OSCR Scottish charity profile

Duncan Trust

ActiveCharity number SC015311
Registered23 January 1893
Main locationAngus
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
SC015311
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
A specific local point, community or neighbourhood
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
DD11 1NE

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Trustees meet twice a year (November and December) to discuss distributing funds generated by the Trust equally with one half share going to churches/Ministers in Arbroath & Carnoustie and the other half going to students studying in Scotland to become Ministers or Missionaries.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of religion

Beneficiaries

  • Other defined groups

Activities

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

Constitutional objectives

With regard to the whole Free Residue and Remainder of my said Estate and Effects heritable and moveable and real and personal, above conveyed , and whole prices and proceeds thereof, after implementing and fulfilling the whole previous provisions and purposes, I Direct and Appoint the same to be divided, paid, applied, and disposed of in the following manner, videlicet To pay or assign and convey, in favour of the members of the said Free Church Presbytery of Arbroath, for the time being, to be held by them and their successors in office for behoof of all the congregations presently within the bounds of the said Free Church of Presbytery, that is to say the Free Church Congregation For and towards the better supplementing the stipends of the ministers of the said congregations.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£157,005£149,618012 December 2025
31 March 2024£139,391£137,33605 November 2024
31 March 2023£139,556£143,79509 November 2023
31 March 2022£109,433£115,591021 December 2022
31 March 2021£135,398£125,546023 November 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
C/O Thorntons Law LLP, Brothockbank House, Arbroath
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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