OSCR Scottish charity profile

The Admiral Duncan Camperdown Trust

ActiveCharity number SC042640
Registered7 October 2011
Main locationFife
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
SC042640
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Wider, but within one local authority area
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
DD6 8RN

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

We encourage 'education about the heritage and history of the City of Dundee, Admiral Adam Duncan, late Viscount Duncan of Camperdown the celebrated Naval Officer of the wars of the French Revolution. This was initially done by issuing School Packs and is now down by lecturing, meeting groups and generally spreading the word around about Dundee's most famous son.

Charitable purposes

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

Beneficiaries

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

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

(a) To encourage education and in particular education about the heritage and history of the City of Dundee, and Admiral Adam Duncan, late Viscount Duncan of Camperdown, the celebrated Naval Officer of the Wars of the French Revolution, and to that end, to preserve both heritable and moveable property associated with Admiral Duncan, the City of Dundee, and with Naval History generally. (b) To or for the benefit of such one or more Charitable Institution or Charitable Institutions which have the advancement of education, or the advancement of citizenship or community development, or the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science as one of their charitable purposes, or which have a charitable purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to these specific charitable purposes, as the Trustees in their uncontrolled discretion may from time to time select. or (c) In implementing or assisting to implement any charitable purpose or charitable purposes relating to the advancement of education, or the advancement of citizenship or community development, or the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or sciences, or which may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of these specific charitable purposes, which the Trustees in their uncontrolled discretion may from time to time by Minute resolve upon.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 December 2025£0£00Not supplied
31 December 2024£499£625025 September 2025
31 December 2023£534£41604 September 2024
31 December 2022£509£253031 August 2023
31 December 2021£616£198020 September 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
Naughton House, Naughton Estate, Wormit, Fife
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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