OSCR Scottish charity profile

John Primrose Trust

ActiveCharity number SC009173
Registered24 March 1926
Main locationDumfries And Galloway
Legal formUnincorporated association

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC009173
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
A specific local point, community or neighbourhood
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
DG1 1LN

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

To provide grants or donations to applicants with a conection to Dumfries or Maxwelltown

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of education

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people
  • Older People
  • 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 Income of the Residue when available and as set free by the death of Annuitants or forfeiture I direct my Trustees year by year to apply for the benefit of poor respectable and deserving persons old and young, and legitimate or illegitimate by giving them money or providing comforts or paying their rent or assisting deserving needful boys and girls in getting through their apprenticeship or giving them a start in life, but only those who have some connection with Dumfries or Maxwelltown by parentage or residence shall be entitled to benefit, or my Trustees may make annual Donations to Benevolent or Charitable Institutions or Societies in Dumfries or Maxwelltown, and subject to the above my Trustees for the time being shall be the sole and undisputed Judges of who and what are to benefit and of the way and manner in which the money is to be applied.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
24 March 2025£17,485£22,476012 February 2026
24 March 2024£17,069£17,300023 January 2025
24 March 2023£15,340£20,60307 March 2024
24 March 2022£14,369£20,733028 September 2022
24 March 2021£16,362£15,73908 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
1 Newall Terrace, Dumfries
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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