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Gift of Christmas Appeal Fife

SC047029Registered charity from 06 December 2016
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Charity Information Operations Annual Submissions Income and Expenditure Charity Trustees
Charity Information:
The Name the Charity is Known By Fife's Gift of Christmas Appeal
Website https://giftofchristmas.wixsite.com/appealfife
Regulatory Type Standard
Object:
Purpose 1: The prevention or relief of poverty at Christmas time. To help ensure that for public benefit every child in Fife (aged 0-18 years) has a present to open on Christmas morning. To provide a route for the public to donate Christmas gifts to children living in poverty in the Fife area, for the benefit of the donating and receiving members of the public. We will receive donations of childrens Christmas gifts (toys, games, clothes etc) from members of the public, received at various drop off points. To pass these gifts directly to other charities organisations which work directly with children and families in need at Christmas time, for the public benefit. We will operate only within the area of Fife, Scotland, for the public benefit of individuals in this area. Beneficiaries will be children aged 0-18 years and their families. Purpose 2: The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage. To receive Christmas gifts from members of the public and pass these to other charities I organisations which are working for the public benefit to relieve disadvantage, emotional and physical ill-health, disability and financial hardship or children and young people aged 0-18 years, in the Fife area, so the gifts received can be given directly to the individuals they have identified as being in need. 2. The expenses of creating and administering the Trust, and any tax payable in relation to the Trust, shall be met in priority to all other payments and transfers of assets out of the Trust Property.
Operations:
What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:
We provide gifts at Christmas to children and young people who would otherwise receive very little, if anything, on Christmas morning. Gifts are donated by the public, and the children are referred to our charity by professionals such as Social Work, Healthcare Services, nursery and school Heads, Women’s Aid etc.
Charity Status: Active
Constitutional Form: Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
Constitutional Form Date: 06 Dec 2016
Main Operating Location: Fife
Number of Staff: 0
Number of Volunteers: 1-50
Purposes: "the prevention or relief of poverty", "the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage"
Beneficiaries: "Children or young people", "People with disabilities or health problems"
Types Of Activity Undertaken: "It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals", "It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations"
Annual Submissions:
Year End Income Expenditure Annual Return Received Accounts Received Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
31 Mar 2022 £15,796 £14,943 16 Oct 2023 Yes
31 Mar 2023 £13,029 £12,251 01 Dec 2023 Yes
31 Mar 2024 £12,227 £12,260 10 Jun 2024 Yes
31 Mar 2025 £16,482 £17,364 02 Nov 2025 Yes Not published by OSCR
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
Hilary Hayman
Adelle Mcleish
Katherine Hope
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