OSCR Scottish charity profile

The Aird Foundation

ActiveCharity number SC040072
Registered27 November 2008
Main locationRenfrewshire
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
SC040072
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
UK and overseas
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
PA13 4TE

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The charity is set up to provide financial support to people in need of help and social care. It also supports animal welfare, community development and global Emergency Disaster Funds.

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of health
  • the saving of lives

Beneficiaries

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

Activities

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

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£55,995£21,359027 January 2026
31 March 2024£16,536£31,835021 February 2025
5 April 2023£16,558£21,95305 January 2024
5 April 2022£25,085£21,73204 January 2023
5 April 2021£27,445£174,355022 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
Killochries Fold, Killochries
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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