OSCR Scottish charity profile

Davidson (Nairn) Charitable Trust

ActiveCharity number SC024273
Registered2 November 1995
Main locationHighland
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
SC024273
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Wider, but within one local authority area
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
IV12 4AX

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

As before per Answer to Question C1 above

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of religion
  • the advancement of health
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
  • the advancement of public participation in sport
  • the advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation
  • 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 defined groups

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations

Constitutional objectives

The trustees shall hold and administer such sums as they shall receive from the Estate of the deceased Mrs. Christina Stephen Davidson, late of Arden , Galcantray, Croy, by Nairn, who died at Inverness on the Twenty-seventh day of November, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety-three, together with such other funds as they may receive all for the benefit of the community in the District of Nairn, otherwise Nairn District, and that by relieving poverty, suffering and distress in that District, by relieving the needs of the elderly there, by furthering the health and advancing the education of persons living there and by providing or assisting in the provision of facilities for recreation and other leisure-time occupation in the interests of social welfare in said District.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
30 November 2025£32,328£120,327024 August 2026
30 November 2024£44,716£78,50701 September 2025
30 November 2023£41,070£41,90207 October 2024
30 November 2022£42,741£367,870028 August 2023
30 November 2021£42,683£200,278029 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
20 High Street, Nairn
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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