Charitable Trust

[luckyal42]

I rent my home from a charitable trust (based in Scotland) administered by a firm of lawyers. I have asked the law firm who the trustess are and they have not answered, is there a way to find out who the trustees are ?

[Skyline D]

Only the way you are doing. But you are entitled to the information so if you keep pushing they should provide it and if they don't complain to OSCR.

All Scottish Charities have to be registered with OSCR (the Office of the Scottish Charities Regulator). You can look the details of the charity up on their website (www.oscr.org.uk) but it won't tell you the Trustees.

It does however say that the public are entitled to see the latest accounts of any charity on request direct to the charity under s23 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and the trustees are required to be listed in those.

You should contact the charity at their registered office per OSCR to ask for this. Which may or may not actually be the lawyers address.

[Milvus]

Try searching here: http://www.guidestar.org.uk/
They list most UK charities and trusts, and often have governor details either in the main body of the search or in the trust's attached annual report

[Skyline D]

Never heard of that Guidestar before but I just entered enquiries about five active Scottish charities I deal with regularly and none of them were listed. Whether that was because Scottish charities aren't actually included despite the name (Scottish charities are caught by a different legal regime) or just they are all just not listed conincidentally I know not. A couple of them are quite big though.

[Milvus]

My mistake. I've used it a lot for charity queries in England. Just looking back at their front page they do say England and Wales only.