OSCR Scottish charity profile

Linlithgow Burgh Trust

Known as Linlithgow Civic Trust and Burgh Beautiful Linlithgow

ActiveCharity number SC047211
Registered1 March 2017
Main locationWest Lothian
Legal formSCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC047211
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
A specific local point, community or neighbourhood
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
EH49 7QE

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Linlithgow Burgh Trust incorporates Burgh Beautiful Linlithgow and Linlithgow Civic Trust. Burgh Beautiful Linlithgow aims to enhance the Royal Burgh of Linlithgow’s historic environment through its horticultural, environmental and community activities, encouraging civic pride and making the town more attractive to visitors. The Civic Trust stimulate and advance public interest in, and care for, the beauty, history, character and well-being of Linlithgow and district, as defined by the EH49 postcode district.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
  • the advancement of environmental protection or improvement

Beneficiaries

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

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

The Trusts purposes are to promote, for the public benefit, the advancement of environmental protection and improvement, the advancement of heritage and the arts and the advancement of citizenship and community development, such charitable purposes being realised through the following activities:

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 August 2025£62,533£59,09505 May 2026
31 August 2024£58,591£66,06708 May 2025
31 August 2023£64,094£47,154015 March 2024
31 August 2022£46,930£45,764012 January 2023
31 August 2021£69,281£108,889010 November 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
14 Avalon Gardens, Linlithgow, West Lothian
Website supplied to OSCR
http://www.lbt.scot
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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