OSCR Scottish charity profile

Borders Health Board General Practitioners Benevolent Fund

Known as Borders Benevolent Fund

ActiveCharity number SC017117
Registered10 May 1975
Main locationScottish Borders
Legal formUnincorporated association

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC017117
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Wider, but within one local authority area
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
EH44 6QU

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The fund exists to assist necessitous Borders GPs and their families. Applications for support from the fund can be made by GPs themselves, their colleagues or practice managers with consent of the GP in need. All such requests are carefully considered by the fund trustees and assessed on an individual basis.

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of health
  • 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

  • Children or young people
  • Older People
  • People with disabilities or health problems

Activities

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

Constitutional objectives

The purposes of the Benevolent Fund are the following:- 1.To make grants in the deserving cases to necessitous men or women engaged in the practice of medicine in the area of the Borders Health Board of to their own widow or dependants. 2.To pay the expenses of administration of the trust hereby created.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
28 February 2025£5,937£1,073013 November 2025
28 February 2024£5,673£11,022029 October 2024
28 February 2023£5,521£11,016027 October 2023
28 February 2022£4,927£1,038023 November 2022
28 February 2021£5,078£15,74207 October 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
St Ronan's Health Centre, Buchan Place, Innerleithen, Scottish Borders
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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