OSCR Scottish charity profile

Challenge Trust

ActiveCharity number SC016121
Registered15 February 1977
Main locationGlasgow City
Legal formUnincorporated association

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC016121
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
UK and overseas
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
1
Postcode
G64 4AX

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The charity makes grants to Christian organisations and individuals for the purposes of furthering Christian faith, relieving poverty and providing education. It does this using funds built up in the past, with grants made at the discretion of the trustees.

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of religion
  • the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Beneficiaries

  • Other defined groups
  • Other charities or voluntary bodies

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

The trustees may apply the Trust Fund and the income thereof or part thereof for such charitable purposes as they in their uncontrolled discretion shall from time to time think fit including, without prejudice to the foregoing generality and without restricting the trustees in any way in the exercise of their discretionary powers, but by way of a guide to the Trustees, the relief of poverty, the advancement of education and the advancement of the Christian Religion.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£18,656£68,137122 December 2025
31 March 2024£18,157£86,926130 December 2024
31 March 2023£34,748£73,443130 December 2023
31 March 2022£22,031£58,213128 December 2022
31 March 2021£5,891£58,62419 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
Blairskaith, Balmore, Glasgow
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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