OSCR Scottish charity profile

The Martin Chambers Ecuador Trust

ActiveCharity number SC037458
Registered7 September 2006
Main locationGlasgow City
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
SC037458
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Overseas only
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
G75 8XE

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

We run annual fundraising events, operate a 200 Club and collect donations.

Charitable purposes

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

Beneficiaries

  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Activities

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

Constitutional objectives

(a) To relieve persons in Ecuador who are in conditions of financial hardship (particularly but not exclusively children and their families) or who are aged or sick by making grants of money or providing access to food, shelter, goods or services. (b) To advance education in Ecuador by such means as the Trustees may consider appropriate including the provision of education, materials and facilities or the funding of new enlarged or improved educational establishments, or the provision of financial or other assistance and support to persons in Ecuador in the establishment and operation of any educational establishment or establishments in Ecuador. To advance the Roman Catholic religion In Ecuador for the benefit of the public.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
30 September 2025£73,896£50,851022 March 2026
30 September 2024£60,724£23,345028 June 2025
30 September 2023£46,865£37,817021 December 2024
30 September 2022£34,293£40,955023 May 2023
30 September 2021£33,282£63,699014 June 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
21 Forth Court, Mossneuk, East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire
Website supplied to OSCR
http://www.ecuadortrust.org.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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