OSCR Scottish charity profile

G J Ward's Charitable Trust

ActiveCharity number SC008108
Registered20 May 1975
Main locationOutwith Scotland
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
SC008108
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
UK and overseas
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
RG17 0TA

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The trust is an unincorporated trust, constituted under a trust deed dated 20 May 1975. The trust was created for the benefit of the following:- 1. Any charity, charitable institution or institutions. 2. Any needy person who has been continuously employed for one year by GJ Ward of his descendants. 3. Any needy person who is the wife, husband, widow or widower, child or remoter issue of any person listed under 2.

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of education
  • the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people
  • Older People
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
  • Other charities or voluntary bodies

Activities

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

Constitutional objectives

The Trustees shall have power to pay or apply the whole or so much (if any) of the income or capital of the Trust Fund as the Trustees shall think fit to or for the benefit of all or such one or more exclusively of the others or other of the Discretionary Beneficiaries hereinafter defined for the time being in existence if more than one in such proportions and in such manner in all respects as the Trustees shall in their discretion think fit provided always that (i) no such payment or application shall be made otherwise than for charitable purposes only and (ii) the Trustees shall have power at any time to extinguish, restrict or release the said power to pay or apply as aforesaid.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
5 April 2026£36,363£36,678026 June 2026
5 April 2025£23,269£30,054024 September 2025
5 April 2024£25,370£32,31204 September 2024
5 April 2023£21,904£26,140020 November 2023
5 April 2022£18,825£36,40909 September 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
Chilton Estate Office
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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