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The Lind Foundation SCIO

Also known as: The Ballast Trust

Country
Scotland
Charity number
SC053620
Status
Active
Registered
Sept. 5, 2024
Legal form
SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

Address

Address
180 St Vincent Street
Glasgow
G2 5SG

Activities

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

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

The SCIO encourages, facilitates and conducts research in all aspects of business history. The SCIO funds the Ballast Trust Archivist and Business Archives Surveying Officer.

Objectives: The purposes of the SCIO are:- (i) the advancement of education, heritage, culture and science through the provision of (amongst other things) (a) financial support for The Ballast Trust, or by whatever name that the organisation may be referred to in the future. (b) financial support to encourage, facilitate and conduct research in all aspects of business history. (c) support for the preservation and efficient organisation of business records. (d) services to assist with the location and surveying of records of historical interest and the preservation and rescue of records at risk. (e) support of bodies active in the preservation and publication of business records such as the Business Archives Council of Scotland. and (ii) to promote similar charitable purposes, objects or institutions in such proportions and manner as the Trustees think fit.

Areas of operation

Main operating location
Glasgow City
Geographical spread
Operations cover all or most of Scotland

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure Accounts
April 5, 2026 £0 £0
April 5, 2025 £4,109,132 £9,114 PDF 1.4 MB