Charity Details

Cyrenians

SC011052Registered charity from 17 October 1969

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Notes:

This SCIO was incorporated on 18 March 2016 as a result of a Change to SCIO application by SC011052 Edinburgh Cyrenian Trust, which was a Charitable Trust registered as a charity since 17 October 1969

Charity Information:

Address Norton Park
57 Albion Road
Edinburgh

Postcode EH7 5QY

Website www.cyrenians.scot

Regulatory Type Standard

Object:

2 The Cyrenians’ mission is to support people excluded from family, home, work or community on their life journey. In pursuance of this, the purposes of Cyrenians are: 2.1 To provide and develop services: 2.1.1 to alleviate conflict and promote understanding between people in their families and in the community; 2.1.2 to support and help and to accommodate where appropriate, people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness; 2.1.3 to assist people without work into useful and rewarding employment; 2.1.4 to promote healthy eating and to educate and support people in the values of good food, nutrition and health; 2.1.5 to promote environmental sustainability and to minimise waste. 2.1.6 to relieve poverty, exclusion and need, and to provide any other service that the trustees deem necessary in support of the Cyrenians’ mission. 2.2 The provision of financial assistance in any form to any body, corporate or unincorporated, any group, organisation or association whose purposes are similar to those declared above which is active and operating for the benefit of individuals or communities and is itself established for charitable purposes only.

Operations:

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

Cyrenians tackles the causes and consequences of homelessness through learning from lived experience; by delivering targeted services which focus on prevention, early intervention and support into a home; and by influencing changes in legislation and policy.

Charity Status: Active

Constitutional Form: SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

Constitutional Form Date: 18 Mar 2016

Previous Constitutional Form: Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)

Previous Constitutional Form Date: 17 Oct 1969

Main Operating Location: City of Edinburgh

Number of Staff: 203

Number of Volunteers: over 250

Purposes: "the prevention or relief of poverty", "the advancement of education", "the advancement of health", "the advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation", "the advancement of environmental protection or improvement", "the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage"

Beneficiaries: "Other defined groups"

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
31 Mar 2022	£6,064,557	£5,942,386	16 Dec 2022	Yes
31 Mar 2023	£6,978,000	£7,120,000	27 Sept 2023	Yes
31 Mar 2024	£7,778,000	£8,002,000	02 Sept 2024	Yes
31 Mar 2025	£8,364,000	£8,728,000	18 Nov 2025	Yes	Visit Charity's Website
31 Mar 2026			No	Annual Information due by 31 Dec 2026
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
Deborah	Benson
Peter Fawcett	Lloyd
Jason	MacGilp
Veronika	Gunn-Boesch
James	Johnstone
Bernadette	Monaghan
Isobel	Wylie
Viv	Monaghan
Mairi	Cameron
John	Lawrie
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