OSCR Scottish charity profile

Cranley School Ltd

Known as The Cranley Trust

ActiveCharity number SC010357
Registered10 February 1970
Main locationCity of Edinburgh
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
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

5 periods
Year endTotal incomeDonationsCharitable activities incomeTrading incomeInvestment incomeOther incomeTotal expenditureRaising fundsCharitable activities spendingOther spendingStaffReturn received
31 August 2025£62,480£0£0£0£0£0£57,728£0£0£0026 May 2026
31 August 2024£5,710£0£0£0£0£0£65,973£0£0£0023 May 2025
31 August 2023£7,452£0£0£0£0£0£40,273£0£0£0028 May 2024
31 August 2022£6,805£0£0£0£0£0£27,422£0£0£0025 May 2023
31 August 2021£7,272£0£0£0£0£0£28,853£0£0£0016 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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