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A R & K M MacLaren Trust

SC022496Registered charity from 31 October 1990
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Information about this charity:
Charity Information Operations Annual Submissions Income and Expenditure Charity Trustees
Charity Information:
Address 16 Heriot Row
Edinburgh
Postcode EH3 6HR
Website No Link Provided
Regulatory Type Standard
Object:
The object of The Trust which is to be in accordance with the wishes of the said Alan Robert MacLaren is to provide charitable assistance to Members of the Society in needy circumstances and to support educational projects connected with The Society and the history of The Clan in particular but without prejudice to the foregoing generality (1) To provide help or comforts to Members of The Society in cases of sickness or illness. (2) To assist in providing holidays in Balquhidder for Members of The Society convalescing after illness either by the provision of accommodation or by financial grant. (3) To provide financial assistance or the provision of accommodation to Undergraduate or Postgraduate Members of the Society to assist their education/ education generally and in particular to aid research and educational projects connected with The Clan MacLaren, such activities and projects to be centred where possible in the Clan's Ancestral Home in Balquhidder Strathearn. (4) To provide financial assistance for the restoration or upkeep and maintenance of the ruined Church of Balquhidder with the aim of ultimately restoring it as a place of public worship.
Operations:
What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:
Applications are considered on an annual basis for bursary awards and continue until the applicant completes their course. The first year is an award of £500 with awards of £250 for the subsequent years. Costs are also met in connection with the upkeep and maintenance of the ruined Church of Balquhidder
Charity Status: Active
Constitutional Form: Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
Constitutional Form Date: 31 Oct 1990
Main Operating Location: City of Edinburgh
Number of Staff: 0
Number of Volunteers: 0
Purposes: "the prevention or relief of poverty", "the advancement of education", "the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science", "any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes"
Beneficiaries: "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"
Annual Submissions:
Year End Income Expenditure Annual Return Received Accounts Received Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
05 Apr 2022 £39,501 £41,996 08 Nov 2022 Yes
05 Apr 2023 £92,969 £92,562 10 Aug 2023 Yes
05 Apr 2024 £19,427 £11,231 10 Oct 2024 Yes
05 Apr 2025 £39,395 £47,228 13 Nov 2025 Yes Download
05 Apr 2026 No Annual Information due by 05 Jan 2027
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
Malcolm MacLaren
Florian MacLaren
William McLaren
George Borthwick
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