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John Schofield Trust

Country
Scotland
Charity number
SC052921
Status
Active
Reporting
Up to date Last filed Dec. 22, 2025. Filing history
Registered
Nov. 1, 2023
Legal form
Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)

Address

Address
PO Box 108
Haslemere
GU27 9GU

Activities

'It carries out activities or services itself'

'the advancement of education','the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage'

Beneficiaries: 'Other defined groups'

Objectives: The trustees shall hold the trust fund and its income upon trust to apply them for the following objects ('the objects') The Trust will administer a mentoring scheme to support early career journalists. This mentoring scheme will be selective based on an application process. It will further present Masterclasses to promote education and career development in journalism. The Trust's charitable purposes are for the public benefit to: 1.1 promote social inclusion by relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society. 1.2 advance education in journalism through, in particular, the provision of training, mentoring and/or developmental support in the field of journalism to early-career journalists and young people who are socially excluded based in Scotland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

Geography

Main operating location
Outwith Scotland
Geographical spread
Scotland and other parts of the UK

Finances

Period end Filed Income Expenditure Employees
March 31, 2026 Due Dec. 31, 2026 £0 £0 1
March 31, 2025 Dec. 22, 2025On time £150,083 £131,237 1

Due dates are 9 months after the year end, OSCR's deadline, so they don't allow for any extension OSCR has granted.