OSCR Scottish charity profile

Tam O'Shanter Trust

ActiveCharity number SC030043
Registered14 March 2000
Main locationEast Lothian
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
SC030043
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
UK and overseas
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
PH21 1NS

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

To support a variety of charitable causes determined by the Trustees. The current aims of the charity are wide and, although three areas of particular interest have been identified, the Trust continues to support a variety of worthwhile causes.

Charitable purposes

  • any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes

Beneficiaries

  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations

Constitutional objectives

The Trustees shall pay or apply the income of the Trust Fund and shall have power in their discretion at any time or times to pay or apply the whole or any part or parts of the capital thereof for any purposes as are charitable both in law and within the meaning of Section 505 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 or any Act amending or replacing the same. and it is hereby specifically declared and provided that the Trustees shall be prohibited from exercising their powers (a) other than for charitable purposes only, or (b) in such a manner as to benefit directly or indirectly me or any person who has contributed to the Trust Fund, or any spouse of mine or of any such person.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£400,167£1,259,799030 September 2025
31 March 2024£407,492£792,957017 January 2025
31 March 2023£245,628£1,307,629016 August 2023
31 March 2022£24,121£812,654015 December 2022
31 March 2021£25,629£1,297,275015 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
Little Milton, Nr Kingussie, Inverness-shire
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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