The Royal Company of Merchants of the City of Edinburgh Charitable Trust
- Country
- Scotland
- Charity number
- SC051300
- Status
- Active
- Registered
- Sept. 28, 2021
- Legal form
- Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
Address
- Address
- The Merchants' Hall
22 Hanover Street
Edinburgh
EH2 2EP
Contact
- Website
mcoe.org.uk
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 education','the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage'
· To encourage and provide assistance to any project, schemes or undertakings, which the Trustees will consider to be of benefit to the public or sectors of the community in the Edinburgh area. · To promote and encourage the advancement of education of children and young persons up to the age of 30 by the provision of facilities, projects, schemes, courses of instruction and training and other arrangements. · To provide assistance of an educational, social, welfare or any kind to any such children or young persons whom the Trustees consider to be disadvantaged by reason of ill health, financial or family need or in any other way whatsoever. · To provide assistance to any other established charity · To provide grants, bursaries, prizes, travel scholarship, study or research grants, books, tools, instruments, kits or any other equipment and generally any other assistance and encouragement, financially or otherwise towards the fulfilment of the foregoing objects.
Objectives: The Trustees shall hold the Trust Fund for such purposes ('Purposes') only as are within the meaning of charitable purposes in terms of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 as amended or superseded from time to time which are also regarded as charitable purposes in relation to the application of the Taxes Acts from time to time in force. DECLARING that the Purposes may include all or any of the following purposes:- 3.1 The prevention or relief of poverty through: 3.1.1 the provision of an income to those persons in necessitous circumstances with a particular, though not exclusive, focus on those persons who additionally have strong ties to the City of Edinburgh. 3.1.2 the provision of financial support to those persons in need by reason of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship, bereavement, or other necessitous circumstances, with a particular, though not exclusive, focus on those persons who additionally reside in the Edinburgh and Lothian area, and to Merchant Company members who are found in reduced circumstances. 3.1.3 the provision of assistance to any project, scheme or undertaking which the Trustees consider to be of benefit to the public or sectors of any community, with a particular, though not exclusive, focus on projects, schemes or undertakings which will benefit those in necessitous circumstances and in the Edinburgh and Lothian area. and 3.1.4 the provision of assistance to any other established charity which the Trustees consider to have purposes similar to either of those described in clause 3.1.1 - 3.1.3 above.
Areas of operation
- Main operating location
- City of Edinburgh
- Geographical spread
- Wider, but within one local authority area
Finances
| Period end | Income | Expenditure | Accounts |
|---|---|---|---|
| July 31, 2025 | £4,091,736 | £126,620 | PDF 298.3 KB |
| July 31, 2024 | £0 | £0 | |
| July 31, 2023 | £0 | £0 | |
| July 31, 2022 | £0 | £0 |