OSCR Scottish charity profile

James Caldwell Bequest

ActiveCharity number SC041067
Registered27 November 2009
Main locationGlasgow City
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
SC041067
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
More than one local authority area in Scotland
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
G1 2AD

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The purpose of these funds is (i) to provide grants to members, or those who would be eligible to be members, of the Royal Faculty (past or present) and the spouses/civil partners/dependants of such members/potential members, whom the Council consider to be in need of assistance and (ii) to advance the education of individuals in studying or researching Scots law or in qualifying or training as lawyers in Scotland. The committee meets at least twice a year to decide whether to continue with existing grants and also whether to award grants to new applicants.

Charitable purposes

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

Beneficiaries

  • Other defined groups

Activities

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

Constitutional objectives

1. The Trustees shall pay or apply the income of the Trust Property for the following purposes and may pay or apply any of the capital of the Trust Property as they may from time to time determine for the following purposes: (a) making grants to (i) such persons as are or shall have been Members of the Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow for such period of time as the Trustees shall from time to time consider in all the circumstances to be appropriate and who the Trustees consider to be in need of assistance. and (ii) such persons as are or shall have been the spouses or dependants of persons falling within (i) above and who the Trustees consider to be in need of assistance, declaring that the foregoing purposes shall apply not only in relation to such persons as are or shall have been Members of the Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow but also to those who are or would have been eligible to be such a Member. For the avoidance of doubt, the Trustees shall be the sole judges as to whether a person is in need of assistance. (b) to advance the education of individuals in studying or researching Scots law or in qualifying or training as lawyers in Scotland.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 December 2025£32,026£53,925015 July 2026
31 December 2024£33,548£41,70809 September 2025
31 December 2023£33,636£37,812027 September 2024
31 December 2022£37,187£39,88709 August 2023
31 December 2021£38,412£38,875013 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
Mitchells Roberton, George House, 36 North Hanover Street, Glasgow
Website supplied to OSCR
www.rfpg.org
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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