01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC009799
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- Wider, but within one local authority area
- Volunteers
- 0 volunteers
- Staff
- 0
- Postcode
- DG89HT
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
To assist the vulnerable within the parish by providing financial support. Names are selected by the parish ministers.
Charitable purposes
- the prevention or relief of poverty
Beneficiaries
- Older People
Activities
- It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
Constitutional objectives
For payment out of the income of The McKerlie bequest Fund...(b) of small Annuities or grants, not exceeding £12 to any one person in any year, to aged and necessitous natives of Wigtownshire, to be selected by the Trustees in their absolute discretion (and whom they may select for benefit from the income of The McKerlie Bequest Fund, notwithstanding the recipient shall be possessed of some small private means.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 January 2026 | £125 | £661 | 0 | 19 July 2026 |
| 31 January 2025 | £75 | £625 | 0 | 13 November 2025 |
| 31 January 2024 | £500 | £525 | 0 | 14 August 2024 |
| 31 January 2023 | £525 | £625 | 0 | 14 August 2023 |
| 31 January 2022 | £1,050 | £625 | 0 | 26 July 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
- Glebehill, Church Lane, Wigtown, Dumfries & Galloway
- Website supplied to OSCR
- Not supplied
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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