# The Vernon, May and Joyce Cohen Charitable Trust

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC045951
- **Status:** Removed
- **Legal form:** Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
- **Registered:** Sept. 1, 2015
- **Removed:** March 11, 2026
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC045951


## Contact

- **Address:** MacRoberts LLP, Capella , 60 York Street, Glasgow
- **Postcode:** G2 8JX



## 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 saving of lives&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of citizenship or community development&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of public participation in sport&#x27;,&#x27;the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation&#x27;,&#x27;the promotion of religious or racial harmony&#x27;,&#x27;the promotion of equality and diversity&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of environmental protection or improvement&#x27;,&#x27;the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of animal welfare&#x27;,&#x27;any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes&#x27;

**What the charity does:** With advice from stockbrokers the Trustees administer a portfolio of stocks/shares to generate income from which to make grants to charitable causes.  The grants are made at the discretion of the trustees and have focussed on those noted in the constitution or which were particularly pertinent to the late Joyce Cohen, under whose Will the trust was set up.

**Objectives:** The Trustees shall for a minimum period of Twenty five years from the date of my death apply this Trust Fund and the income thereof or any part of such income for such charitable purposes (in the sense in which that expression is used I used in the Income and Corporation Tax Act 1970) as they in their uncontrolled discretion shall from time to time think fit including, without prejudice to the foregoing generality and without restricting the Trustees in any way in the exercise of their discretionary powers, but by way of a guide to the Trustees, the relief of poverty, the preservation and renewal of buildings and other items of national or historical interest, the advancement of health and education and the assistance of disabled people.





## Areas of operation

- **Main operating location:** Glasgow City
- **Geographical spread:** UK and overseas






