OSCR Scottish charity profile

Margaret R Watson's Charitable Trust

ActiveCharity number SC011192
Registered15 May 1937
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
SC011192
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
A specific local point, community or neighbourhood
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
BS2 0JJ

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The Trust’s main objective is to form a committee to which the free annual income is paid and for the Committee in turn to expend the income in their absolute and uncontrolled discretion in alleviation of the distress of the poor of Parkhead District. Applicants for relief must be Protestants and of Scottish parentage and preferably, though not necessarily, born and brought up in the Parkhead District.

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of religion

Beneficiaries

  • Other defined groups

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals

Constitutional objectives

I direct the said Bank to pay, on the lapse of the life-rent in favour of my said brother, should he survive me or on my death should be predecease me, to the Parkhead East Church of Scotland, formerly the Parkhead United Free Church of Scotland, a legacy of Five Hundred pounds sterling, free of legacy duty.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
29 May 2025£8,709£11,540012 February 2026
29 May 2024£10,528£10,425028 February 2025
29 May 2023£5,879£8,307028 February 2024
29 May 2022£6,061£7,57408 March 2023
29 May 2021£4,930£10,491028 February 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
Ludlow Trust Company Ltd, First Floor, Tower Wharf, Cheese Lane, Bristol
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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