OSCR Scottish charity profile

Benson-Wilson Charitable Trust

ActiveCharity number SC027256
Registered3 November 1997
Main locationCity of Edinburgh
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
SC027256
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
UK and overseas
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
EH3 6AQ

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The charity awards grants to eligible institutions, to be used to help these institutions provide tangible benefits to such beneficiary groups as the Trustees may deem appropriate.

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of health
  • the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
  • the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
  • any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes

Beneficiaries

  • Other charities or voluntary bodies

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations

Constitutional objectives

The Trustees shall have power during the period of twenty one years from the execution hereof to accumulate the whole or so much (if any) of the income of the Trust Fund as the Trustees shall think fit by investing the same and the resulting income thereof in any manner hereinafter authorised as an accretion to the capital of the Trust Fund and as one fund therewith for all purposes

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2026£20,038£26,06108 July 2026
31 March 2025£19,663£21,25906 November 2025
31 March 2024£16,409£24,561022 October 2024
31 March 2023£16,710£12,596014 September 2023
31 March 2022£14,029£15,93207 September 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
3 Glenfinlas Street, 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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