01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC010242
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- Wider, but within one local authority area
- Volunteers
- 1-50 volunteers
- Staff
- 4
- Postcode
- KY16 8NJ
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
The charity’s objects and principal activities are to offer and provide support, friendship and practical help to families with at least one child under the age of five in their own home, who are experiencing some kind of difficulty and are living in the East Fife area. The main objectives and activities for the year continued to focus on the promotion of this objective. The strategies employed to assist the charity to meet these objectives included the following: • Providing a range of services which reflect the relevant quality standards and address the potential problems of the charity’s supported families. • Working towards applying national standards of service. • Working in partnership with other agencies and charities to ensure the widest possible range of services is available to meet and match the needs of the charity’s supported families.
Charitable purposes
- the advancement of education
- the advancement of health
- 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
Activities
- It carries out activities or services itself
Constitutional objectives
The charitable objects for which the Company is established are: the safeguarding, protection and preservation of the good health, both mental and physical, of children and the parents of children where at least one child in the household is under five years of age by the prevention of cruelty or maltreatment of children, the education of the public in East Fife of better standards of child care and the relief of sickness, poverty and need amongst children and the parents of children.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2025 | £113,905 | £132,153 | 4 | 28 August 2025 |
| 31 March 2024 | £187,739 | £104,522 | 4 | 9 September 2024 |
| 31 March 2023 | £112,759 | £103,894 | 4 | 13 October 2023 |
| 31 March 2022 | £104,406 | £117,488 | 4 | 25 November 2022 |
| 31 March 2021 | £133,578 | £101,711 | 4 | 23 November 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
- Unit 1A, Slotline House, Largo Road, St Andrews, Fife
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.home-start-eastfife.org.uk
- Parent charity
- HomeStart UK · 1108837
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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