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The Gordon Highlanders Museum and Regimental Trust Fund

SC007311Registered charity from 12 November 1965
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Information about this charity:
Charity Information Operations Annual Submissions Income and Expenditure Charity Trustees
Notes:
Previous name - Regimental Trust Fund of The Gordon Highlanders for The Regimental HQ Fund From 12/11/1965 to 04/05/2020
Charity Information:
Address The Gordon Highlanders Museum
Viewfield Road
Aberdeen
Postcode AB15 7XH
Website No Link Provided
Regulatory Type Standard
Object:
The prevention and relief of poverty. The advancement of education. The advancement of, arts, heritage, culture, or science. The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage. Any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the other preceding purposes.
Operations:
What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:
The principal activity of the Trust is the Museum telling and preserving the history of the Gordon Highlanders. The Museum has also made a determined effort to support the intangible cultural heritage of the North East and Scotland with its development as a very successful venue for Highland bagpipe recitals and displays on the Highland roots of the regiment. The Trust also ensures the delivery of welfare support to ex-Gordon Highlanders and their dependants, working alongside our sister charity (The Gordon Highlanders Association) to ensure that local Gordon Highlander Association groups are helped as required. The Trust also supports the 4th Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland with important loans of silver, paintings and property so that it, as the successor unit to The Gordon Highlanders, has items appropriate to its history.
Charity Status: Active
Constitutional Form: Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
Constitutional Form Date: 12 Nov 1965
Main Operating Location: Aberdeen
Number of Staff: 6
Number of Volunteers: 51-100
Purposes: "the prevention or relief of poverty", "the advancement of education", "the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science", "the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage", "any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes"
Beneficiaries: "Children or young people", "Older People", "People with disabilities or health problems", "Other defined groups"
Types Of Activity Undertaken: "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"
Annual Submissions:
Year End Income Expenditure Annual Return Received Accounts Received Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
31 Mar 2022 £521,156 £614,824 19 Dec 2022 Yes
31 Mar 2023 £402,493 £575,293 16 Nov 2023 Yes
31 Mar 2024 £117,950 £348,689 19 Dec 2024 Yes
31 Mar 2025 £186,245 £308,181 29 Dec 2025 Yes Download
31 Mar 2026 No Annual Information due by 31 Dec 2026
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
Stuart Samson
Joseph Mackie
Allan Porter
Jonathon Tink
Kieron Potts
William Rattray
Michael Macaulay
Roger Connon
Malcolm Rust
David Tait
Charles Sloan
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