OSCR Scottish charity profile

Mrs Catherine Livingstone Charitable Trust

ActiveCharity number SC010683
Registered26 September 1979
Main locationFife
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
SC010683
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
A specific local point, community or neighbourhood
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
EH12 5HD

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The Trustees have to hold the income and pay out the Income equally between Fourth Kirkcaldy Boy Brigade and Kirk Session of the Church of Saint Brycedale.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of religion
  • 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

Beneficiaries

  • Other charities or voluntary bodies

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations

Constitutional objectives

My Trustees shall set aside the sum of Twenty thousand pounds free of all Government duties and invest the same in their own names and shall hold the said sum as to one-half thereof for behoof of the Congregation of the Church of Saint Brycedale in Kirkcaldy and shall pay over the free annual income therefrom to the Treasurer of the Kirk Session to be applied by the Kirk Session in such manner as they may decide to be most for the good of the congregation, and as to the other one-half thereof for behoof of the Fourth Kirkcaldy Company of the Boys' Brigade so long as it shall continue in existence as a separate body and during its such existence my Trustees shall pay over the free annual income therefrom to the Treasurer of the said Company who shall use the income in accordance with the instructions of the officers of the said Company for such purposes as they may consider to be in the best interests of the Company, and the receipt of the said Treasurer shall be a sufficient discharge to my Trustees who shall not be concerned further us to the proper application of the income and over to the said Treasurer and on the said Fourth Kirkcaldy Company ceasing to exist as a separate body, my Trustees shall make over one-half of the assets then representing the said sum of Twenty thousand pounds equally between the Roy National Lifeboat Institution, for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, of Forty-two Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.1. incorporated by Royal Charter and the said Fife Society for the Blind, the receipt of the Treasurers of each of the said Institutions for the time being a sufficient discharge to my Trustees, and (lastly) I direct my Trustees to make over the whole residue of my means and estate in equal shares to Doctor Barnardo’s Homes, Eighteen to Twenty- six Stepney Causeway, London, E.1., and the Scottish National Institution for War Blinded, Gillespie Crescent, Edinburgh,

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
5 April 2025£7,960£96003 March 2026
5 April 2024£7,375£96003 February 2026
5 April 2023£7,152£960028 January 2026
5 April 2022£6,421£960028 January 2026
5 April 2021£5,523£960028 January 2026

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
Thorntons Law LLP, 3rd Floor, City Point, 65 Haymarket Terrace, 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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