OSCR Scottish charity profile

The Meikle and Paton Fund

ActiveCharity number SC014992
Registered25 September 1928
Main locationPerth And Kinross
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
SC014992
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Operations cover all or most of Scotland
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
PH4 1QG

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The Trust's objectives are to provide for the cost of maintenance and treatment of Protestant ministers, missionaries and Christian workers and others engaged in such work at establishments owned by Crieff Hydro Limited or its wholly owned subsidiaries. The Charity's trustees expend the income generated in each year in accordance with the objectives of the Charity as expressed in the Constitution. In order to achieve this, the trustees provide a subsidy to suitably qualified applicants wishing to stay at an establishment owned by Crieff Hydro. The level of subsidy is reviewed regularly to try to ensure that there is neither an overspend nor a significant underspend of the Trust's income in any year. In addition, the charity initiated a retreat for newly ordained ministers which will took place in February 2025 and attracted 45 attendees.

Charitable purposes

  • 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 relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Beneficiaries

  • Other defined groups

Activities

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

Constitutional objectives

The Trustees shall each year apply and expend the remainder of the income derived from said shares and other Estate in payment of the cost of maintenance and treatment of Protestant Ministers, Missionaries, and Christian Workers and others engaged in such work at the establishments operated by Criett Hydro Limited at Crieff, for such periods as the Trustees may direct and upon such terms as may be arranged between the Trustees and the establishments operated by Crieff Hydro Limited, Declaring that the Trustees shall have full power in selecting Ministers, Missionaries, and Workers for benefits under these presents and in making regulations as to the admission, period of residence and otherwise of said beneficiaries.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 December 2025£60,017£115,76502 July 2026
31 December 2024£59,246£81,530030 June 2025
31 December 2023£54,124£35,763030 September 2024
31 December 2022£50,753£24,060029 September 2023
31 December 2021£45,251£9,866028 September 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
Muldoanich, Stirling Street, Blackford, Perthshire
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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