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WCH Trust for Children

SC003724Registered charity from 16 July 1914
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Information about this charity:
Charity Information Operations Annual Submissions Income and Expenditure Charity Trustees
Notes:
This SCIO was incorporated on 24th August 2016 as a result of a Change to SCIO application by Widowers Childrens Home Trust (SC003724), which was a Trust registered as a charity since 16th July 1914.
Charity Information:
Address MHA
Chartered Accountants
6 St Colme Street
Edinburgh
Postcode EH3 6AD
Website No Link Provided
Regulatory Type Standard
Object:
The Charitable Purposes of the SCIO ("the Charitable Purposes") are: 3.1.1 to provide financial assistance and other benefits, from time to time, to former residents and/or former employees of the former Widowers' Children's Home, Edinburgh who are in need by way of ill health, financial hardship or other disadvantage; 3.1.2 to provide financial assistance to charities registered in Scotland, in particular those that are concerned with the care and welfare of children; and 3.1.3 to provide relief by way of grants or other means to individual children and young adults up to the age of 25 or the families of such individuals for the purpose of education, training, treatment for mental or physical disabilities or ill health, the provision of equipment for the benefit of such individuals and the provision of holidays and the like.
Operations:
What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:
Provide grants to other charities who run projects for children and young people in Scotland, and provide funding to ex-residents of the Widower's Children's Home
Charity Status: Active
Constitutional Form: SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
Constitutional Form Date: 24 Aug 2016
Previous Constitutional Form: Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
Previous Constitutional Form Date: 16 Jul 1914
Main Operating Location: City of Edinburgh
Number of Staff: 0
Number of Volunteers: 0
Purposes: "the prevention or relief of poverty", "the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage"
Beneficiaries: "Children or young people", "People with disabilities or health problems", "Other defined groups", "Other charities or voluntary bodies"
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 Mar 2021 £37,982 £71,562 17 Dec 2021 Yes
31 Mar 2022 £41,746 £101,321 08 Dec 2022 Yes
31 Mar 2023 £41,326 £96,969 31 Oct 2023 Yes
31 Mar 2024 £42,574 £109,839 12 Nov 2024 Yes
31 Mar 2025 £40,093 £234,131 20 Nov 2025 Yes Download
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
No charity trustee information available
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