01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC011027
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- Scotland and other parts of the UK
- Volunteers
- 0 volunteers
- Staff
- 0
- Postcode
- EH3 8FY
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
The trustees provide funding to others to give lectureships called 'The Honyman Gillespie Lectureships'.
Charitable purposes
- the advancement of health
Beneficiaries
- Other defined groups
Activities
- It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
Constitutional objectives
The said sum of £30,000 and to apply the free income of the same, or, in their discretion, the capital, or to accumulate the income or partially along with the capital, and apply the income or capital of the accumulated amount, and that for the purpose of founding or contributing to found such new School of Medicine, and, failing any subsequent and more detailed expression of my intention, my wish is that such School of Medicine shall be established in such part of the United Kingdom as my Trustees after advising with Surgeon-General Gordon, Honorary Surgeon to the Queen, and, Abiathar Wall, Esquire, Member of the Royal College, England think fit, and shall embrace, as well as medical studies, the teaching of Homoeopathy and other new medical discoveries, and in which School the practice of Vivisection shall be entirely prohibited. and in the event of my death before executing such separate Deed as aforesaid, I empower, my Trustees, with the view of duly carrying out my intentions herein generally expressed, and of promoting the success of said School, to frame and establish a Constitution therefor, and to pay the said funds and accumulations over to the general governing body thereof, so to be constituted, with such powers and directions as they may think proper,
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 November 2025 | £7,293 | £7,462 | 0 | 4 March 2026 |
| 30 November 2024 | £7,745 | £6,833 | 0 | 26 February 2025 |
| 30 November 2023 | £7,129 | £6,080 | 0 | 15 August 2024 |
| 30 November 2022 | £6,448 | £5,636 | 0 | 17 February 2023 |
| 30 November 2021 | £5,936 | £6,634 | 0 | 24 March 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 and 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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