OSCR Scottish charity profile

March Brown Charitable Trust

ActiveCharity number SC037692
Registered29 December 2006
Main locationScottish Borders
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
SC037692
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Scotland and other parts of the UK
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
EH45 8AN

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The Trust exists for general charitable purposes, the Trust funds donations to existing and new charities in which the Trustees have a particular interest based on their knowledge of the Settlor

Charitable purposes

  • the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
  • the advancement of animal welfare

Beneficiaries

  • Other charities or voluntary bodies

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations

Constitutional objectives

The trustees shall hold the trust fund and the income from it it 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 terms of this Clause the trustees shall give primary consideration to charities either new or existing in which the Settlor has expressed a particular interest or to which the Settler has donated in the past, but this proviso shall impose no binding obligation on the Trustees.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
5 April 2025£39,299£41,024018 February 2026
5 April 2024£130,844£129,11705 January 2025
5 April 2023£66,447£72,387015 November 2023
5 April 2022£100,542£90,73507 October 2022
5 April 2021£27,859£56,035030 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
Blackwood & Smith, 39 High Street, Peebles
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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