OSCR Scottish charity profile

The Blair Trust

ActiveCharity number SC018040
Registered28 March 1991
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
SC018040
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
UK and overseas
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
DD1 3DG

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The purpose and objects of the Trust are to benefit trusts, organisations, institutions, societies or bodies established for charitable purposes as the trustees in their sole discretion may from time to time select. All funds of the Trust are unrestricted and may be applied for any charitable purpose at the discretion of the Trustees. The Trust has undertaken charitable activities by way of making charitable donations.

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 the arts, heritage, culture or science
  • 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

  • Other charities or voluntary bodies

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations

Constitutional objectives

The Trustees shall pay or apply the income of the Trust Fund and the whole or any part or parts of the capital thereof as the Trustees shall think fit to or for the benefit of such one or more trusts, organisations, institutions, societies or bodies established for charitable purposes as the Trustees in their sole discretion may from time to time select and that in such proportions, if more than one, and in such manner in all respects as the Trustees in their discretion shall think fit. Provided always that no trust, organisation, institution, society or body as aforesaid shall qualify for selection or for any payment being made to it by the Trustees as aforesaid unless at the time of such selection and at the time when the payment is made it is a trust, organisation, institution, society or body which qualifies for tax exemptions available to charities.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
5 April 2025£19,234£17,08103 April 2026
5 April 2024£19,441£19,393030 December 2024
5 April 2023£164,696£158,15104 January 2024
5 April 2022£20,040£21,54905 January 2023
5 April 2021£20,040£25,251027 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
Walker Dunnett & Co, 29 Commercial Street, Dundee
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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