OSCR Scottish charity profile

The Findlay Charitable Trust

ActiveCharity number SC042839
Registered4 January 2012
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
SC042839
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Scotland and other parts of the UK
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
TN4 8BS

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The Findlay Charitable Trust has broad charitable objectives and the trustees have decided to focus its grant giving primarily to charities working with disadvantaged young people. Most charities supported tend to be small or medium sized, where the grant awarded can make a material difference to their charitable work.

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of health
  • the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science

Beneficiaries

  • Other charities or voluntary bodies

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations

Constitutional objectives

The Trust Fund shall be held for such charitable purposes as the Trustees in their sole discretion may determine, but I record my wishes, without binding the Trustees, that they should hold the Trust Fund for the benefit of the advancement of health, education, the arts and the prevention and relief of poverty.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
5 April 2025£5,983,945£1,725,36103 December 2025
5 April 2024£11,012,655£2,422,974011 November 2024
5 April 2023£10,638,068£453,05903 October 2023
5 April 2022£39,465£934,57905 December 2022
5 April 2021£18,433£1,521,40108 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
77 Mount Ephraim, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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