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Balmore Trust Ltd

Country
Scotland
Charity number
SC008930
Status
Active
Registered
June 25, 1980
Legal form
Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)

Address

Address
7 Kersland Drive
Milngavie
Glasgow
G62 8DG

Activities

'It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations','It carries out activities or services itself'

'the prevention or relief of poverty','the advancement of education','the advancement of health','the advancement of citizenship or community development','the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science','the advancement of environmental protection or improvement','the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage','any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes'

The Balmore trust was set up to relieve poverty, with a particular focus on partnerships with smallholder farmers and their communities in Africa. It works to promote trade justice, working through, and supporting, its fair trade subsidiary, JTS. It works with and supports its producer partners to deliver capacity building projects aimed at supporting them to develop sustainable livelihoods.

Beneficiaries: 'Children or young people','Other defined groups','Other charities or voluntary bodies'

Objectives: To relieve poverty, distress and suffering in any part of the world (including starvation, sickness or any physical disability or affliction) when arising from any public calamity (including famine, earthquake, war or civil disturbance) or the immediate or continuing result of want of natural or artificial resources or the means to develop them or howsoever otherwise arising.

Geography

Main operating location
East Dunbartonshire
Geographical spread
UK and overseas

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure
Jan. 31, 2025 £69,055 £191,287
Jan. 31, 2024 £156,890 £117,529
Jan. 31, 2023 £46,460 £56,510
Jan. 31, 2022 £46,460 £63,969
Jan. 31, 2021 £180,807 £124,297