Charity Details

Winning Scotland

SC036451Registered charity from 25 April 2005

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Notes:

Previous Charity name Winning Scotland Foundation from 25 April 2005 to 27 January 2021

Charity Information:

Address Nexus Business Space
21 Young Street
Edinburgh

Postcode EH2 4HU

Website www.winningscotland.org

Regulatory Type Standard

Link to Companies House https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/

Object:

“4.1 The Charity’s aim is to create a winning culture in Scotland through building confidence and resilience in its citizens with a primary focus on the benefit to children and/or young people through: (a) the advancement of education, including physical education; (b) the advancement of health; (c) the advancement of Citizenship or Community Development; (d) the instructing of research and development into the building of confidence and resilience and its contribution to creating a culture of increased achievement and or excellence and the making available to and use by the public of the results of such research; and (e) the promotion and carrying out of similar objects which are charitable at law and thereby bring about increased achievement and/or excellence in the wider community throughout Scotland. 4.2 In furtherance of the above Objects but not otherwise, the Charity will: (a) devise, organise and/or run training, mentoring and other programs, initiatives, services, facilities, projects and/or seminars designed to benefit children and/or young people. (b) devise, organise and/or run training courses, initiatives, services, facilities, projects, programs and/or seminars on the building of confidence, resilience and increased achievement and/or excellence. (c) devise, organise and/or run training courses, initiatives, services, facilities, projects, programmes and/or seminars for teachers, parents, coaches, carers, trainers, managers and other personnel involved in the education, health, care, personal development and citizenship, of children and young people. (d) carry out its own research and instruct third parties to carry out research into the development of confidence, resilience, the culture of winning, increased achievement and/or excellence and make the results of such research available to the public; and (e) do all such other things as are charitable at law in furtherance of any of the above and the Objects of the Charity.”

Operations:

What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:

We’re a charity that acts as a catalyst for change. Working with like-minded partners, we build confidence and resilience in all of Scotland's young people. Collaborating with a range of partners we collectively develop innovative resources and practical solutions that improve outcomes for children in Scotland. Through our work we aim to engage and empower the individuals and groups who have the greatest influence on young people, giving them the tools and knowledge to create sustainable impact. For example, a school with a positive learning culture will impart crucial skills for life and learning to its pupils, year-after-year. A community with healthy lifestyle habits is more likely to achieve and be aspirational and a child with confidence and resilience is more likely to be successful in life.

Charity Status: Active

Constitutional Form: Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)

Constitutional Form Date: 25 Apr 2005

Main Operating Location: City of Edinburgh

Number of Staff: 7

Number of Volunteers: 1-50

Purposes: "the advancement of education", "the advancement of health", "the advancement of citizenship or community development", "any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes"

Beneficiaries: "Children or young people"

Types Of Activity Undertaken: "It carries out activities or services itself"

Annual Submissions:

Year End	Income	Expenditure	Annual Return Received	Accounts Received	Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
30 Jun 2021	£487,248	£456,299	11 Jan 2022	Yes
30 Jun 2022	£444,365	£475,833	31 Oct 2022	Yes
30 Jun 2023	£620,624	£568,791	15 Mar 2024	Yes
30 Jun 2024	£1,022,101	£1,060,993	24 Oct 2024	Yes
30 Jun 2025	£1,016,705	£1,038,103	20 Jan 2026	Yes	Published accounts can be found on the Companies House website
If an annual return has been received on time (within nine months of the Year End Date), the 'Annual Return Received' box is green . If an annual return is late, the box is red .

Income and Expenditure:

Charity Trustees:

First Name	Last Name
Sarah	Philp
Celia	Tennant
William Torquil	McNaughton
David	Nisbet
Colette	Grant
Catherine	Simpson
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