OSCR Scottish charity profile

Elizabeth Ferguson Charitable Trust Fund

Known as Elizabeth Hardie Ferguson Charitable Trust Fund

ActiveCharity number SC026240
Registered5 March 1997
Main locationOutwith Scotland
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
SC026240
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
UK and overseas
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
SK9 1PL

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The charity is set up to provide grants and donations to those in need.

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of health
  • the saving of lives
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
  • the advancement of public participation in sport
  • 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

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people
  • Older People
  • People with disabilities or health problems
  • Other defined groups
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
  • Other charities or voluntary bodies

Activities

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

Constitutional objectives

The object of the Fund shall be the financial support of such charitable organisations or activities at such places or such times and in such ways as the Trustees shall in their sole discretion determine provided that no part of the Fund may be used for any other purpose. The Trustees may at any time and from time to time hold, payor apply or allocate the whole free income of the trust estate and shall at any time and from time to time hold, payor apply the whole or any portion or portions of the capital of the trust estate to or towards or for the benefit of or in furtherance of such charitable ('charitable' shall have the meaning assigned in Sections 505 and 506 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 or any statutory modification or re-enactment thereof for the time being in force) purpose or charitable purposes and to provide financial support to such charitable institutions, foundations, bodies or trusts at such places or such times, in such manner and in such amounts and proportions and upon such erms and conditions as the Trustees may from time to time in their sole discretion determine, provided always that no part of the Fund may be used for any other purpose.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
30 April 2025£468,797£509,542014 January 2026
30 April 2024£536,286£311,524027 January 2025
30 April 2023£724,898£311,349015 February 2024
30 April 2022£7£750013 December 2022
30 April 2021£153,777£206,788013 December 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
2nd Floor Barfield House , 26-28 Alderley Road , Wilmslow, Cheshire
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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