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The Kirkhouse Trust SCIO

Also known as: The Kirkhouse Trust

Country
Scotland
Charity number
SC047432
Status
Active
Registered
May 18, 2017
Legal form
SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

Address

Address
c/o Morton Fraser MacRoberts LLP
9 Haymarket Square
Edinburgh
EH3 8RY

Contact

Website
kirkhousetrust.org
Screenshot of the The Kirkhouse Trust SCIO website

Activities

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

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

Our strategy is to support scientists in the target countries by providing research grants, laboratories, advice, training, equipment and supplies to enable them to carry out marker assisted selection for crop improvement. We presently focus on legume crops for a number of reasons: they provide essential nutrients not available from cereal or root crops. they improve soil by fixing nitrogen and stabilising it through their deep root systems. they are relatively neglected by funding agencies. We focus on legumes important for smallholder farmers, who produce a significant proportion of the food grown in African countries and in India.

Beneficiaries: 'Other defined groups','No specific group, or for the benefit of the community','Other charities or voluntary bodies'

Objectives: 5.1 to promote education and research in the Natural Sciences but in particular for education and research in the biological and medical sciences as such terms as may be defined by the Secretary to the Royal Society and without restricting that general purpose to apply such funds and property for the purpose of maintaining, improving and developing facilities for teaching, for post graduate work, for research or for any other purpose in the development of the Natural Sciences and in particular the biological and medical sciences. 5.2 to contribute to the endowment of existing and new chairs, departments and research facilities as shall in the sole opinion of the Trustees promote education and research in the Natural Sciences and in particular the biological and medical sciences. and 5.3 to purchase equipment or to give grants for the purchase of equipment and to give grants for the provision of facilities, whether buildings or extensions of a building, which in the sole opinion of the Trustees can promote education and research in the Natural Sciences and in particular the biological and medical sciences.

Geography

Main operating location
City of Edinburgh
Geographical spread
UK and overseas

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure Employees
March 31, 2025 £1,493,832 £1,715,487 13
March 31, 2024 £1,427,880 £1,418,134 13
March 31, 2023 £1,262,719 £1,545,253 13
March 31, 2022 £977,188 £1,347,498 14
March 31, 2021 £7,725,123 £1,531,635 14