OSCR Scottish charity profile

Alerce Trust

ActiveCharity number SC037122
Registered20 December 2005
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
SC037122
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
UK and overseas
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
EH3 9EE

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The Trustees have indicated that their preferred area of benefit would be centred around conservation issues and they seek to identify well managed projects in this area. The Trustees are not bound to continue supporting these areas and may at times favour other areas of benefit.

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • 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, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations

Constitutional objectives

The Trustees shall hold the Trust Fund and the income of it to pay and apply the same to or for the benefit of or in furtherance of such purposes, objects or institutions charitable in law and in such proportions and manner as the Trustees shall think fit. In exercising their discretion in terms of this Clause the Trustees shall give primary consideration to the wishes of those persons who gift or lend funds to the Trust but the final decision as to distributions rests with the Trustees and this proviso shall impose no binding obligation on the Tustees.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£76,814£473,612013 October 2025
31 March 2024£66,065£322,589025 November 2024
31 March 2023£46,981£4,836021 November 2023
31 March 2022£278£350,97801 August 2022
31 March 2021£47£527,529013 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
Turcan Connell, 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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