OSCR Scottish charity profile

Historic Scotland Foundation

ActiveCharity number SC032044
Registered8 August 2001
Main locationCity of Edinburgh
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC032044
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Operations cover all or most of Scotland
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
EH3 9EE

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The charity provides financial support to Historic Environment Scotland to be used towards its projects and activities in relation to Scotland's built heritage.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
  • any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes

Beneficiaries

  • Other defined groups

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations

Constitutional objectives

The objects of the Foundation are to promote and advance for the public benefit the work of Historic Environment Scotland (Scottish charity number SC045925) (which for the purposes of this Memorandum of Association shall mean the body corporate created by section 1 of the Historic Environment Scotland Act 2014 (asp 19) and its successors) by making grants and providing financial support for projects and activities being carried out or to be carried out by Historic Environment Scotland (a) in relation to Scotland's built heritage, including ancient monuments, archaeological sites and landscapes, historic buildings, parks and gardens and designed landscapes, and (b) by doing anything else of a charitable nature which may promote and advance the work of Historic Environment Scotland as may be for the public benefit.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£80,810£117,600031 October 2025
31 March 2024£1,028,999£57,03908 November 2024
31 March 2023£24,543£73,81001 December 2023
31 March 2022£127,284£975,092023 December 2022
31 March 2021£60,645£302,495021 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
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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