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SBC Welfare Trust

Country
Scotland
Charity number
SC044765
Status
Active
Reporting
Up to date Last filed Nov. 20, 2025. Filing history
Registered
March 25, 2014
Legal form
Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)

Address

Address
Scottish Borders Council
Council Headquarters
Newtown St Boswells
Melrose
TD6 0SA

Contact

Website
scotborders.gov.uk
Screenshot of the SBC Welfare Trust website

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 health','the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage'

This Trust is administered by the Council communities and Partnership team and features on the council website and in each of the 5 area partnership funding information tables to raise awareness of the fund, and to support openness, transparency and equality regarding funding available to communities

Beneficiaries: 'Children or young people','Older People','People with disabilities or health problems','Other defined groups'

Objectives: 1 The Trustees (as hereinafter defined) shall hold and apply the sum of £1 paid by us to them, and such other funds and assets as may from time to time be comprised in the Trust Property (as hereinafter defined), in trust for the following purposes ('the Trust Purposes'): (a) The prevention or relief of poverty. (b) The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage. or (c) The advancement of health, including the advancement of education in health. By, among other things, the payment of grants and / or loans to such charities or other organisations or to such individuals who are deserving of benefit as the Trustees shall, in their sole and unfettered discretion, select as suitable recipients of such benefit, to be applied by such recipients for the charitable purposes of either the prevention or relief of poverty or the relief of those in need or the advancement of health, as appropriate. 2 The expenses of creating and administering the Trust, and any tax payable in relation to the Trust, shall be met in priority to all other payments and transfers of assets out of the Trust Property.

Geography

Main operating location
Scottish Borders
Geographical spread
Wider, but within one local authority area

Finances

Period end Filed Income Expenditure
March 31, 2025 Nov. 20, 2025On time £40,386 £24,097
March 31, 2024 Dec. 19, 2024On time £77,976 £28,237
March 31, 2023 Dec. 18, 2023On time £37,061 £14,707
March 31, 2022 Nov. 30, 2022On time £33,837 £15,674
March 31, 2021 Nov. 26, 2021On time £28,572 £1,125

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