EDINBURGH TRUST NO2 ACCOUNT

Registered charity 227897 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The Trust supports general charitable purposes, however each year a proportion of the income is applied for the promotion and advancement of education and of the efficiency of the Armed Services of the Crown, within the UK and overseas at the discretion of the Trustees.

Objects

THE TRUSTEES SHALL STAND POSSESSED OF THE TRUST FUND AND THE INCOME THEREOF UPON TRUST TO APPLY THE SAME FOR SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES AS THEY SHALL IN THEIR DISCRETION THINK FIT.WITHOUT DEROGATING IN ANY WAY FROM THE GENERALITY OF THE FOREGOING TRUST THE TRUSTEES MAY PERFORM THE SAME BY APPLYING THE TRUST FUND AND THE INCOME THEREOF FOR THE PROMOTION AND ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND OF THE EFFICIENCY OF THE ARMED SERVICES OF THE CROWN AND IN PARTICULAR MAY PERFORM THE SAME(A) BY MAKING GRANTS AND AWARDING PRIZES OF SCHOLARSHIPS AND BURSARIES FOR SUCCESSFUL ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE FIELD OF EDUCATION AND(B) BY AWARDING PRIZES AND TROPHIES FOR COMPETITIONS AND ACTIVITIES WHICH INCREASE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE CROWN.

Area of benefit: NATIONAL

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · Disability · Environment/conservation/heritage · Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £70,499 for the year ended 31 March 2025, resulting from charitable distributions exceeding incoming resources. Per the trustees' report, free reserves stood at £4,259,257, which is considered sufficient to meet current expenditure levels for at least 12 months and approximately 27 years without reducing activities.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Kreston Reeves Audit LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (11/07/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alan Charles PARKER CBE
• BRIGADIER ALEXANDER THOMAS LINDSAY POTTS · trustee of 2 other charities
• Samuel Hugh John Macdonald

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Australia · Canada · France · Malta · Scotland · Trinidad And Tobago

Income and spending

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