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About the information we hold on Scottish Charities
The following information is supplied to OSCR by Scottish charities on an annual basis through an Annual Return form.
Charity Registration Number
Every registered charity is given a unique registration number. This begins with the prefix 'SC' and is followed by six numbers.
Charity Name
This is the charity's legal name as set out in its governing document.
Name known by
These are any working names or acronyms which we have been told the charity uses.
Address
This shows the latest contact address that OSCR has been given for the charity.
Postcode
This is the latest postcode which the charity has supplied.
Address type
This shows whether the address supplied by the charity is:
- their principal office
- the address of one of the charity’s trustees
- neither of the above (not known)
Parent Charity Name
The name of a main or parent charity.
Parent Charity Number
The registered number of the parent charity.
Parent Charity Country of Registration
The country in which that charity was registered.
Website
The charity's website address. This is a hyperlink to the charity's website.
Constitutional Form
This describes the legal structure of the charity. A charity can be any one of these types:
- Company
- Industrial and Provident Society
- Statutory corporation (Royal Charter etc)
- Educational endowment
- Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
- Unincorporated association
- Other
Annual Return Status
This gives the current status of a charity’s Annual Return as follows:
- 2005 Annual Return complete: First Annual Return has passed validation.
- 2006/7 Annual Return complete: Annual Return has passed validation and the accounts have been lodged.
- Initial Annual Return overdue: No annual return has been received from this charity.
- 2006/7 Annual Return overdue: 2006/7 mailing cycle Annual Return has not been received and is now overdue (not received within 10 months of the charity's financial year end date).
- 2006/7 Annual Return received: Annual Return has been received by OSCR but has not yet been processed.
- 2006/7 Annual Return issued: Annual Return has been issued but has not yet been received by OSCR.
- New Charity - first Annual Return not yet due: This is a new charity, granted charitable status within the last year and which is not yet required to complete an Annual Return.
- Passed to Compliance: As the annual return has not been provided, the charity has been passed to the compliance support team for further action.
Accounting Period End
This is the date of the charity's accounting year end.
Gross Income
This is the figure supplied by the charity as its total income, without deducting any expenditure.
Geographical Spread
This best describes how local or widespread the work of the charity is.
Main Operating Location
The local authority area in which the charity is currently operating.
Charitable Purposes
The Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act sets out 15 charitable purposes and one analogous purpose. Charities were asked to identify at least one charitable purpose which applied to their activities.
The charitable purposes are-
(a) the prevention or relief of poverty,
(b) the advancement of education,
(c) the advancement of religion,
(d) the advancement of health,
(e) the saving of lives,
(f) the advancement of citizenship or community development,
(g) the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science,
(h) the advancement of public participation in sport,
(i) the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended,
(j) the advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation,
(k) the promotion of religious or racial harmony,
(l) the promotion of equality and diversity,
(m) the advancement of environmental protection or improvement,
(n) the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage,
(o) the advancement of animal welfare,
(p) any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes.
Beneficiaries
This lists which beneficiary groups the charity has identified as being the main focus of its activities.
- Children / young people
- Older people
- People with disabilities or health problems
- People of a particular ethnic or racial origin
- Other defined groups
- No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
- Other charities / voluntary bodies
Activities
This sets out the types of activity undertaken by the charity from the following list:
- It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
- It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
- It carries out activities or services itself
- It does none of these
Last updated
The date this charity's record was last updated by OSCR.
To find out how we collected this information, download a sample annual return form.
The Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 requires OSCR to publish the fact that:
- a direction is given under section 11(3), 12(2) or (3), 16(6), 28(3), 30(1) or 31(5), (6), (7), (8) or (9)
- a notice is given under section 31(4)
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