OSCR Scottish charity profile

Equal Exchange Ltd

ActiveCharity number SC004194
Registered13 May 1982
Main locationCity of Edinburgh
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC004194
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
UK and overseas
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
EH19 2DE

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The charity was set up to promote and encourage education and knowledge of underdevelopment with a view to the relief of poverty, in particular through fair trade. Limited resources have hindered this in recent years, and the charity is therefore in the process of being dissolved (to which OSCR's consent has been obtained).

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development

Beneficiaries

  • Other defined groups

Activities

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

Constitutional objectives

To promote and encourage, either on its own or in conjunction with others, education and knowledge of underdevelopment in all or any parts of the world with a view to the relief of poverty and distress particularly, but without prejudice to the foregoing generality, in relation to the coffee trade by all means including the researching and collecting of information or the making of grants or bursaries for the same, the production and distribution of educational materials and literature, the holding of public meetings or otherwise.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£1,158£250022 December 2025
31 March 2024£99£251023 December 2024
31 March 2023£8,172£251024 December 2023
31 March 2022£84£84030 December 2022
31 March 2021£84£15001 January 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
12 Leyden Park, Bonnyrigg, Midlothian
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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