OSCR Scottish charity profile

The McGowan Family Charitable Trust

ActiveCharity number SC043280
Registered9 July 2012
Main locationSouth Lanarkshire
Legal formUnincorporated association

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC043280
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
UK and overseas
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
ML10 6AG

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The charity hopes to buy land adjacent to Strathaven Park to extend the park for the benefit of the public. Discussions have taken place with the landowner.

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of religion
  • the advancement of health
  • the saving of lives
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
  • the advancement of public participation in sport
  • the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended
  • the advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation
  • the promotion of religious or racial harmony
  • the promotion of equality and diversity
  • the advancement of environmental protection or improvement
  • the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
  • the advancement of animal welfare

Beneficiaries

  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
  • Other charities or voluntary bodies

Activities

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

Constitutional objectives

The purposes of the Trust are:- (1) To provide or assist in the provision of facilities for recreation, sport, culture, social or other leisure time occupations for the general public to benefit the community within the Strathaven area and surrounding areas of South Lanarkshire. (2) To apply or pay the whole or such part of the free income and the whole or such part of the capital of the Trust Fund for such charitable purposes as are within the meaning assigned to the term 'charitable purposes' within the context of the Charities and Trustees Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 Section 7(2) as amended from time to time or any subsequent re-enactment thereof or to any charitable institutions, societies, foundations or funds as the Trustees in their sole discretion may from time to time consider desirable.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2026£0£00Not supplied
31 March 2025£2,374£120015 January 2026
31 March 2024£2,031£120020 December 2024
31 March 2023£1,721£120019 December 2023
31 March 2022£196£120027 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
Gebbie & Wilson Solicitor, 18 Common Green, Strathaven
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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