OSCR Scottish charity profile

David Livingstone International Ltd

ActiveCharity number SC010894
Registered4 July 1989
Main locationOutwith Scotland
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC010894
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Overseas only
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
EX31 3RB

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

To provide a Christian ministry to all people including the destitute, deprived and oppressed people of the world. Sponsoring orphan children and the carrying out of relief work of all descriptions.

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of religion
  • the advancement of health
  • the saving of lives
  • the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people
  • People with disabilities or health problems
  • Other charities or voluntary bodies

Activities

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

Constitutional objectives

The objects for which the Company is established are:- 1. To provide a Christian ministry to all people including the destitute, deprived and oppressed people of the world which shall be achieved by, without prejudice to the foregoing generality, the sponsoring of orphan and other children, the adoption of such children, the sponsoring of ministers and evangelists, the support of leper villages, the establishment and maintenance of hospitals and medical services, and the carrying out of relief work of all descriptions. 2. To accept, acquire, receive, take and hold by bequest, legacy, demise, grant, gift, purchase, exchange, lease, transfer, judicial order or decree or otherwise any property whether heritable or moveable, real or personal and wheresoever situated. 3. To sell, exchange, convey, mortgage, lease, transfer or otherwise dispose of any such property for the objects of the Company, subject to such limitations as may be prescribed by law. 4. To undertake and organise schemes for the raising of money, other financial support and assistance in kind, appeals both public and private, and the selling of goods and other products produced or acquired in connection with and ancillary to the proper and adequate care, education and training for the persons intended to benefit from the objects of the Company. 5. To borrow or raise and/or secure the payment of money or the observance of obligations in such manner as the Company shall think fit.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 December 2024£42,238£61,416030 September 2025
31 December 2023£205,378£62,434027 September 2024
31 December 2022£46,924£67,28604 September 2023
31 December 2021£78,864£47,920027 September 2022
31 December 2020£41,262£93,173011 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
47 Brynsworthy Park, Roundswell, Barnstaple, North Devon
Website supplied to OSCR
www.davidlivingston-int-ltd.com
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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