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Borders Health Board General Practitioners Benevolent Fund

SC017117Registered charity from 10 May 1975
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Information about this charity:
Charity Information Operations Annual Submissions Income and Expenditure Charity Trustees
Charity Information:
The Name the Charity is Known By Borders Benevolent Fund
Address St Ronan's Health Centre
Buchan Place
Innerleithen
Scottish Borders
Postcode EH44 6QU
Website No Link Provided
Regulatory Type Standard
Object:
The purposes of the Benevolent Fund are the following:- 1.To make grants in the deserving cases to necessitous men or women engaged in the practice of medicine in the area of the Borders Health Board of to their own widow or dependants. 2.To pay the expenses of administration of the trust hereby created.
Operations:
What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:
The fund exists to assist necessitous Borders GPs and their families. Applications for support from the fund can be made by GPs themselves, their colleagues or practice managers with consent of the GP in need. All such requests are carefully considered by the fund trustees and assessed on an individual basis.
Charity Status: Active
Constitutional Form: Unincorporated association
Constitutional Form Date: 10 May 1975
Main Operating Location: Scottish Borders
Number of Staff: 0
Number of Volunteers: 0
Purposes: "the prevention or relief of poverty", "the advancement of education", "the advancement of health", "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"
Annual Submissions:
Year End Income Expenditure Annual Return Received Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
28 Feb 2022 £4,927 £1,038 23 Nov 2022
28 Feb 2023 £5,521 £11,016 27 Oct 2023
28 Feb 2024 £5,673 £11,022 29 Oct 2024
28 Feb 2025 £5,937 £1,073 13 Nov 2025 Not published by OSCR
28 Feb 2026 No
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
Shona Beveridge
Claire McLean
Robert Duncan
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