OSCR Scottish charity profile

Meb Charitable Trust

ActiveCharity number SC007390
Registered20 July 1984
Main locationGlasgow City
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
SC007390
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Scotland and other parts of the UK
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
G2 1RW

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The charity is set up to provide financial support to other charitable bodies. It does this by providing donations to such charitable bodies as are selected by the trustees on an annual basis.

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of religion
  • the advancement of health
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
  • the advancement of public participation in sport
  • the advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation
  • 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

  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
  • Other charities or voluntary bodies

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations

Constitutional objectives

1. In giving donations, subscriptions or grants to or for behoof of such Churches or other organisations for the promulgation of the Christian Faith working at home or abroad as the Trustees may select. 2. In giving donations, subscriptions or grants to or for behoof of any Institution, Society or Organisation registered in Great Britain as a charity or any other charitable institutions, societies or organisations as the Trustees may think worthy of assistance. 3. In giving donations, subscriptions or grants to or for behoof of such hospitals, infirmaries, nursing homes or other places, institutions or bodies of persons whose principal objects include the relief of persons in conditions of need, hardship or distress provided always that the recipients thereof shall not be operating for profit or under the control of the government of any country or the council of any county, burgh or municipality or any board or committee formed thereby. 4. In giving donations, sUbscriptions or grants to or for behoof of public funds or organisations promoted for the relief of sufferers through war or national or local disaster or for the relief of refugees. 5. In giving donations, subscriptions or grants to or for behoof of universities, technical colleges, institutions, societies, organisations or bodies of persons which in the opinion of the Trustees are likely to promote the carrying out of scientific or medical research. and 6. In giving aid to or for behoof of persons in conditions of need, hardship or distress and particularly, but without prejudice to the foregoing generality, in giving aid towards the education of persons of any age and that by giving awards, donations, allowances, grants, bursaries, outfits or other aid for such purpose or purposes as the Trustees may in their sole discretion think fit.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
5 April 2025£97,281£113,03107 November 2025
5 April 2024£97,908£113,448021 November 2024
5 April 2023£103,547£117,009015 November 2023
5 April 2022£96,773£133,202012 December 2022
5 April 2021£75,743£108,558021 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
Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

© Crown Copyright and database right 2026. Contains information from the Scottish Charity Register supplied by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator and licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. BritDB is an independent service and does not claim to be the Scottish Charity Register.