# India Village Ministries

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC032158
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
- **Registered:** Sept. 2, 2001
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC032158


## Contact

- **Address:** Hillhead Farmhouse, Midmar, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire
- **Postcode:** AB51 7LS



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals&#x27;,&#x27;It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the prevention or relief of poverty&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of education&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of religion&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of health&#x27;,&#x27;the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage&#x27;

**What the charity does:** The charity is set up to bear the annual operating costs of the work carried on by Indi Village Ministries (an Indian charity registered under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act 1976) based in Andhra Pradesh.  It supports one full time worker and his family.  The charity&#x27;s principal source of income is from donations by individuals and churches in the United Kingdom.

**Objectives:** (a) To relieve poverty and hardship among needy, poor, orphan children in India through the provision of shelter and nutritional, health, educational, general welfare and vocational training programmes.  (b) To advance the Christian faith in India and throughout the world by promoting and developing evangelistic and Church planting work through the establishment of training centres for Christian ministry and leadership.  (c) To advance education and in particular the education of poor children in India.  (d) To relieve persons who are in conditions of need or hardship or who are aged or sick and to relieve the distress caused in the villages of India or the world as the Trustees may from time to time think fit.  (e) To promote and fulfil such other charitable purposes beneficial to the village communities in India.





## Areas of operation

- **Main operating location:** Aberdeenshire
- **Geographical spread:** Overseas only






