OSCR Scottish charity profile

Ritchie Fund

Known as Abernethy Bursary Fund

ActiveCharity number SC037735
Registered17 January 2007
Main locationHighland
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
SC037735
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Scotland and other parts of the UK
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
PH25 3ED

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Over the last 50 years the major emphasis of the charity has been directed to helping provide opportunities for children and families who are deprived, handicapped or otherwise in need of financial support to benefit from residential outdoor adventure experiences all within a healthy Christian environment. During the last year 573 young people have benefitted from financial support enabling them to enjoy these valuable life enhancing experiences.

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

  • Children or young people

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations

Constitutional objectives

The object of the charity shall be to relieve poverty, sickness and distress among children resident in the area of benefit who are deprived, handicapped or otherwise in need to advance education and religion among them and to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for their recreation or other leisure-time occupation with the object of improving the conditions of life for such children.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
30 September 2025£4,958£14,770011 November 2025
30 September 2024£2,360£13,750030 October 2024
30 September 2023£430£7,02502 November 2023
30 September 2022£26,240£61,67502 November 2022
30 September 2021£60,959£48,959010 November 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
Abernethy Trust Ltd, Nethybridge, Inverness-shire
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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