OSCR Scottish charity profile

The Astley Ainslie Community Trust

ActiveCharity number SC051602
Registered21 February 2022
Main locationCity of Edinburgh
Legal formSCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC051602
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
EH10 4RH

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

AACT is set up to benefit the community around the Astley Ainslie Hospital site in Edinburgh. Areas in which we aspire to contribute are: community development: health, rehabilitation and well-being: environmental protection or improvement. heritage, culture and history. We run events within the community involving volunteers, consult with NHS Lothian, the City of Edinburgh Council Planning Department, the Scottish Government, with relevant local and national politicians, with potential partner organisations and other supporters. We run funded projects with these ends in mind. Our most recent project, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, was to interview past patients and staff at the Hospital, together with community users of the site, to create a local public exhibition with photographs and sound recordings, to illustrate the history of the site. Content of the exhibition has been archived to provide an accessible public resource in future.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of health
  • 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

4 AACT's purposes are to benefit the community surrounding the Ainslie Ainslie Hospital in south Edinburgh, with a particular focus on the Edinburgh South postcode sectors EH9-1. EH9-2. EH9-3. EH10-4. EH10-5. and EH10-6 ('the Community'), and the wider community, with the following objects: 4.1 To promote the advancement of community development (including the advancement of regeneration) within the Community. 4.2 To advance the provision of health, rehabilitation, and well-being in the Community. 4.3 To advance the provision of educational opportunities in the Community relating to the environment, culture, heritage and history. and 4.4 To advance environmental protection or improvement.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

4 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2026£0£00Not supplied
31 March 2025£19,477£12,900015 December 2025
31 March 2024£8,080£13,262012 December 2024
31 March 2023£38,619£6,429027 December 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
17A, Cluny Place, Edinburgh
Website supplied to OSCR
https://www.aact.scot
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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