OSCR Scottish charity profile

Royal British Legion Scotland SCIO

Known as Legion Scotland

ActiveCharity number SC003323
Registered31 July 1950
Main locationCity of Edinburgh
Legal formSCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC003323
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Operations cover all or most of Scotland
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
11
Postcode
EH7 4HQ
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OSCR note: The SCIO was incorporated on the 17th October 2016, as a result of a Change to SCIO application by Royal British Legion Scotland, which was an Unincorporated Association registered as Unincorporated Association registered as a Charity since 31st July 1950.

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

SUPPORT EX SERVICE PERSONNEL.

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
  • the advancement of public participation in sport
  • the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended
  • 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

  • Older People
  • People with disabilities or health problems
  • Other defined groups
  • Other charities or voluntary bodies

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

3. CHARITABLE PURPOSES and PRINCIPLES The purposes of RBLS are the advancement of education through Remembrance. the relief of those in need through Benevolence. and the promotion of community development through Comradeship. all as follows: 3.1 Remembrance - perpetuating the memory of all service and civilian personnel who have fallen in service of their Country and to commemorate those who fell, of all faiths, races, and creeds. 3.2 Benevolence – to reduce the financial need of veterans’ including their dependents, on a needs led basis. 3.3 Comradeship – including wellbeing and welfare within the veteran and wider community, increasing morale, by holding social events to help prevent isolation. 3.4 In principle RBLS recognises all who have served the Crown and their dependents as one family regardless of service, unit, rank, length of service, nationality, gender, race, faith or social status.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 October 2025£1,005,287£1,394,5951111 June 2026
31 October 2024£1,050,488£1,328,4621127 May 2025
31 October 2023£1,191,894£1,404,232113 June 2024
31 October 2022£1,627,745£1,288,1001131 May 2023
31 October 2021£1,288,932£1,017,0241125 April 2022

Figures are those reported by the charity and supplied in the OSCR bulk download. Blank facts remain distinct from zero.

04 Contact record

Principal office or trustees address

Address supplied to OSCR
New Haig House, Logie Green Road, Edinburgh
Website supplied to OSCR
www.legionscotland.org.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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