01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- 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
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 April 2025 | £212,201 | £145,710 | 0 | 4 January 2026 |
| 5 April 2024 | £163,628 | £200,729 | 0 | 3 January 2025 |
| 5 April 2023 | £170,889 | £300,289 | 0 | 2 January 2024 |
| 5 April 2022 | £298,258 | £170,962 | 0 | 20 January 2023 |
| 5 April 2021 | £226,125 | £178,244 | 0 | 1 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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