01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- 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
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
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 October 2025 | £1,005,287 | £1,394,595 | 11 | 11 June 2026 |
| 31 October 2024 | £1,050,488 | £1,328,462 | 11 | 27 May 2025 |
| 31 October 2023 | £1,191,894 | £1,404,232 | 11 | 3 June 2024 |
| 31 October 2022 | £1,627,745 | £1,288,100 | 11 | 31 May 2023 |
| 31 October 2021 | £1,288,932 | £1,017,024 | 11 | 25 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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