01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC048462
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- A specific local point, community or neighbourhood
- Volunteers
- 0 volunteers
- Staff
- 2
- Postcode
- EH39 5PX
OSCR note: This charity was established to replace North Berwick Trust (SC000135). North Berwick Trust (SC000135) has now wound up and passed its assets and liabilities to The North Berwick Trust Ltd (SC048462) which is a Charitable Company.
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
The Trust uses its resources to help improve the quality of life of the residents of North Berwick. A North Berwick Forever Fund is available to benefit the community in the long term, through offering an annual grant giving programme. This grant giving programme supports individuals and organisations in need who reside or operate within the North Berwick Community Council area. Grant giving themes include. 1) supporting and enhancing recreational cultural and sporting activities and facilities, 2) supporting and enhancing educational and lifelong learning opportunities, 3) conserving and enhancing the historic and built environment of NB. North Berwick Trust also offers an annual Young Person’s Scholarship scheme and a programme to provide funding support for large scale development projects in North Berwick. In addition to its grant programmes, North Berwick Trust is also proudly developing and maintaining 20 hectares of land in the town, for the benefit of the community.
Charitable purposes
- the advancement of education
- the advancement of citizenship or community development
- 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 relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Beneficiaries
- No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
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
This article shall be interpreted as if it incorporated an over-riding qualification to the effect that, in any case in which an activity permitted under this article is in its nature capable of being carried on for a purpose which is not a charitable purpose, the powers of the company shall be deemed to be limited to the carrying on of such activity in such manner as will not prejudice the charitable status of the company. Subject to that over-riding qualification, the company?s objects are to benefit the residents of North Berwick as the directors in their absolute and uncontrolled discretion think fit and without prejudice to the foregoing generality: (a) to provide, maintain, service and staff facilities for public recreation in North Berwick. (b) to provide assistance of any kind for the education of residents of North Berwick and their dependants. (c) to provide, maintain, service, plant, cultivate and manage public amenity grounds and gardens within North Berwick and all necessary or desirable ancillary roads, sewers and other services. and (d) the relief of need and suffering of any kind among residents of North Berwick and their dependants
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Total income | Donations | Charitable activities income | Trading income | Investment income | Other income | Total expenditure | Raising funds | Charitable activities spending | Other spending | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2025 | £394,605 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £852,340 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 2 | 3 November 2025 |
| 31 March 2024 | £392,574 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £470,771 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 2 | 15 November 2024 |
| 31 March 2023 | £328,080 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £328,080 | £0 | £452,016 | £40,015 | £412,001 | £0 | 2 | 5 December 2023 |
| 31 March 2022 | £290,273 | £9,000 | £0 | £0 | £240,333 | £40,940 | £476,355 | £43,037 | £433,318 | £0 | 2 | 22 November 2022 |
| 31 March 2021 | £362,418 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £362,418 | £0 | £450,293 | £72,548 | £377,745 | £0 | 2 | 11 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
- The Lighthouse, Heugh Road Industrial Estate, North Berwick, East Lothian
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.northberwicktrust.co.uk
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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