OSCR Scottish charity profile

Dow Memorial Trust

ActiveCharity number SC028179
Registered16 March 1998
Main locationDundee City
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
SC028179
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
More than one local authority area in Scotland
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
DD1 4BJ

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Provide Scholarship payments to medical and dental students

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education

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

To provide funding, staff, equipment, materials, bursaries, or grants for the purposes of promoting and assisting the activities of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry of the University of Dundee in such way and manner as the Trustees in an uncontrolled discretion may decide upon, and to pay any other costs or expenses incurred in promoting and furthering such aims. To implement within the said University of Dundee such other legally charitable purposes for the benefit of the said Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry or for the advancement of education, or promotion of medical research as the Trustees may decide upon.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
5 April 2025£190,866£210,393016 February 2026
5 April 2024£187,351£248,630013 November 2024
5 April 2023£197,427£500,213021 December 2023
5 April 2022£207,741£99,82707 October 2022
5 April 2021£172,750£276,958029 October 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
c/o Thorntons Law LLP, Whitehall House, 33 Yeaman Shore, Dundee
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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