OSCR Scottish charity profile

Miss Catherine Thompson Charitable Trust

ActiveCharity number SC010275
Registered23 June 1986
Main locationCity of Edinburgh
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
SC010275
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Scotland and other parts of the UK
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
EH3 6AQ

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The charity awards grants to eligible Institutions and are intended to help these institutions provide tangible benefits to such beneficiary groups as the Trustees may deem appropriate. The Trustees maintain an endowment fund, the income from which is used to finance any awards granted.

Charitable purposes

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

Beneficiaries

  • Other charities or voluntary bodies

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations

Constitutional objectives

For such purposes as the law shall from time to time regard as charitable within the meaning of Section 360 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1910 or any Act amending or replacing the same the Trustees being hereby directed to distribute the Trust Fund at such time or times and in such amounts as they may determine in their sole discretion for charitable purposes only, but with power to the Trustees in their discretion to accumulate the Trust income in whole or in part for a period of Twenty-one years from the date hereof: And it is hereby specifically declared and provided that the Trustees shall be prohibited from exercising their powers (a) other than for charitable purposes or (b) in such manner as to benefit directly or indirectly me or any person who has contributed to the Trust Fund, or any spouse of mine or any such person:

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 May 2025£7,363£9,06106 February 2026
31 May 2024£7,432£5,664022 October 2024
31 May 2023£6,034£4,93808 December 2023
31 May 2022£5,477£3,576014 December 2022
31 May 2021£5,747£7,522018 January 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
Murray Beith Murray, 3 Glenfinlas Street, Edinburgh
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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