OSCR Scottish charity profile

Kind - Scotland (Kids In Need & Distress)

ActiveCharity number SC020746
Registered6 November 1992
Main locationGlasgow City
Legal formTrust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC020746
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
More than one local authority area in Scotland
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
G78 2FY

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

To provide help to Kids In Need and Distress primarily in the West of Scotland, and by doing so help them know that someone cares for them. We do this through support for food at Christmas, assistance with school uniforms, the provision of beds and bedding to help alleviate bed poverty and flexibly by other means was the need arises.

Charitable purposes

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

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people

Activities

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

Constitutional objectives

The purpose of the Trust is to raise Funds by us as Trustees, and by our successors in office, as such Trustees for the purpose of providing, or assisting in ~he provision of, facilities for recreation and other leisure time occupation, of children and young'persons who are in conditions of need, hardship or distress by the provision of holidays or outings with the objects of educating and assisting them to develop their physical, mental and spiritual welfare or such other charitable) , purpose (in the sense in which that expression is used in the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988) as we in our uncontrolled discretion shall from time to time think fit. DeC1aring that without prejudice to the foregoing generality we, as Trustees, may in our uncontrolled discretion make donations and transfers to any Organisation, Trust, Body or Foundation having charitable status to be applied by such Organisation, Trust, Body or Foundation in accordance with its purposes.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£37,607£23,40108 October 2025
31 March 2024£14,917£15,147030 September 2024
31 March 2023£10,528£16,96405 December 2023
31 March 2022£20,636£17,766011 October 2022
31 March 2021£17,669£17,090013 September 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
9 Rhyolite Way, Barrhead, Glasgow
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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