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Mining Institute Of Scotland Trust

Country
Scotland
Charity number
SC024974
Status
Active
Reporting
Up to date Last filed July 24, 2026. Filing history
Registered
July 15, 1996
Legal form
Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)

Address

Address
1 Almond Crescent
Comrie
Crieff
Perthshire
PH6 2PA

Activities

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

'the prevention or relief of poverty','the advancement of education'

The charity is set up to receive applications for both educational and benevolence funding as per the founding Trust deed. Such applications are considered on their merits and are funded by income from investments. The Trustees meet three times in every calendar year.

Beneficiaries: 'Other defined groups'

Objectives: The trustees shall pay, apply or make over the whole free annual income of the Benevolent Fund, or such part thereof as they shall in their own absolute discretion think fit, to for or among or for the benefit of anyone or more of (1) former members of the Mining Institute of Scotland or (2) members or former members of the Institution of Mining Engineers for the time being resident in Scotland or who have worked in connection with mining matters for at least five consecutive years in Scotland or (3) any spouse, widow, widower, parent, child or former dependant of any such person of either category as are by reason of poverty, indigence , illness, disability or age in need of relief or support, but that for the purpose of such relief or support and not otherwise. in the event that the Trustees having given full and proper consideration to making payment to potential beneficiaries meeting the foregoing criteria in this paragraph but there remains all or part of the whole free annual income of the Benevolent Fund then the Trustees shall in their own absolute discretion if they think fit, make payment of all or any part of such remaining free annual income of the Benevolent Fund to The Members Benevolent Trust of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (English registered charity no. 20718) for the Trustees of that Trust to make payment in their discretion as they consider to be appropriate to beneficiaries albeit such beneficiaries are resident in England and Wales

Geography

Main operating location
City of Edinburgh
Geographical spread
Scotland and other parts of the UK

Finances

Period end Filed Income Expenditure
Dec. 31, 2025 July 24, 2026On time £18,006 £57,454
Dec. 31, 2024 Sept. 4, 2025On time £22,146 £51,093
Dec. 31, 2023 Aug. 12, 2024On time £24,486 £65,508
Dec. 31, 2022 Aug. 30, 2023On time £27,777 £52,844
Dec. 31, 2021 Aug. 12, 2022On time £25,056 £50,545
Dec. 31, 2020 July 20, 2021 £25,075 £48,287

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