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Chesney Trust for Education in Malawi

SC037540Registered charity from 17 October 2006

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Charity Information:

The Name the Charity is Known By Chesney Trust

Address Dunmore Cottage
44 Dunmore Street
Balfron

Postcode G63 0TX

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Website www.chesneytrust.org

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Object:

The objects of The Chesney Trust are:- a) To advance education of girls in Northern Malawi by means of funding a project to build a secondary school, including a department for girls with hearing impairment and by the funding of bursaries; b) To provide health facilities, including antenatal care and improve the infrastructure (roads, water, electricity, employment opportunities) of the surrounding area for the benefit of the local community.

Operations:

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

Educational opportunities for girls in Malawi, in particular at secondary level, are very limited. The Chesney Trust was set up in 2006 specifically to work with the local community in Engcongolweni, in the north of Malawi, to build and help run a girls' secondary boarding school, and to provide bursaries for those whose parents/carers cannot pay the school fees. Thanks to donations from the Erskine Stewarts Melville Schools in Edinburgh, grants from funding bodies and donations from many individuals, the Trust was able to fund the construction of two double classroom blocks and a hostel, and the provision of water from a borehole which allowed the school (known as the Edinburgh Girls' High School) to be opened in 2012. Subsequent funded construction of additional hostels and other school buildings has allowed the school roll to increase to 265. We will continue to work with the Chesney Trust (Malawi) Board, based in Mzuzu and the head teacher to further develop the school.

Charity Status: Active

Constitutional Form: Unincorporated association

Constitutional Form Date: 17 Oct 2006

Main Operating Location: Stirling

Number of Staff: 0

Number of Volunteers: 0

Purposes: "the advancement of education", "the advancement of health"

Beneficiaries: "Children or young people"

Types Of Activity Undertaken: "It carries out activities or services itself"

Annual Submissions:

Year End	Income	Expenditure	Annual Return Received	Accounts Received	Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
31 Jul 2021	£47,373	£39,229	31 Jan 2022	Yes
31 Jul 2022	£24,991	£33,126	17 Mar 2023	Yes
31 Jul 2023	£55,936	£60,603	11 Dec 2023	Yes
31 Jul 2024	£35,317	£30,357	04 Dec 2024	Yes
31 Jul 2025	£23,502	£32,869	14 Dec 2025	Yes	Not published by OSCR
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
Anne	Corrigan
Sophieanne	Wastling
Patrick	Wastling
Alison	Lydon
John	Dymond
Peter	Nelson
Duncan	Macdonald
Rosemary	Geddes
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