OSCR Scottish charity profile

Bute Museum Endowment Fund 1987

ActiveCharity number SC009667
Registered14 September 1987
Main locationArgyll And Bute
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
SC009667
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
PA20 0EP

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The Bute Museum Endowment Fund was set up in 1987 to provide a source of income for Bute Museum. The dividends from the investments form the source of income.

Charitable purposes

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

Beneficiaries

  • Other charities or voluntary bodies

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations

Constitutional objectives

We provide and declare that the Trust Fund shall be held by the Trustees in trust only for the following purposes : ... The Trustees shall pay the income of the Trust Fund to the administrators of the Bute Museum. (c) The Trustees may in their sole and unfettered discretion pay the capital of the Trust Fund or any part or parts thereof to the administrators of the Bute Museum on such terms and conditions, if any, as the Trustees in their sole and unfettered discretion think proper. (d) The Trustees shall be the sole judges of the identity of the administrators of the Bute Museum. (e) In the event of the Bute Museum ceasing to be used as a Museum, of which event the Trustees shall be the sole judges, the Trustees shall apply the income and capital of the Trust Fund for the advancement of education in all its forms in the Isle of Bute including without prejudice to the foregoing generality the granting of scholarships for research into the history, natural history, agriculture, archaeology, industrial archaeology, architecture, social history, culture, environment and geology of the Isle of Bute and the printing and publishing of the results of such researches all as the Trustees in their sole and unfettered discretion think proper.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 December 2025£6,773£10,000014 July 2026
31 December 2024£7,646£0018 June 2025
31 December 2023£12,622£14,100019 February 2024
31 December 2022£6,547£5,000016 February 2023
31 December 2021£10,658£9,500015 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
Bute Museum, Stuart Street, Rothesay, Isle of Bute
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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