01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC017483
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- More than one local authority area in Scotland
- Volunteers
- 1-50 volunteers
- Staff
- 87
- Postcode
- EH13 0PQ
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
We are set up to create a community of people who value everyone equally, and where people with and without learning disabilities live and work alongside one another. Our purpose is to allow our members with learning disabilities to live a full life and fulfil their individual potential.
Charitable purposes
- the advancement of education
- the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended
- the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Beneficiaries
- People with disabilities or health problems
Activities
- It carries out activities or services itself
Constitutional objectives
The objects of the Trust are:- (a) to provide care to and advance the education, training and development of beneficiaries in accordance with the Steiner Principles and the principle of Community Life by. (i) the establishment and maintenance of a community or communities that includes shared community households, the provision of tenancies, residence households and through community building of day services, social enterprises or other social, educational or working facilities and. (ii) the provision, or procurement, of education, training, leisure, activity and work, within, or outside, the community or communities for beneficiaries. (b) to promote such similar charitable purposes, objects or institutions in such proportions and manner as the Trustees shall think fit.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Total income | Donations | Charitable activities income | Trading income | Investment income | Other income | Total expenditure | Raising funds | Charitable activities spending | Other spending | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2025 | £4,019,000 | £256,900 | £3,662,179 | £99,799 | £122 | £0 | £3,823,390 | £17,022 | £3,806,368 | £0 | 87 | 22 September 2025 |
| 31 March 2024 | £3,450,491 | £36,410 | £3,303,774 | £109,702 | £605 | £0 | £3,736,223 | £53,180 | £3,683,043 | £0 | 87 | 7 October 2024 |
| 31 March 2023 | £3,504,993 | £103,640 | £3,280,998 | £120,130 | £225 | £0 | £3,464,548 | £49,310 | £3,415,238 | £0 | 87 | 4 December 2023 |
| 31 March 2022 | £3,626,577 | £573,139 | £2,973,906 | £79,524 | £8 | £0 | £3,192,191 | £43,551 | £3,148,640 | £0 | 87 | 19 December 2022 |
| 31 March 2021 | £2,997,303 | £88,883 | £2,725,666 | £58,632 | £20 | £124,102 | £2,796,761 | £41,842 | £2,754,919 | £0 | 87 | 20 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
- 55 Torphin Road, Edinburgh
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.tiphereth.org.uk
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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