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The Charles Smith Trust

Country
Scotland
Charity number
SC019974
Status
Active
Reporting
Up to date Last filed March 13, 2026. Filing history
Registered
March 20, 1992
Legal form
Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)

Address

Address
Ramsay Croft
10 Old Edinburgh Road
Dalkeith
Midlothian
EH22 1JD

Activities

'It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals'

'the advancement of education'

The Trust provides grants to persons resident in Scotland who are engaged in a profession whether in training or employment or other. All things being equal the Trust will prefer applicants in the profession of Bookseller or Stationer. In recent years, the Trust has mostly provided financial support to students in Publishing.

Beneficiaries: 'Other defined groups'

Objectives: The advancement of education

Geography

Main operating location
City of Edinburgh
Geographical spread
Wider, but within one local authority area

Finances

Period end Filed Income Expenditure
June 30, 2025 March 13, 2026On time £3,881 £7,451
June 30, 2024 Nov. 22, 2024On time £3,837 £2,939
June 30, 2023 Dec. 12, 2023On time £3,711 £2,674
June 30, 2022 Nov. 21, 2022On time £3,328 £2,692
June 30, 2021 Nov. 29, 2021On time £2,872 £3,180

Due dates are 9 months after the year end, OSCR's deadline, so they don't allow for any extension OSCR has granted.