OSCR Scottish charity profile

Rare Breeds Survival Trust

Known as RBST

ActiveCharity number SC053451
Registered20 June 2024
Main locationOutwith Scotland
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC053451
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Cross Border
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Scotland and other parts of the UK
Volunteers
Not supplied
Staff
7
Postcode
CV8 2LG

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of environmental protection or improvement

Beneficiaries

  • Other defined groups

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

The objects for which the Trust is established and which shall be for charitable purposes only are to do all or any of the following things for the purpose of attaining the objects if and so far as allowed by law and observing and performing whatever may be required by law in order legally to carry out the objects. 3.1 For the benefit of the public to ensure the preservation of breeds and breeding groups of domestic livestock of importance in the promotion of agriculture being breeds at risk, and having characteristics worthy of preservation in the interest of zoological research and education to ensure the preservation of genes of special or potential value in hybridisation and other work. 3.2 To conduct carry out and promote research (including the sponsoring thereof) into the foregoing matters which constitute the objects of the Trust and into related matters directed to increasing the sum of communicable knowledge thereof and to publish the results of any such research.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

2 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 December 2025£0£07Not supplied
31 December 2024£933,509£687,737723 October 2025

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
RBST, Stoneleigh Park, Kenilworth, Warwickshire
Website supplied to OSCR
https://www.rbst.org.uk/
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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