OSCR Scottish charity profile

Melville Trust

ActiveCharity number SC010302
Registered4 September 1962
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
SC010302
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
More than one local authority area in Scotland
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
EH3 8FY

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The trustees award grants to students undertaking cancer research.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of health

Beneficiaries

  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Activities

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

Constitutional objectives

The objects of the Scheme are generally the care and cure of cancer as prescribed by the Truster in his Testamentary Writings, and in pursuance thereof of advancing by investigation, research or otherwise in any way knowledge with regard to the causes of cancer and if possible of curing or alleviating cancer.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
30 September 2025£92,573£267,929029 May 2026
30 September 2024£99,378£382,525019 June 2025
30 September 2023£106,556£235,37807 May 2024
30 September 2022£104,932£329,195021 June 2023
30 September 2021£105,339£308,283020 June 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
Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP, 9 Haymarket Square, 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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