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Soul Food Edinburgh

SC048599Registered charity from 02 August 2018
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Charity Information Operations Annual Submissions Income and Expenditure Charity Trustees
Charity Information:
Address 44/6 Craighouse Gardens
Edinburgh
Postcode EH105TZ
Website https://www.soulfoodedinburgh.org/
Regulatory Type Standard
Object:
4 The charity is established to assist individuals in poverty or at risk of poverty, or who are in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage by providing hot meals, accommodation, community support, sign-posting support, employment and skills training and drop-in cafes for such people whether they are homeless or otherwise vulnerable or in need and by providing such other support services as the trustees in their sole discretion consider appropriate, including (but not limited to) the provision of meals, clothing, education and guidance.
Operations:
What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:
Our main activity is hosting healthy, home-cooked meals in churches across the city of Edinburgh and also, recently in Livingston. We assist churches to set up a service to provide hot meals to individuals in poverty or at risk of poverty, or who are in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage. The charity can assist with advice, training and recruitment of volunteers to help establish these meals and then provide continuing assistance, and where required, additional funding, to help the churches continue their meal provision. We partner with other organisations to provide signposting in relation to accommodation, community support, employment, skills training and debt advice.
Charity Status: Active
Constitutional Form: SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
Constitutional Form Date: 02 Aug 2018
Main Operating Location: City of Edinburgh
Number of Staff: 0
Number of Volunteers: 0
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: "Other defined groups", "Other charities or voluntary bodies"
Types Of Activity Undertaken: "It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations", "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 2021 £48,739 £35,106 29 Nov 2021 Yes
31 Mar 2022 £38,613 £44,775 18 Nov 2022 Yes
31 Mar 2023 £66,090 £71,331 23 Nov 2023 Yes
31 Mar 2024 £64,725 £52,224 26 Nov 2024 Yes
31 Mar 2025 £83,999 £71,199 04 Dec 2025 Yes Download
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
Ruth Hassall
Christopher Hunt
Caleb Bales
Richard Cornfield
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