OSCR Scottish charity profile

Mountain Rescue Benevolent Fund (Glencoe)

ActiveCharity number SC052438
Registered27 March 2023
Main locationHighland
Legal formSCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC052438
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Wider, but within one local authority area
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
PA38 4DA

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

To provide financial assistance to relieve poverty and / or preserve the good health and general well-being of a person who may be deemed by the Trustees to be in need of financial assistance due to injury, disability or death as a result of attending a rescue call out or other mountain rescue activity, including rescue training or travelling to or from the location of a rescue call out

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Beneficiaries

  • Other defined groups

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals

Constitutional objectives

The Objects of the Charity are restricted to charitable purposes only and, in particular, to provide financial assistance at the sole and absolute discretion of the Trustees to relieve poverty and/or to preserve the good health and general well-being of a person who may be deemed by the Trustees to be in need of financial assistance, due to injury, disability or death as a result of attending a rescue call out or other mountain rescue activity, including (without prejudice to the foregoing generality) rescue training or travelling to or from the location of a rescue call out, as follows:- (i) To past or present full and/or aspirant members of Glencoe Mountain Rescue, a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SC047712), having their Registered Office at Glencoe Mountain Rescue Centre, Glencoe, PH49 4HP (hereinafter referred to as ?GMR?). (ii) To persons who may from time to time assist on mountain rescue call outs at the request of a Rescue Team referred to in paragraphs (i) or (ii) above. (iii) To the immediate family or dependants of the aforementioned persons or such other person or persons who are considered to be in need of such assistance.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

3 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
30 September 2025£210£6008 February 2026
30 September 2024£150£6003 February 2025
30 September 2023£10,211£15022 May 2024

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 Glencoe Mountain Rescue, Glencoe, Argyll
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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