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The Di Paola Trust

SC046844Registered charity from 13 September 2016
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Charity Information Operations Annual Submissions Income and Expenditure Charity Trustees
Charity Information:
Address 6 Carolside Avenue, Clarkston
Postcode G76 7AE
Is the supplied address a principal office or a trustee address? Trustee - Charity Trustee
Website No Link Provided
Regulatory Type Standard
Object:
1. The Trustees shall hold and apply the sum of £1 paid by us to them, and such other funds and assets as may from time to time be comprised in the Trust Property, in trust for the following purposes:- (a) The advancement of education (primary, secondary and tertiary) by financing the education of children in Zimbabwe or elsewhere, principally but not exclusively those who are orphaned because their parents died of AIDS (b) The prevention or relief of poverty by financing aid programmes involving adults or children in Zimbabwe or elsewhere brought to the notice of the Trustees by the Jesuit priest(s) or other officials of the Catholic Church administering the Trust's disbursed funds.
Operations:
What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:
Financial assistance for the educational needs of underprivileged children in Zimbabwe, Kenya and Colombia, support of a medical dispensary in Kitale (Kenya) and ad hoc donations meeting the Di Paola Trust's criteria. All donations are targeted to specific Catholic institutions such as the Jesuit Development Office in Zimbabwe, St Stephen's School (Turkana, Kenya) and Dispensary (Kitale) both administered by the Nazareth Sisters of the Annunciation, and Let the Children Live in Colombia set up by Fr Peter Walters. Ad hoc donations are made (subject to reserves) through Jesuit Missions London and/or directly to individual persons/institutions.
Charity Status: Active
Constitutional Form: Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
Constitutional Form Date: 13 Sept 2016
Main Operating Location: Renfrewshire
Number of Staff: 0
Number of Volunteers: 0
Purposes: "the prevention or relief of poverty", "the advancement of education"
Beneficiaries: "Children or young people", "People with disabilities or health problems"
Types Of Activity Undertaken: "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 £12,509 £11,000 03 Jul 2022 Yes
05 Apr 2023 £29,112 £29,840 05 Oct 2023 Yes
05 Apr 2024 £6,966 £9,650 04 Jul 2024 Yes
05 Apr 2025 £5,503 £10,481 15 Aug 2025 Yes Not published by OSCR
05 Apr 2026 No No
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
Maria Pedersen
Georgina O’Mailley
Claire Gemson
Ronald Santangeli
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