OSCR Scottish charity profile

D C MacPherson's Charitable Trust

ActiveCharity number SC042316
Registered18 May 2011
Main locationCity of Edinburgh
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
SC042316
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Scotland and other parts of the UK
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
EH3 6AQ

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

This is an anticipatory charity, and is the beneficiary of the late Donald Macpherson's Will therefore funds will be made over to the charitable trust in due course.

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of religion
  • the advancement of health
  • the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
  • the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
  • 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

Subject to Clause (THIRD), the Trustees shall payor apply the income of the Trust Fund and shall have power in their discretion at any time or times to pay or apply the whole or any part or parts of the capital thereof for the following charitable purposes: (a) The prevention or relief of poverty, (b) The advancement of education, (c) The advancement of religion, (d) The advancement of health, (e) The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science, (f) The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill -health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage, (g) any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes declaring that the expression 'charitable purpose' shall mean a charitable purpose under section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 which is also regarded as a charitable purpose in relation to the application of the Taxes Acts.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2026£0£00Not supplied
31 March 2025£0£0021 May 2025
31 March 2024£0£0010 April 2024
31 March 2023£0£0029 June 2023
31 March 2022£0£0031 May 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
Murray Beith Murray LLP, 3 Glenfinlas Street, Edinburgh
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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