OSCR Scottish charity profile

Jean Armour Burns Trust

ActiveCharity number SC020214
Registered29 May 1992
Main locationEast Ayrshire
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
SC020214
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
More than one local authority area in Scotland
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
G77 5DJ

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The purposes of the trust are firstly to advance and promote the education of the general public by stimulating interest in the life and work of Robert Burns by assisting voluntary organisations, local authorities and other bodies and secondly to provide relief to those in need of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
  • the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Beneficiaries

  • Older People

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

(a) to advance and promote the education of the general public, and in particular the inhabitants of Scotland, without distinction of sex or of political, religious or other opinions, by stimulating the public interest in the life, poetry and work of Robert Burns and by associating voluntary organisations, local authorities and other bodies of whatever status. (b) to provide for the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 October 2025£20,403£30,03108 May 2026
31 October 2024£18,375£40,399011 June 2025
31 October 2023£17,610£24,266014 March 2024
31 October 2022£17,230£23,384020 July 2023
31 October 2021£18,476£19,453022 May 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
3B Ramsay Court, Eaglesham Road, Newton Mearns
Website supplied to OSCR
jeanarmourburnstrust.co.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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