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Scotland's Churches Trust

Country
Scotland
Charity number
SC043105
Status
Active
Registered
April 23, 2012
Legal form
SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

Address

Address
15 North Bank Street
Edinburgh
EH1 2LP

Activities

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

'the advancement of education','the advancement of religion','the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science'

Scotland’s Churches Trust is an independent built-heritage charity dedicated to protecting, preserving and promoting Scotland’s unique inheritance of religious architecture. We support and advocate on behalf of the congregations and communities who sustain and maintain current and former places of worship, helping to safeguard these historic buildings and the stories, traditions and local identities that they embody. Alongside practical advice on routine maintenance, historical interpretation and community engagement, we also provide a national online directory that signposts tens of thousands of visitors each year to places of worship across Scotland. In recent years, as denominations make difficult decisions about their properties, we have also been assisting communities seeking to take on these closure-threatened buildings, developing as part of this activity an award-winning rapid-recording methodology to document quickly the fragile heritage contained within each site.

Objectives: The organisation is established for charitable purposes only and, in particular, aims to advance the preservation, promotion and understanding of Scotland's rich architectural heritage represented in its churches and places of worship of all denominations. Its purposes are: 4.1 to advance heritage and religion by the preservation and upkeep of churches and other places of worship including churchyards. 4.2 to encourage churches and other places of worship to open to welcome visitors, tourists and pilgrims. 4.3 to advance education and promote understanding of the public about the history, art, architecture and traditions of churches and other places of worship and their position as a focal point in the community. and 4.4 to provide grants or donations to other charitable or religious individuals, bodies or organisations with aims or objects analogous to purposes 4.1-4.3 or, more generally, with the common purpose of maintaining churches and other places of worship.

Areas of operation

Main operating location
City of Edinburgh
Geographical spread
Operations cover all or most of Scotland

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure Employees
March 31, 2025 £39,143 £84,689 2
March 31, 2024 £34,880 £76,830 -
March 31, 2023 £44,928 £41,108 -
March 31, 2022 £56,482 £94,244 -
March 31, 2021 £38,245 £125,532 -