01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC010489
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- Operations cover all or most of Scotland
- Volunteers
- 0 volunteers
- Staff
- 44
- Postcode
- FK9 4TY
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
The Scottish Childminding Association (SCMA) is the only organisation dedicated to supporting childminders in Scotland. We promote childminding as a quality childcare service and support childminders to be the very best they can be. SCMA helps shape policy, share knowledge and guidance, provide professional training and events for our members and the wider childminding community. SCMA launched the next phase of our ten-year strategy - Changing the Narrative (Stage 2) Childminding | Providing Solutions for Scotland: SCMA Strategy 2024-2027 - to our childminder members from across Scotland on Saturday 11 May 2024 at our annual SCMA Conference. This stage of our strategy focuses on providing vital solutions for childminding in Scotland, through supporting and expanding our current workforce, working in partnership with families and communities, and use evidence to build consensus for creating impetus for change.
Charitable purposes
- any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes
Beneficiaries
- Children or young people
Activities
- It carries out activities or services itself
Constitutional objectives
3. The objects of Association are.- i) To promote the provision of facilities for the daily care, recreation and education of children under the age of sixteen years and promote the observance of good standards of childminding by the parents of such children and all persons and organisations providing such facil ities and ii) to advance the education and training of childminders and other persons and organisations providing day care facilities for children under the age of sixteen years and to conduct research into all aspects of the care, recreation and education of such children and publish the useful results of such research.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2025 | £5,470,637 | £5,215,138 | 44 | 21 November 2025 |
| 31 March 2024 | £4,395,830 | £4,347,205 | 44 | 17 March 2025 |
| 31 March 2023 | £3,163,883 | £3,232,686 | 44 | 10 October 2023 |
| 31 March 2022 | £2,825,608 | £2,813,947 | 44 | 1 November 2022 |
| 31 March 2021 | £2,804,211 | £2,803,293 | 44 | 12 October 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
- Argyll Court, Castle Business Park, Stirling
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.childminding.org
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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