Charity Details

Ceased date: 13 November 2024

Governors Of The Melville College Trust

SC002074Registered charity from 02 September 1976

Notes:

Governors Of The Melville College Trust SC002074 has now wound up and transferred its assets to Melville College Trust, SC053233 which is a SCIO

Charity Information:

Address Lindsays
Caledonian Exchange
19a Canning Street
Edinburgh

Postcode EH3 8HE

Website www.melvillecollegetrust.uk

Regulatory Type Standard

Reason For Removal

Object:

The Melville College Trust Scheme 1976 - Section 26 states: (1) The main purpose of the Trust is to perpetuate the memory of those former pupils of Edinburgh Institution and Melville College who lost their lives in the two World Wars and the governing body shall maintain and upkeep the existing memorials or any substitute memorials to and records of those former pupils. (2)(a) The grants awarded under paragraph 27 shall perpetuate the memory of those former pupils who fell in the First World War; and (b) The grants awarded under paragraph 28 shall perpetuate the memory of the former pupils who fell in the Second World War. Section 29 states: The governing body may make grants in aid of the School, including the boarding houses, playing fields and clubs within the School. Section 30 states (1) The governing body shall award annually the prizes described in Schedule 2. The sums to be expended and the special conditions of a specific prize shall be as stated in columns (3) and (4) respectively opposite to the name of that prize in column (2) of Schedule 2. Such prizes include: W.R. Annan Memorial Prize; Cockburn Prizes, Connell Prize, Alastair Leslie Memorial Prize, John Walker Prizes and Wright Rutherford Awards.

Operations:

What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:

The main purpose of the Trust is to promote the advancement of education through the provision of bursaries and grants to perpetuate the memory of those former pupils of Edinburgh Institution and Melville College who lost their lives in the two World Wars. This is achieved by the upkeep of memorials and by making grants, in the name of the Trust, to Daniel Stewart’s, Melville College and The Mary Erskine School and their scholars.

Charity Status: Removed

Constitutional Form: Statutory corporation (Royal Charter etc)

Constitutional Form Date: 02 Sept 1976

Main Operating Location: City of Edinburgh

Number of Staff: 1

Number of Volunteers: 0

Purposes: "the advancement of education"

Beneficiaries: "Children or young people"

Types Of Activity Undertaken: "It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals", "It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations"

Annual Submissions:

Year End	Income	Expenditure	Annual Return Received	Accounts Received	Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
31 Jul 2021	£186,621	£299,158	04 Apr 2022	Yes
31 Jul 2022	£178,322	£313,919	15 Dec 2022	Yes
31 Jul 2023	£184,260	£312,535	30 Nov 2023	Yes
31 Jul 2024	£163,069	£336,219	15 Oct 2024	Yes	Visit Charity's Website
If an annual return has been received on time (within nine months of the Year End Date), the 'Annual Return Received' box is green . If an annual return is late, the box is red .

Income and Expenditure:

Charity Trustees:

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