OSCR Scottish charity profile

The John Scott Memorial Trust

ActiveCharity number SC044681
Registered21 February 2014
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
SC044681
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
UK and overseas
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
EH3 8RY

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

To provide grants to the Civil Engineering students of the University of Timisoara and supporting educational exchange visits between Scotland and Romania. An annual competition for the John Scott Travelling award is held for the best graduating project in civil/structural engineering. Prizes are given to the top applicants (1 to 3 persons depending on their performance and quality of competing projects). The Trust also helps educational exchange visits between the University of Timisoara and Edinburgh University in the frame of the Erasmus+ existing agreement.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people
  • Older People
  • 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
  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

The purposes of the Trust are, for the benefit of the public in Scotland and Romania, for payment or application of the income and, if the Trustees think fit, the capital of the Trust Fund from time to time in the Trustees' charge for the advancement of education specifically by (a) providing support to students and teaching staff within the Civil Engineering Faculty at the Politehnica University of Timisoara including supporting the development of a library and research, the provision of scholarships and the purchase of equipment all at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Politehnica University of Timisoara. and (b) supporting educational exchange visits between Scotland and Romania .

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£7,611£7,233027 October 2025
31 March 2024£2,976£3,279015 November 2024
31 March 2023£0£3,690020 September 2023
31 March 2022£0£4,018026 July 2022
31 March 2021£0£1,688025 October 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
Morton Fraser MacRoberts LLP, 9 Haymarket Square , 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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