01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC011690
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- UK and overseas
- Volunteers
- 0 volunteers
- Staff
- 0
- Postcode
- EH3 8RY
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
The Trustees make grants to charitable organisations in accordance with their grant making policy. This policy centres on the principle of the furtherance of education of people with an emphasis on young people in all parts of the world and the encouragement of a Christian ethic. The trustees tend to favour smaller charities where there may be a particular need, for example in deprived urban areas. There is often a personal contact so that the trustees can monitor the use of the funds being made available to the organisations. The charity structure allows for applications to be considered on their merits at Trustee meetings, where the Trustees undertake a review of the investment portfolio managed on the Trustees behalf with their advisors and consider what funds can be made available to support grants and campaigns.
Charitable purposes
- the prevention or relief of poverty
- the advancement of religion
- the advancement of citizenship or community development
- the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
- the promotion of religious or racial harmony
- the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
- any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes
Beneficiaries
- Other charities or voluntary bodies
Activities
- It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
Constitutional objectives
The Trustees shall hold all sums of money, investments or other assets of whatsoever nature which may at any time be paid or made over to them as Trustees, all of which from time to time shall be hereinafter referred to as 'the Trust Fund' and that in trust for the following purposes:- (FIRST) to pay or apply the whole of the income and/or the capital of the Trust Fund for such charitable purposes as the Trustees shall from time to time determine in their absolute discretion, any income not being paid or applied in the year it arises being accumulated with the capital of the Trust Fund. it being declared that in these presents 'charitable purposes' means purposes which the law regards as charitable.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 April 2025 | £32,115 | £46,388 | 0 | 22 December 2025 |
| 5 April 2024 | £34,375 | £39,333 | 0 | 3 January 2025 |
| 5 April 2023 | £25,901 | £42,813 | 0 | 19 December 2023 |
| 5 April 2022 | £27,071 | £45,724 | 0 | 11 November 2022 |
| 5 April 2021 | £33,961 | £48,264 | 0 | 1 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
- Level 5, 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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