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Charity Details

Operations

Every registered charity is given a unique registration number. This begins with the prefix 'SC' and is followed by six numbers.

Charity Number:

SC017943

This is the charity's legal name as set out in its governing document.

Charity Name:

Wight Medical Widows Fund

This is the date on which this charity was granted charitable status.

Registered charity from:

10/06/1991

This shows the latest contact address that OSCR has been given for the charity.

Address:

C/O J & G Collie

1 East Craibstone Street

Bon Accord Square

Aberdeen

This is the latest postcode which the charity has supplied.

Postcode:

AB11 6EL

Current status of the charity.

Charity Status:

Ceased

Whether the charity is a trust, company or unincorporated association.

Constitutional Form:

Trust

The date of the charity's financial year end.

Accounting Period End:

31 July

The charity's gross income in the last financial year.

Gross Income:

�9,565.00

This best describes how local or widespread the work of the charity is.

Geographical Spread:

Scotland and other parts of the UK

The local authority area in which the charity is currently operating.

Main Operating Location:

Aberdeen City

The date this charity's record was last updated by OSCR.
To find out how we collected this information, download a sample annual return form

Last Updated:

21/07/2010

The Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act sets out 15 charitable purposes and one analogous purpose. Charities were asked to identify at least one charitable purpose which applied to their activities.

Purposes:

Relief of Poverty
Advancement of Education
Advancement of Health

This lists which beneficiary groups the charity has identified as being the main focus of its activities:

Children / young people
Older people
People with disabilities or health problems
People of a particular ethnic or racial origin
Other defined groups
No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
Other charities / voluntary bodies

Beneficiaries:

Benefits Children or Young
Benefits Other Defined Groups

This sets out the types of activity undertaken by the charity from the following list:

It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
It carries out activities or services itself
It does none of these

Activities:

Grants to Individuals

Objects:

These are taken directly from the charity's constitution. A charity?s objects describe what the charity has been legally set up to achieve. They do not necessarily describe all of the activities the charity carries out in order to achieve these objects.

TRUST PURPOSES 1 Payment out of each year's income all expenses (capital or income) but on no account shall the capital of the fund be encroached upon for any purpose whatsoever. 2 Two Pounds (�2) Sterling per annum to be set aside from the income of the fund each year for the purpose of keeping his grave in good order and the grave of his grandmother situated in St Nicholas Church Yard. 3 Three Thousand Pounds (�3,000) Sterling to be invested in the Trustees names for the purpose of funding four or more medical bursaries at the University of Aberdeen to be called The Wright Medical Bursary and the Trustees to be the patrons of said bursaries in all time coming. From time to time, as often as vacancies may happen, four or more students with the aftermentioned qualifications are to be nominated and presented to the bursaries and entitled to share the yearly produce of the �3,000 equally among them, and this for four years for each one so long as he continues his studies at Aberdeen University, the patrons have the power to with draw the bursaries at any time from a non-deserving student. Order of preference/qualifications for prospective bursars:- (a) Students who have been born in the City of Aberdeen and who have been previously educated at Aberdeen University; (b) "Town bairns" who are to study medicine without previous University training; (c) Such students as the patrons shall find on competitive examination to be best qualified

Charity Accounts and Constitutions

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a copy of the charity's latest statement of account
a copy of the charity's constitution.

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Details of charity trustees

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