OSCR Scottish charity profile

Mrs Elizabeth Honeyman Gillespie Trust- Medical Fund

ActiveCharity number SC011027
Registered14 August 1911
Main locationCity of Edinburgh
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
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

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
30 November 2025£7,293£7,46204 March 2026
30 November 2024£7,745£6,833026 February 2025
30 November 2023£7,129£6,080015 August 2024
30 November 2022£6,448£5,636017 February 2023
30 November 2021£5,936£6,634024 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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