01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC037343
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- Overseas only
- Volunteers
- 1-50 volunteers
- Staff
- 356
- Postcode
- EH3 9EE
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
Turquoise Mountain is a non-profit, non-governmental organization specializing in heritage based urban regeneration, traditional craft-training and connecting artisans to market opportunities. We seek to provide jobs, skills, and a sense of pride, through heritage.
Charitable purposes
- the prevention or relief of poverty
- the advancement of education
- the advancement of citizenship or community development
- the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
- the advancement of environmental protection or improvement
- the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Beneficiaries
- Children or young people
- No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
Activities
- It carries out activities or services itself
Constitutional objectives
(1) The objects of the Company are to promote education and urban and rural regeneration in areas of social and economic deprivation primarily, but not exclusively, in the Republic of Afghanistan by all or any of the following means.- (a) the relief of poverty. (b) the relief of unemployment (c) the advancement of education, training or retraining particularly among unemployed people, and providing unemployed people with work experience. (d) the creation of training and employment opportunities by the provision of teaching facilities, workspace, buildings and/or land for use on favourable terms. (e) the preservation of buildings or sites of historical or architectural importance. (f) the protection or conservation of the environment. (g) the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science. (h) to promote such other purposes, objects or institutions charitable in law and in such proportions and manner as the Directors shall think fit and are related to or in support of the foregoing objects.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Total income | Donations | Charitable activities income | Trading income | Investment income | Other income | Total expenditure | Raising funds | Charitable activities spending | Other spending | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 December 2024 | £20,498,279 | £1,107,053 | £18,235,696 | £876,878 | £24,734 | £253,918 | £17,584,339 | £1,667,830 | £15,916,509 | £0 | 356 | 30 September 2025 |
| 31 December 2023 | £16,957,296 | £619,573 | £15,232,490 | £1,025,915 | £9,691 | £69,627 | £15,686,606 | £1,692,907 | £13,993,699 | £0 | 356 | 26 September 2024 |
| 31 December 2022 | £11,760,236 | £1,083,919 | £9,576,304 | £731,099 | £0 | £368,914 | £10,228,648 | £841,134 | £9,387,514 | £0 | 356 | 29 September 2023 |
| 31 December 2021 | £9,209,004 | £1,544,485 | £6,442,859 | £1,202,088 | £0 | £19,572 | £8,975,604 | £1,277,872 | £7,697,732 | £0 | 356 | 30 September 2022 |
| 31 December 2020 | £8,691,040 | £1,090,291 | £6,727,833 | £867,985 | £4,128 | £803 | £9,014,187 | £1,046,305 | £7,967,882 | £0 | 356 | 17 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, 1 EA, 1 EARL GREY ST, EDINBURGH, Edinburgh
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.turquoisemountain.org
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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