Charity Details

Ceased date: 23 February 2026

Eric Birse Charitable Trust

SC004032Registered charity from 10 April 1984

Notes:

The charity has wound up

Charity Information:

Address 24/9 Ferryfield
Edinburgh

Postcode EH5 2PR

Is the supplied address a principal office or a trustee address? Trustee - Charity Trustee

Website No Link Provided

Regulatory Type Standard

Reason For Removal

Object:

The purpose of the Trust are as follows and shall be carried out by means recognised by law as charitable and not otherwise: - To fund or assist the enhancement of the education of a postgraduate or post-doctoral researcher within the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh in so far as charitable and within the scope of Engineering. The University shall select the recipient and forward the name and a note of the proposed studies or research or project or use of the funds to the Trustees for consideration, approval and acceptance thereof by the Trustees. The University should take into account the wishes of the Birse family with regard to the potential sponsorship of certain areas of Engineering which in all conscience they are unwilling to support, but subject to such limitation the University is free to select from an unlimited field; the acceptance of any postgraduate or post-doctoral researcher selected by the University as an appropriate beneficiary of this trust purpose is expressly hereby declared to be a matter wholly within the unfettered discretion of the Trustees and the Trustees shall at no time be obliged to accept any such selection by the University which they in their sole discretion disapprove and without any need on their part to give any reason therefor

Operations:

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

To fund or assist the enhancement of the education of a postgraduate or post-doctoral researcher within the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh in so far as charitable and within the scope of Engineering. The funding and assistance will be provided via the Eric Birse Studentship. The University of Edinburgh will select the recipient.

Charity Status: Removed

Constitutional Form: Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)

Constitutional Form Date: 10 Apr 1984

Main Operating Location: Midlothian

Number of Staff: 0

Number of Volunteers: 0

Purposes: "the advancement of education", "the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science"

Beneficiaries: "Other defined groups"

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

Annual Submissions:

Year End	Income	Expenditure	Annual Return Received	Accounts Received	Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
05 Apr 2021	£28,513	£24,524	11 Nov 2021	Yes
05 Apr 2022	£40,475	£17,831	11 Nov 2022	Yes
05 Apr 2023	£13,605	£16,188	09 Aug 2023	Yes
05 Apr 2024	£26,579	£5,060	11 Sept 2024	Yes
05 Apr 2025	£31,071	£60	18 Aug 2025	Yes	Download
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:

First Name	Last Name
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Last Name

No charity trustee information available

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