OSCR Scottish charity profile

Sylvia Aitken's Charitable Trust

ActiveCharity number SC010556
Registered9 January 1985
Main locationRenfrewshire
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
SC010556
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Scotland and other parts of the UK
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
1
Postcode
PA6 7DD

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Provides donations to UK registered charities

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of health
  • the saving of lives
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
  • the advancement of public participation in sport
  • the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended
  • the advancement of environmental protection or improvement
  • 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

The Trustees shall hold and apply the said sum together with such other funds and assets, if any, as I or any other person may from time to time transfer to them as Trustees ('the Trust Estate') for the following purposes:.. (2) for payment of the whole or such part of the free income and the whole or such part of the capital of the Trust Estate as the Trustees may from time to time consider desirable for such charitable purposes or to such charitable institutions, societies, foundations or funds as the Trustees may in their absolute discretion select (and without prejudice to the discretion of the Trustees it is my wish that the Trust Estate be applied in supporting charitable bodies with the primary purpose of care and treatment of cancer patients).

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endTotal incomeDonationsCharitable activities incomeTrading incomeInvestment incomeOther incomeTotal expenditureRaising fundsCharitable activities spendingOther spendingStaffReturn received
5 April 2025£449,441£0£0£0£0£0£416,832£0£0£0119 December 2025
5 April 2024£112,245£0£0£0£0£0£370,952£0£0£0122 December 2024
5 April 2023£114,775£0£0£0£0£0£360,190£0£0£0119 December 2023
5 April 2022£758,111£665,496£0£0£92,615£0£478,218£31,514£446,704£0123 December 2022
5 April 2021£2,367,328£2,322,155£0£0£45,173£0£239,842£20,188£219,654£0123 December 2021

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
Fergusons Chartered Accountants, 24 Woodside, Houston, Renfrewshire
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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