OSCR Scottish charity profile

Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre

ActiveCharity number SC006208
Registered19 October 1978
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
SC006208
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
More than one local authority area in Scotland
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
34
Postcode
EH7 4HX

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Vision ‘Until we have a world free of sexual violence, we act in solidarity with survivors’. Purpose Originally established in 1978, ERCC’s charitable objectives are: • To relieve the distress of women, men, boys, girls and non-binary people aged over 12 years who have been raped or who have experienced sexual violence and of their partners, friends and families through the provision of emotional and practical support, information, advice and advocacy. and, • To advance education, through the provision of information, advice and advocacy, among professional bodies and the general public about the causes, nature, extent and effects of rape and sexual violence against women, men, boys and girls aged over 12 years, and ways of preventing or relieving the suffering it causes.

Charitable purposes

  • the promotion of equality and diversity
  • the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people
  • Other defined groups
  • Other charities or voluntary bodies

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

In particular the Objects shall be: 5.1 to relieve the distress of women, men, boys and girls aged over 12 years who have been raped or who have experienced sexual violence and of their partners, friends and families through the provision of emotional and practical support, information, advice and advocacy. and 5.2 to advance education, through the provision of information, advice and advocacy, among professional bodies and the general public about the causes, nature, extent and effects of rape and sexual violence against women, men, boys and girls aged over 12 years, and ways of preventing or relieving the suffering it causes.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£1,563,651£1,639,3813422 December 2025
31 March 2024£1,622,432£1,690,8723419 December 2024
31 March 2023£1,974,616£1,855,2963418 December 2023
31 March 2022£1,504,975£1,255,550345 December 2022
31 March 2021£1,134,362£937,4313422 December 2021

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
17 Claremont Crescent, Edinburgh
Website supplied to OSCR
http://www.ercc.scot/
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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