Charity Details

Essentia Foundation SCIO

SC050660Registered charity from 08 January 2021

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Notes:

This charity was established to replace Essentia Foundation- SC036563 Essentia Foundation- SC036563 has now wound up and passed its assets and liabilities to Essentia Foundation SCIO SC050660 which is a SCIO.

Charity Information:

Address Brodies LLP
110 Queen Street
Glasgow

Postcode G1 3BX

Website https://www.essentiafoundation.org.uk/

Regulatory Type Standard

Object:

7.1 The Charitable Purposes of the SCIO are:- 7.1.1 the promotion of the health and social welfare of children and young people; 7.1.2 the promotion for the benefit of the public of urban or rural regeneration in areas of social and economic deprivation in Scotland by all or any of the foregoing means: 7.1.2.1the advancement of education, training or retraining, particularly among unemployed people, and providing unemployed people with work experience; 7.1.2.2the provision of financial assistance, technical assistance or business advice or consultancy in order to provide training and employment opportunities for unemployed people in cases of financial or other charitable need through help (1) in setting up their own business, or (2) to existing businesses; 7.1.2.3 the creation of training and employment opportunities by the provision of workspace, buildings, and/or land for use on favourable terms; and 7.1.3 such other purposes as are charitable. 7.2 The SCIO will promote, advance and further its Charitable purposes by operating as a "grant giving" charity which will support financially and otherwise charities and others in Scotland. 7.3 For the purposes of the 2005 Act the following charitable purposes are (i) particularly relevant and (ii) is the charitable purpose identified as applicable from section 7 of the 2005 Act:- 7.3.1 the advancement of health; 7.3.2 the advancement of education; 7.3.3 the advancement of citizenship or community development; 7.3.4 the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage; and 7.3.5 the relief of unemployment. 7.4 For the purposes of the Taxes Acts and the provisions set out in clauses 7.1 to 7.2 shall be read together to ensure the purposes of the SCIO are compliant with the Taxes Acts.

Operations:

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

The charity was established to support its charitable purposes by making grants

Charity Status: Active

Constitutional Form: SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

Constitutional Form Date: 08 Jan 2021

Main Operating Location: Glasgow City

Number of Staff: 0

Number of Volunteers: 0

Purposes: "the advancement of education", "the advancement of health", "the advancement of citizenship or community development", "the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage", "any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes"

Beneficiaries: "No specific group, or for the benefit of the community"

Types Of Activity Undertaken: "It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations"

Annual Submissions:

Year End	Income	Expenditure	Annual Return Received	Accounts Received	Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
30 Sept 2021	£135,784	£236,756	15 Apr 2022	Yes
30 Sept 2022	£161,913	£147,488	31 May 2023	Yes
30 Sept 2023	£149,422	£212,318	09 Feb 2024	Yes
30 Sept 2024	£173,044	£222,709	04 Jun 2025	Yes	Visit Charity's Website
31 Dec 2025			No	Annual Information due by 30 Sept 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
Ian	Gibson
Brian	Davidson
James	Nichol
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