OSCR Scottish charity profile

Asia Scotland Trust Ltd

Not SubmittedCharity number SC045273
Registered5 December 2014
Main locationCity of Edinburgh
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC045273
Status
Not Submitted
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Overseas only
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
EH7 5HS

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Our objects are: • Nurture the long-standing links between Scotland and Asia and build a shared future. • Engage with creative projects that produce a social, environmental and economic impact, create jobs and enable people to improve their quality of life. • Respect the guiding principles of sustainability, reciprocity and the pursuit of mutual goals that generate lasting benefit. These objects are pursued through the following activities: • Define and create interest in the surviving environmental and built heritage of Scotland in Asia. • Devise ways of making historic sites and buildings relevant in the 21st century to local communities. • Facilitate contacts and sharing of ideas in each country with wider potential spin-off. • Make publicly available documentation and knowledge to encourage future partnerships and pooling of ideas. • Foster and participate in thematic survey initiatives to encourage better understanding of the local and national heritage. • Research

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
  • Other charities or voluntary bodies

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

The charity's objects (?Objects') are: (1) to promote, encourage and support heritage conservation projects and initiatives in South and South East Asia in partnership with local organisations. (2) to support the transfer of knowledge, experience and skill in connection with such projects. and (3) to support education and training for skilled workers, craftsmen and women, with a view to increased recognition and status for the skilled trades in South & South East Asia.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
30 November 2024£0£00Not supplied
30 November 2023£0£1,236027 September 2024
30 November 2022£0£1,014027 September 2024
30 November 2021£10,000£6,617017 October 2022
30 November 2020£0£10,355031 August 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
c/o Simpson and Brown, The Old Printworks, 77a Brunswick 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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