OSCR Scottish charity profile

ICAS Foundation

ActiveCharity number SC034836
Registered5 September 2003
Main locationCity of Edinburgh
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
SC034836
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Scotland and other parts of the UK
Volunteers
101-250 volunteers
Staff
4
Postcode
EH12 5BH

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The ICAS Foundation exists to advance education in accountancy and finance by supporting academically talented students from low-income backgrounds. We fulfil this charitable purpose through the delivery of our Nurturing Talent Programme, which provides bursaries, grants, mentoring and structured developmental support to enable students to access, participate in and successfully complete higher education, and to progress into the accountancy and finance profession.

Charitable purposes

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

Beneficiaries

  • Other defined groups
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

Expenses - For payment of the expenses of the constitution and administration of the Trust and of any Government duties or taxes or other duties or taxes which may be exigible from the Trust Fund in the United Kingdom or elsewhere. The Trustees shall have an absolute discretion to decide which expenses of administration shall be charged against income and whch expenses of administration shall be charged, against capital. Application of the Trust Fund - Subject as hereinafter mentioned, for payment or application in such manner and in such shares and propartions and at such times as the Trustees shall in their sole discretion from time to time decide of the whole or any part of the income of the Trust Fund and of the whole or any part of the capital of the Trust Fund to or for:- The promotion in Scotland and in the United Kingdom generally or abroad of research into and education of Accountancy, Finance and Management together with all subjects in any way related thereto (including without prejudice to the generality thereof Law, Economics and Ethics) and any other subjects of an educational nature which may from time to time be of interest directly or indirectly to ?he accountancy profession or any branch thereof (hereinaftei referred to as 'the Subjects'') amongst members of the accountancy profession and the public at large in Scotland and the United Kingdomgenerally or abroad. The commissioning of research by members of the accountancy profession, academics and other individuals (including any of the Trustees) and committeds of the Institute and of other professional bodies in Scotland and in the United Kingdom generally or abroad in respect of the Subjects. The financing of conferences in Scotland and in the United Kingdom generally and abroad for the communication or dissemination of research into and education of the Subjects. The provision of education in the Subjects' by the promotion of or assistance in the promotion of classes or

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 December 2025£614,766£571,37842 April 2026
31 December 2024£690,075£423,681423 May 2025
31 December 2023£390,273£329,684415 May 2024
31 December 2022£383,365£363,783430 June 2023
31 December 2021£369,527£332,876420 May 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
C A House, 21 Haymarket Yards, Edinburgh
Website supplied to OSCR
www.icasfoundation.org.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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