01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC039722
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- Scotland and other parts of the UK
- Volunteers
- 0 volunteers
- Staff
- 0
- Postcode
- OX5 2SD
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
The Thomas Hughes Foundation is set up primarily to support organisations that help to prevent poverty, advance education and health, citizenship and community development. I does this by mainly by making grants to charities active in these areas. Grants typically take the form of multi-year, unrestricted core funding. The Trustees believe that this type of funding is of particular value to beneficiary charities because it is difficult to obtain that project funding, facilitates long-term planning and reduces fund-raising costs.
Charitable purposes
- the prevention or relief of poverty
- the advancement of education
- the advancement of health
- the advancement of citizenship or community development
- any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes
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 of it to 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 in terms of this Clause the Trustees shall give primary consideration to the wishes of those persons who gift or lend funds to the Trust but this proviso shall impose no binding obligation on the Trustees.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2025 | £75,752 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £107,295 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 5 July 2026 |
| 30 September 2024 | £79,124 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £50,235 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 28 June 2025 |
| 30 September 2023 | £76,500 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £50,468 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 29 June 2024 |
| 30 September 2022 | £74,470 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £120,228 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 30 June 2023 |
| 30 September 2021 | £68,596 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £59,850 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 30 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
- Wooster Arms, The Walk, Islip, Kidlington, Oxfordshire
- Website supplied to OSCR
- Not supplied
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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