OSCR Scottish charity profile

Buccleuch Charitable Foundation

ActiveCharity number SC013420
Registered22 January 1979
Main locationScottish Borders
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
SC013420
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Scotland and other parts of the UK
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
TD7 5ES

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Provide small donations to individuals and organisations that are seeking funds towards projects that meet our charitable purpose.

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of religion
  • the advancement of health
  • the saving of lives
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
  • the advancement of public participation in sport
  • 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
  • the advancement of environmental protection or improvement
  • the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
  • the advancement of animal welfare
  • any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people
  • Older People
  • People with disabilities or health problems
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
  • Other charities or voluntary bodies

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations

Constitutional objectives

To relieve or assist in the relief of poverty, hardship and distress which may have fallen on individuals and families through illness, death or old age. To institute or support all manner of experimental and research work related in any known or puported or possible way to the investigation and cure of disease or physical affliction To support or assist financially or otherwise any other charity or charitable organisation whatever its objects and wheresoever situated so long as the same shall be a valid charity To support or assist financially or otherwise any religious organisation of whatever denomination. To carry out such other legally charitable purposes as the Trustees, being not less than three in number, shall from time to time unanimously declare.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
30 June 2025£133,624£101,923019 December 2025
30 June 2024£17,520£36,42806 January 2025
30 June 2023£16,565£15,34606 December 2023
30 June 2022£27,371£57,55203 February 2023
30 June 2021£74,276£57,593011 April 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
Buccleuch, Weatherhouse, Bowhill, Selkirk
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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