01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC026604
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- UK and overseas
- Volunteers
- 0 volunteers
- Staff
- 0
- Postcode
- EH10 5PF
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
The trustees' principal aims are to support the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture and/or science. environmental protection and/or improvement. education and/or health. The trust's only funds are its professionally managed investments and it does not set out to raise additional funds. Other than in exceptional circumstances, it focuses mainly but not necessarily only on smaller Scottish charities run mainly by volunteers, with few if any resources significant enough to mount formal fund-raising campaigns and for capital aspects of projects carried out wholly or mainly in Scotland. The trust conducts its own research into potential beneficaries and achieves its aims by awarding normally modest project grants to stable, sustainable charitable organisations able to show environmentally friendy practices and high levels of achievement.
Charitable purposes
- the prevention or relief of poverty
- the advancement of education
- the advancement of religion
- the advancement of health
- the saving of lives
- the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
- 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
- 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
For the purpose of the trust charitable purposes shall mean such purposes as are at the date of this date or any time in the future recognised by law of Scotland or England as being charitable whether that recognition is under general law or tax law & whether registered with a body of charity commissioners or equivalent or approved by tax purposes by the Fiancial Intermediaries and Claims Office (Scotland) of Inland Revenue under such legislation, legislation and procedures as shall be in force from time to time the trustees acknowledging that the legislation meantime most applicable in Scotland is section 506 (1) of Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 and the supervisory framework established by the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1990
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 April 2025 | £8,943 | £6,317 | 0 | 31 December 2025 |
| 5 April 2024 | £8,620 | £4,997 | 0 | 23 December 2024 |
| 5 April 2023 | £8,976 | £6,475 | 0 | 19 December 2023 |
| 5 April 2022 | £8,460 | £5,645 | 0 | 20 December 2022 |
| 5 April 2021 | £7,745 | £5,490 | 0 | 29 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
- 60 Craiglea Drive, 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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