OSCR Scottish charity profile

Mushroom Trust

ActiveCharity number SC007683
Registered28 April 1976
Main locationAberdeen
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
SC007683
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
More than one local authority area in Scotland
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
AB10 6SD

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

To protect and enhance green spaces in and around Edinburgh, Scotland and beyond by making grants to support projects that enhance the publics enjoyment and appreciation of green spaces.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
  • 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

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
  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

The Trustees shall hold the whole capital and income of the Trust Fund upon trust to apply the same, at such time or times as they may in their absolute discretion think fit, for such purposes charitable in law as they may from time to time select. Declaring (One) as regards income that the Trustees shall have power, if in any year they think fit, to hold the annual income of the Trust Fund or any part thereof for application as aforesaid in a later year, but that without accumulating the same with capital. and (Two) that in the exercise of their said discretion the Trustees shall have power to apply the whole, or the whole remaining, Trust Fund, capital or income, for such purposes as aforesaid, to the effect of bringing the Trust to an end.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
5 April 2025£268,519£247,08907 January 2026
5 April 2024£159,540£177,882023 July 2025
5 April 2023£135,210£118,051023 January 2024
5 April 2022£142,593£202,968014 December 2022
5 April 2021£116,086£132,392016 February 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
Brodies House, 31-33 Union Grove, Aberdeen
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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