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Scottish Charities 2008
02 July 2008
Charity Regulator publishes sector profile
Scotland’s charity regulator has published a comprehensive profile of the country’s charity sector.
Scottish Charities 2008 is the latest full profile of the charity sector produced by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator, OSCR, and is based on information collected from annual returns from charities over the regulator’s first two years of full operation.
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The profile builds on the benchmarks established in OSCR’s earlier profile
Scottish Charities 2005 and provides insight into the charity sector in Scotland, its activities, its beneficiaries and income and operating trends on a national and regional basis.
Key points drawn from the profile include:
- there are 23,806 charities on the Scottish Charity Register reporting a total annual income of £12.9 billion
- there are 355 cross border charities on the Scottish Charity Register
- 93.7% of total charitable sector income is accounted for by 5.6% of charities
- two thirds of all charities in Scotland have an annual income under £25,000, the same as 2005
- OSCR has granted charitable status to 2,114 (9%) charities since April 2006
- 56% of charities reported an email contact
OSCR’s Chief Executive, Jane Ryder, said that publishing the profile was part of OSCR’s commitment to increasing transparency and public accountability of charities.
‘We now have a statutory responsibility to maintain the Scottish Charity Register and are continually exploring ways to improve the quality and breadth of information we make available to the sector and the wider public’ she said.
‘Scottish Charities 2008 provides a more detailed profile of the sector than we were able to provide in 2005 and illustrates both continuity and interesting changes since the introduction of the 2005 Act,’ she added.
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