

Fordyce Memorial Bequest Trust

Known as Fordyce Bequest Trust

ActiveCharity number SC005547
Registered22 June 1932
Main locationAberdeenshire
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
SC005547
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
A specific local point, community or neighbourhood
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
AB45 3RX

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Set up to provide a cottage hospital in the vilage with beds for 2 males and 2 females and accomodation for a district nurse, about 1930 before the NHS, The NHS closed the Surgery in 2019, and was sold in 2023. as there is no health facilities anymore, we are unable to disburse the funds due to the conditions of the origional Will.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of health

Beneficiaries

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

Activities

  • It does none of these

Constitutional objectives

The advancement of health.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 December 2025£0£00Not supplied
31 December 2024£2,457£3,320011 August 2025
31 December 2023£137,908£9,89604 July 2024
31 December 2022£87£6,847014 June 2023
31 December 2021£26£4,495025 May 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
Cairns of Melrose, Banff, Aberdeenshire
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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