01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC024589
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- Wider, but within one local authority area
- Volunteers
- 1-50 volunteers
- Staff
- 1
- Postcode
- DG1 4ZE
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
The Crichton Foundation supports the development of the academic programmes of the educational institutions on the Crichton University Campus, widens access to higher education, improves the academic facilities on the site, conserves and improves the Crichton site and gives financial support to the students of the Crichton Campus. Fundraising events include the annual Women of Dumfries and Galloway Lunch, evenings of opera and jazz and gala dinners. The Crichton Conversations lectures are followed by a Q&A debate with the audience. We also receive annual donations through our Friends Scheme. In 2024-2025 £26,352 was distributed to students. Specific awards to students include the Landale, Terry and Evelyn Hastings Prizes. A lump sum is granted annually to Dumfries and Galloway College as a discretionary fund.
Charitable purposes
- the advancement of education
- the advancement of citizenship or community development
- the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
- the advancement of environmental protection or improvement
Beneficiaries
- Children or young people
- Older People
- No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
Activities
- It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
- It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
Constitutional objectives
The charitable purposes of the Foundation ('the Charitable Purposes') are: (a) to protect, preserve, manage, develop and to assist in the protection, management and development of: (i) buildings, land and sites of architectural, scenic or historic interest. and (ii) landscape, gardens and countryside. and (iii) historical and architectural heritage. relating to the site of the former Crichton Hospital in particular, and to other locations within Dumfries and Galloway which are or may become related to activities on the former Crichton Hospital site, to encourage and enable the public to use and enjoy the same. (b) to maintain, develop and assist and encourage in the funding, maintenance and development of the Crichton University Campus, Dumfries, and all or any of the academic institutions operating on the Campus from time to time and, generally, to provide, or assist in the provision of, facilities for the education, training, recreation and advancement of students attending courses of education at the Campus. (c) to carry out such other purposes for the advancement of education as the Trustees shall from time to time think fit including, without prejudice to the foregoing generality, the provision, and assisting with the provision of education of whatever type by providing, assisting, forming and encouraging reputable educational or training establishments or places whether at the Crichton University Campus, elsewhere in the United Kingdom or outwith the United Kingdom.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Total income | Donations | Charitable activities income | Trading income | Investment income | Other income | Total expenditure | Raising funds | Charitable activities spending | Other spending | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2025 | £92,851 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £148,614 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 1 | 16 December 2025 |
| 31 March 2024 | £121,541 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £180,929 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 1 | 2 December 2024 |
| 31 March 2023 | £119,736 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £105,521 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 1 | 14 November 2023 |
| 31 March 2022 | £115,140 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £85,137 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 1 | 1 December 2022 |
| 31 March 2021 | £88,565 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £56,607 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 1 | 2 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
- Grierson House, Crichton University Campus, Dumfries
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.crichtonfoundation.org
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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