01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC010357
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- More than one local authority area in Scotland
- Volunteers
- 1-50 volunteers
- Staff
- 0
- Postcode
- EH30 9SL
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
The Charity was set up to support the combined school of St Denis and Cranley, in Edinburgh, and to pupils or former pupils of the combined school or its constituent parts for educational purposes. The directors invite and then consider applications from former pupils, their children and grandchildren for financial grants to be spent for educational purposes.
Charitable purposes
- the advancement of education
- the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
- any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes
Beneficiaries
- Children or young people
- Other defined groups
Activities
- It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
- It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
Constitutional objectives
The objects for which the Association is established are: (A) To establish a beneficial trust to provide for and maintain a school at Cranley School at 16 Spylaw Road and 42 Colinton, Road, Edinburgh with a comprehensive education for children of both sexes as day or boarding students, and to purchase or acquire premises and land for such business, and to equip, maintain and otherwise provide dining, recreational scholastical and sporting facilities necessary for the further educational advancement of such children. (B) To establish and maintain at the said premises and as an independent object to establish or acquire as a going concern and carry on or manage elsewhere any subsidiary affiliated or other schools for the education of girls and boys either in connection with the above mentioned school or as independent schools and to supply to the pupils general instruction of the highest class together with physical, moral and religious training and so that each school shall be carried on as an educational charity. (c) To carry on any school acquired by the Association as Educational Charities and to use and apply for the purpose all monies and properties coming to it.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Total income | Donations | Charitable activities income | Trading income | Investment income | Other income | Total expenditure | Raising funds | Charitable activities spending | Other spending | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 August 2025 | £62,480 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £57,728 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 26 May 2026 |
| 31 August 2024 | £5,710 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £65,973 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 23 May 2025 |
| 31 August 2023 | £7,452 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £40,273 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 28 May 2024 |
| 31 August 2022 | £6,805 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £27,422 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 25 May 2023 |
| 31 August 2021 | £7,272 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £28,853 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 16 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
- The Stables Studio, Hopetoun House, South Queensferry, West Lothian
- Website supplied to OSCR
- Not supplied
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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