# Mrs Hamida Begum Murtaza's Charitable Trust

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC052515
- **Status:** Active
- **Reporting:** Up to date. Last filed July 27, 2026.
- **Legal form:** Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
- **Registered:** April 26, 2023
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC052515


## Contact

- **Address:** Fergusson Law, 25-27 Barony Street, Edinburgh
- **Postcode:** EH3 6PD



## Activities

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

**Purposes:** 'the advancement of education','the advancement of religion','the promotion of religious or racial harmony','the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage'

**What the charity does:** Provide grants to other charitable organisations which carry out activities to further the aim and objectives of the Murtaza Trys

**Beneficiaries:** 'People with a particular ethnic or racial origin'

**Objectives:** The Trustees shall hold and apply the foregoing legacy from the estate of the late Mrs Hamida Begum Murtaza, and such other funds and assets as may from time to time be comprised in the Trust Property, in trust for the following puirposes:- (a) to advance education by providing support to schools, college and in the community for educational and skills training in Scotland and elsewhere in the world. (b) to advance religion and promote racial harmony through educational projects in Scotland and elsewhere in the world. (c) to assist those in need because they are disadvantaged compared to others through poverty, disasters of any description or discrimination for whatever reason.





## Geography

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







