OSCR Scottish charity profile

Onward Trust

ActiveCharity number SC028389
Registered29 October 1998
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
SC028389
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
A specific local point, community or neighbourhood
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
EH3 9EE

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Regular meetings with senior staff of HMP Edinburgh and Barnardo's as appointed operators, to review the running and development of the Centre

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people
  • Other defined groups

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

(i) The preservation and protection of the mental health and the relief of poverty, hardship and distress of and among spouses, partners, families, dependants and friends of individuals who have suffered a legal restriction of their liberty and are detained in prison or other similar place of confinement involving such a restiction by the establishment of and maintenance of visitors reception centres (ii) The encouragement of educational projects (iii) The foundation, endowment and equipment of schools, colleges and other centres of learning, libraries, sports and welfare centres (iv) The encouragement of the study and practice of any useful branch of human knowledge (including research and particularly medical research) by the provision of buildings equipment or otherwise (v) The establishment of educational scholarships of any kind at any University, College or place of higher learning or any school (vi) The relief of poverty and need of those in necessitous circumstances

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
30 April 2025£153£23,90909 January 2026
30 April 2024£8,840£23,701010 January 2025
30 April 2023£1,105£24,029022 January 2024
30 April 2022£1,105£24,029015 November 2022
30 April 2021£3,003£23,30907 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
Turcan Connell, Princes Exchange, 1 Earl Grey 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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