OSCR Scottish charity profile

Acorns2Trees SCIO

ActiveCharity number SC050580
Registered18 November 2020
Main locationCity of Edinburgh
Legal formSCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC050580
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
More than one local authority area in Scotland
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
1
Postcode
EH3 8BP

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Acorns2Trees is a philanthropic charitable trust set up and funded by William and Fiona Gordon. Acorns2Trees has 2 main areas of interest - (1) encouraging and supporting community enterprise and (2) the integration of adults with learning disabilities, and in particular economic integration - and the vast majority of our investments focus on progressing these twin objectives. Acorns2Trees does not have an open application process, but rather seeks to establish and build relationships with key organisations operating within these fields of activity.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
  • any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes

Beneficiaries

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

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations

Constitutional objectives

7.1 The SCIO will promote, advance and further its Charitable purposes in Clause 7.3 by operating as a 'grant giving' charity which will support financially and otherwise charities and others established to:- 7.1.1 support the mobilisation and integration of children and adults with additional support needs into daily living in the community and assist in their development. 7.1.2 support the education and development in any way whatsoever of children and adults with additional support needs in the community. and 7.1.3 provide training and employment opportunities to children and adults with additional support needs. 7.2 The primary focus is set out clause 7.1. However, the Trustees may use their discretion from time to time to distribute grants in furtherance of the wider charitable purposes set out in clause 7.3 below. 7.3 For the purposes of the 2005 Act the following charitable purposes are (i) particularly relevant and (ii) are the charitable purposes identified as applicable from section 7 of the 2005 Act:- 7.3.1 the advancement of education. 7.3.2 the advancement of citizenship or community development. 7.3.3 the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage. 7.3.4 the relief of unemployment. and 7.3.5 any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2026£0£01Not supplied
31 March 2025£625,658£1,436,642112 January 2026
31 March 2024£142,628£168,943127 December 2024
31 March 2023£1,062,500£1,325,488129 December 2023
31 March 2022£1,563,038£987,690129 December 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
c/o Brodies LLP , Capital Square, 58 Morrison Street, Edinburgh
Website supplied to OSCR
www.acorns2trees.com
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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