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Mining Institute Of Scotland Trust

SC024974Registered charity from 15 July 1996
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Information about this charity:
Charity Information Operations Annual Submissions Income and Expenditure Charity Trustees
Charity Information:
Address 1 Almond Crescent
Comrie
Crieff
Perthshire
Postcode PH6 2PA
Website No Link Provided
Regulatory Type Standard
Object:
The trustees shall pay, apply or make over the whole free annual income of the Benevolent Fund, or such part thereof as they shall in their own absolute discretion think fit, to for or among or for the benefit of anyone or more of (1) former members of the Mining Institute of Scotland or (2) members or former members of the Institution of Mining Engineers for the time being resident in Scotland or who have worked in connection with mining matters for at least five consecutive years in Scotland or (3) any spouse, widow, widower, parent, child or former dependant of any such person of either category as are by reason of poverty, indigence , illness, disability or age in need of relief or support, but that for the purpose of such relief or support and not otherwise; in the event that the Trustees having given full and proper consideration to making payment to potential beneficiaries meeting the foregoing criteria in this paragraph but there remains all or part of the whole free annual income of the Benevolent Fund then the Trustees shall in their own absolute discretion if they think fit, make payment of all or any part of such remaining free annual income of the Benevolent Fund to The Members Benevolent Trust of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (English registered charity no. 20718) for the Trustees of that Trust to make payment in their discretion as they consider to be appropriate to beneficiaries albeit such beneficiaries are resident in England and Wales
Operations:
What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:
The charity is set up to receive applications for both educational and benevolence funding as per the founding Trust deed. Such applications are considered on their merits and are funded by income from investments. The Trustees meet three times in every calendar year.
Charity Status: Active
Constitutional Form: Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
Constitutional Form Date: 15 Jul 1996
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"
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
31 Dec 2021 £25,056 £50,545 12 Aug 2022 Yes
31 Dec 2022 £27,777 £52,844 30 Aug 2023 Yes
31 Dec 2023 £24,486 £65,508 12 Aug 2024 Yes
31 Dec 2024 £22,146 £51,093 04 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
Mark Friel
William Petrie
Steve Bedford
Martin Downing
Martin Dorchester
Bob Laird
Ian Purdie
Andy Gardiner
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