Charity Details

Donald Stewart Memorial Trust

SC022736Registered charity from 09 March 1994

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Charity Information:

Address 1 Coll
Isle of Lewis
Isle of Lewis

Postcode HS2 0JR

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

Website No Link Provided

Regulatory Type Standard

Object:

With a view to encouraging education in the Western Isles, the purposes of the Trust are: (1) To collect and raise funds for the provision of annual award to pupils in the fifth and sixth form of the Secondary Schools in the Western Isles which for the avoidance of doubt shall include for the purposes of the Trust Lewis, Harris, the Uists and Barra. (2) Appoint a panel of judges for judging a literacy competition. (3) Make arrangements for an essay competition to be held annually with awards being made for the best essay chosen by the judges, one award being for the best essay written in English and one for the best essay written in Gaelic with the condition that the essays are to be on a Scottish theme. (4) Provide Trustees with the power to make a special award for outstanding achievement by a young person from or living in the Western Isles for which the Trustees shall be the sole judges for what constitutes outstanding achievement.

Operations:

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

The charity is set up for the encouragement of education in the Western Isles in memory of Donald Stewart who served as a Member of parliament for our constituency. The charity requests nominations from all the secondary schools in the Western Isles for the awards above, which are open to pupils in 5th and 6th year. The nominations are then considered by the trustees and decisions are made on who is the successful nominee.

Charity Status: Active

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

Constitutional Form Date: 09 Mar 1994

Main Operating Location: Western Isles

Number of Staff: 0

Number of Volunteers: 1-50

Purposes: "the advancement of education", "the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science", "the advancement of public participation in sport"

Beneficiaries: "Children or young people"

Types Of Activity Undertaken: "It does none of these"

Annual Submissions:

Year End	Income	Expenditure	Annual Return Received	Accounts Received	Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
31 Dec 2021	£0	£102	01 Nov 2022	Yes
31 Dec 2022	£0	£141	29 Sept 2023	Yes
31 Dec 2023	£0	£250	30 Sept 2024	Yes
31 Dec 2024	£0	£0	30 Sept 2025	Yes	Not published by OSCR
31 Dec 2025			No	Annual Information due by 30 Sept 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
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