OSCR Scottish charity profile

The Gordon Duncan Memorial Trust

ActiveCharity number SC038339
Registered20 June 2007
Main locationPerth And Kinross
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
SC038339
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Operations cover all or most of Scotland
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
PH13 9PP

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The GDMT is set up to make sponsorship awards to groups or individuals who apply for some assistance for education and teaching of playing Scottish Traditional music and to encourage the best musicians of this type of music by sponsoring top players in invitational contests. So from beginners to the top players we assist. We also encourage composition of Scottish Traditional music tunes and making these tunes available to others. This is mostly music for the Great Highland Bagpipe but also includes fiddlers and other musicians playing our wonderful music.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people

Activities

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

Constitutional objectives

(a) the advancement of education of residents of Scotland under the age of thirty years by encouraging participation in and the study of all forms of traditional music and in particular the music of the Great Highland Bagpipe. (b) the advancement of the arts and( culture of Scotland by promoting the performance, study and composition of all forms of traditional music and in particular the music of the Great Highland Bagpipe: (c) to encourage the attainment of high standards of performance and innovative composition in relation to all forms of traditional music and in particular the music of the Great Highland Bagpipe.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 December 2025£27,334£32,3100Not supplied
31 December 2024£27,334£32,310026 March 2025
31 December 2023£23,817£16,380030 March 2024
31 December 2022£21,420£14,082015 March 2023
31 December 2021£21,864£11,846022 March 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
The Millstead, Burrelton, Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Perthshire
Website supplied to OSCR
www.gordonduncan.co.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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