OSCR Scottish charity profile

Discovery Rugby Charitable Trust

ActiveCharity number SC050730
Registered29 January 2021
Main locationDundee City
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
SC050730
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Wider, but within one local authority area
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
DD5 1AE
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OSCR note: Previous legal name of charity was Dundee Rugby Charitable Trust from 03/08/20 until 11/06/21

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

To advance public participation in the sport of rugby, primarily in the area of Dundee and its environs. to provide, develop, manage and promote recreational facilities and related recreational activities, principally for rugby purposes. and to advance education (including developing personal, social, team working and community skills) through rugby by the giving of awards, grants or loans

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of public participation in sport
  • 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

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Activities

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

Constitutional objectives

2.1 The Trustees shall hold the Trust Fund for charitable purposes exclusively. The specific charitable purposes for which the Trust Fund, capital or income, may be applied (in sums of such amount as the Trustees in their absolute discretion may decide from time to time and at any time) are in any one or more or all of the following ways, namely: 2.1.1 to advance public participation in the sport of Rugby Union Football and similar or related sports ('rugby'), primarily in the area of Dundee and its environs, to improve the fitness, health and wellbeing of a wide range of participants. 2.1.2 to provide, develop, manage and promote recreational facilities and related recreational activities, principally for rugby purposes or activities, to be available to the public generally, primarily in the area of Dundee and its environs, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended. and 2.1.3 to advance education (including developing personal, social, team working and community skills) through the vehicle of rugby, including the provision of coaching and training, principally either for, or by using, rugby purposes and/or activities, including via life­long learning in relation to sport, fitness, first aid, dietary and related skills, to broaden the development of individual capabilities of children, youths, young adults and adults. 2.2 The Trust may promote or advance any of the purposes or objects in 2.1 above by the giving of awards, grants or loans or the provision of credit or other forms of assistance, financial or otherwise, to persons, institutions, companies, associations, clubs or the like undertaking projects, initiatives and/or activities which further any of the above purposes or objects, provided always such support is a charitable purpose.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
30 April 2026£0£00Not supplied
30 April 2025£2,000£5,162010 October 2025
30 April 2024£7,414£438019 November 2024
30 April 2023£10,000£12607 November 2023
30 April 2022£6,001£0019 January 2023

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
16 Bader Square, Broughty Ferry, Dundee
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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