OSCR Scottish charity profile

Harry Bell Trust

ActiveCharity number SC029156
Registered12 June 1999
Main locationFife
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
SC029156
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
A specific local point, community or neighbourhood
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
FK14 7DU

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

This charity provides small scholarship travel awards to pupils to pursue their interest in literature. this helps them appreciate and explore the countries and cultures that the authors would have been immersed in to develop a deep understanding and appreciation for the works they have been reading.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people

Activities

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

Constitutional objectives

The purposes to which the Trust Fund (in whole or in part and whether capital or Income thereof) may be applied by the Trustees are the provision of scholarships, awards or prizes to enable pupils of Dollar Academy, Dollar, to travel in order to engage in the study of Literature or the doing of or the provision of anything that in the opinion of the Trustees might be instrumental in the understanding or appreciation of Literature by the pupils of Dollar Academy: Declaring that in the granting of scholarships, awards or prizes and in their disposal of funds within the purposes of the Trust the Trustees shall have a full unchallengeable discretion which shall not be subject to appeal.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
18 April 2025£1,857£1,991016 January 2026
18 April 2024£4,294£2,185016 December 2024
18 April 2023£2,178£2,324018 December 2023
18 April 2022£2,116£1,634014 December 2022
18 April 2021£2,300£1,204014 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
Dollar Academy, Dollar
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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