OSCR Scottish charity profile

Heart Diseases Research Trust

ActiveCharity number SC007488
Registered6 July 1962
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
SC007488
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
UK and overseas
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
EH3 8FY

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The trustees have discretion to apply charity funds to either purchase equipment to help with the study and treatment of heart disease, or provide financial support to the training of cardiac specialists.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of health

Beneficiaries

  • People with disabilities or health problems

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

The objects of the Fund shall be the furtherance in any part of the world of investigation, study, observation, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration, cure of and research into cardiological desorders of the human body and of and into disorders of a like nature.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
5 April 2025£17,533£70,87706 October 2025
5 April 2024£17,610£10,717029 October 2024
5 April 2023£18,096£13,09803 January 2024
5 April 2022£47,546−£30,351014 December 2022
5 April 2021£14,400£60,082014 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, 9 Haymarket Square, 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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