OSCR Scottish charity profile

The Laidlaw-Hall Trust

ActiveCharity number SC020424
Registered3 July 1992
Main locationCity of Edinburgh
Legal formUnincorporated association

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC020424
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
UK and overseas
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
EH9 3FE

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

To fund extracurricular field and other studies carried out by Earth Science students in the School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education

Beneficiaries

  • Other defined groups

Activities

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

Constitutional objectives

The trustees shall hold and apply the income and so much, including the whole, of the capital of the trust fund for the ends hereinbefore briefly set forth through the makinq to such of the discretionary objects, such grants, on such terms , at such times ,and in such amounts as they in their uncontrolled discretion shall from time to time think f i t . Such grants may be made either (a) to the department to enable it to provide or assist in the provision of such educational field work studies and relative necessary equipment as the trustees may approve for students who would not, but for the making of such grants, in any prescribed course of study take take part in work of the approved nature. or (b) to such individual students, for such extra-curricular activities of an educational nature (including, without prejudice to that generality, field work studies) and relative necessary equipment all as the same may supplement any prescribed course of study and be approved by the trustees as appropriate, as the trustees shall elect.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2026£10,854£5,023028 July 2026
31 March 2025£8,869£10,374026 August 2025
31 March 2024£13,942£8,393019 April 2024
31 March 2023£8,295£60006 September 2023
31 March 2022£8,064£16,600016 August 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
Grant Institute, University of Edinburgh, James Hutton Road, Edinburgh
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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