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The Albert Morris Trust

Country
Scotland
Charity number
SC050468
Status
Active
Registered
Sept. 15, 2020
Legal form
Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)

Address

Address
Lindsays LLP
Caledonian Exchange
19a Canning Street
Edinburgh
EH3 8HE

Activities

'It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals'

'the advancement of education'

The object of the Trust as set out in its Trust Deed is the payment of grants to Edinburgh Napier University & The University of Edinburgh to fund the award of bursaries to undergraduate or post graduate students at (1) Edinburgh Napier University in their first and subsequent years of study for the Undergraduate BA Honours in Journalism or the Postgraduate MA in Journalism and ( 2) The University of Edinburgh in their first and subsequent years of study for the Undergraduate MA Honours in English Language and Literature or a Postgraduate taught Masters (MSc) Programme or PhD in the Department of English Literature.

Objectives: The Trustees shall hold the Trust Fund for the application and payment of the whole or part of the Trust Fund (including any income derived from same) as the Trustees may from time to time consider desirable for such charitable purposes or to such charitable institutions, societies, foundations, or funds as the Trustees may in their absolute discretion decide and without prejudice to the discretion of the Trustees it is my wish that the Trust Fund be used to fund the award of bursaries to undergraduate or postgraduate students at (1) Edinburgh Napier University (Scottish Charity Registered Number SC018373) in their first and subsequent years of study for the Undergraduate BA Honours in Journalism or the Postgraduate MA in Journalism and (2) The University of Edinburgh (Scottish Charity Registered Number SC005336) in their first and subsequent years of study for the Undergraduate MA Honours in English Language and Literature or a Postgraduate taught Masters (MSc) Programme or PhD in the Department of English Literature [or such other courses for undergraduate or postgraduate studies at said Universities as may, in the reasonable opinion of the Trustees, have in future replaced any of the foregoing studies].

Areas of operation

Main operating location
City of Edinburgh
Geographical spread
Wider, but within one local authority area

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure Accounts
March 31, 2025 £39,336 £28,720 PDF 2.1 MB
March 31, 2024 £38,552 £28,644
March 31, 2023 £31,183 £900
March 31, 2022 £11,516 £810
March 31, 2021 £100,000 £100,000