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Scotland's Churches Trust

SC043105Registered charity from 23 April 2012
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Charity Information Operations Annual Submissions Income and Expenditure Charity Trustees
Charity Information:
Address 15 North Bank Street
Edinburgh
Postcode EH1 2LP
Website www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk
Regulatory Type Standard
Object:
The organisation is established for charitable purposes only and, in particular, aims to advance the preservation, promotion and understanding of Scotland's rich architectural heritage represented in its churches and places of worship of all denominations. Its purposes are: 4.1 to advance heritage and religion by the preservation and upkeep of churches and other places of worship including churchyards; 4.2 to encourage churches and other places of worship to open to welcome visitors, tourists and pilgrims; 4.3 to advance education and promote understanding of the public about the history, art, architecture and traditions of churches and other places of worship and their position as a focal point in the community; and 4.4 to provide grants or donations to other charitable or religious individuals, bodies or organisations with aims or objects analogous to purposes 4.1-4.3 or, more generally, with the common purpose of maintaining churches and other places of worship.
Operations:
What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:
Scotland’s Churches Trust is an independent built-heritage charity dedicated to protecting, preserving and promoting Scotland’s unique inheritance of religious architecture. We support and advocate on behalf of the congregations and communities who sustain and maintain current and former places of worship, helping to safeguard these historic buildings and the stories, traditions and local identities that they embody. Alongside practical advice on routine maintenance, historical interpretation and community engagement, we also provide a national online directory that signposts tens of thousands of visitors each year to places of worship across Scotland. In recent years, as denominations make difficult decisions about their properties, we have also been assisting communities seeking to take on these closure-threatened buildings, developing as part of this activity an award-winning rapid-recording methodology to document quickly the fragile heritage contained within each site.
Charity Status: Active
Constitutional Form: SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
Constitutional Form Date: 23 Apr 2012
Main Operating Location: City of Edinburgh
Number of Staff: 2
Number of Volunteers: 51-100
Purposes: "the advancement of education", "the advancement of religion", "the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science"
Beneficiaries: "No specific group, or for the benefit of the community", "Other charities or voluntary bodies"
Types Of Activity Undertaken: "It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations", "It carries out activities or services itself"
Annual Submissions:
Year End Income Expenditure Annual Return Received Accounts Received Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
31 Mar 2022 £56,482 £94,244 08 Dec 2022 Yes
31 Mar 2023 £44,928 £41,108 14 Nov 2023 Yes
31 Mar 2024 £34,880 £76,830 21 Nov 2024 Yes
31 Mar 2025 £39,143 £84,689 20 Nov 2025 Yes Visit Charity's Website
31 Mar 2026 No Annual Information due by 31 Dec 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
Caroline Sibbald
Jeff Sanders
James Erskine
Russell Duncan
Rosalind Taylor
Elizabeth Roads
Adam Cumming
Andrew Forbes
Elizabeth Swarbrick
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