OSCR Scottish charity profile

India Village Ministries

ActiveCharity number SC032158
Registered2 September 2001
Main locationAberdeenshire
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
SC032158
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Overseas only
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
AB51 7LS

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The charity is set up to bear the annual operating costs of the work carried on by Indi Village Ministries (an Indian charity registered under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act 1976) based in Andhra Pradesh. It supports one full time worker and his family. The charity's principal source of income is from donations by individuals and churches in the United Kingdom.

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of religion
  • the advancement of health
  • the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people
  • Older People
  • People with disabilities or health problems

Activities

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

Constitutional objectives

(a) To relieve poverty and hardship among needy, poor, orphan children in India through the provision of shelter and nutritional, health, educational, general welfare and vocational training programmes. (b) To advance the Christian faith in India and throughout the world by promoting and developing evangelistic and Church planting work through the establishment of training centres for Christian ministry and leadership. (c) To advance education and in particular the education of poor children in India. (d) To relieve persons who are in conditions of need or hardship or who are aged or sick and to relieve the distress caused in the villages of India or the world as the Trustees may from time to time think fit. (e) To promote and fulfil such other charitable purposes beneficial to the village communities in India.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
5 April 2025£212,201£145,71004 January 2026
5 April 2024£163,628£200,72903 January 2025
5 April 2023£170,889£300,28902 January 2024
5 April 2022£298,258£170,962020 January 2023
5 April 2021£226,125£178,24401 January 2022

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
Hillhead Farmhouse, Midmar, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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