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Duncan Trust

SC015311Registered charity from 23 January 1893
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Information about this charity:
Charity Information Operations Annual Submissions Income and Expenditure Charity Trustees
Charity Information:
Address C/O Thorntons Law LLP
Brothockbank House
Arbroath
Postcode DD11 1NE
Website No Link Provided
Regulatory Type Standard
Object:
With regard to the whole Free Residue and Remainder of my said Estate and Effects heritable and moveable and real and personal, above conveyed , and whole prices and proceeds thereof, after implementing and fulfilling the whole previous provisions and purposes, I Direct and Appoint the same to be divided, paid, applied, and disposed of in the following manner, videlicet To pay or assign and convey, in favour of the members of the said Free Church Presbytery of Arbroath, for the time being, to be held by them and their successors in office for behoof of all the congregations presently within the bounds of the said Free Church of Presbytery, that is to say the Free Church Congregation For and towards the better supplementing the stipends of the ministers of the said congregations.
Operations:
What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:
Trustees meet twice a year (November and December) to discuss distributing funds generated by the Trust equally with one half share going to churches/Ministers in Arbroath & Carnoustie and the other half going to students studying in Scotland to become Ministers or Missionaries.
Charity Status: Active
Constitutional Form: Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
Constitutional Form Date: 23 Jan 1893
Main Operating Location: Angus
Number of Staff: 0
Number of Volunteers: 0
Purposes: "the advancement of religion"
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
31 Mar 2022 £109,433 £115,591 21 Dec 2022 Yes
31 Mar 2023 £139,556 £143,795 09 Nov 2023 Yes
31 Mar 2024 £139,391 £137,336 05 Nov 2024 Yes
31 Mar 2025 £157,005 £149,618 12 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
Gordon Smith
Judith Macleod
Annette Gordon
Peter Phillips
Christine Hay
Kirsten Reid
Michael Goss
Joyce Brown
Veronica Mills
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