OSCR Scottish charity profile

Scottish Prison Service Benevolent Fund

ActiveCharity number SC021603
Registered16 June 1993
Main locationCity of Edinburgh
Legal formUnincorporated association

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 4 November 2026
OSCR charity number
SC021603
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Operations cover all or most of Scotland
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
AB51 0TL

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Our purposes and objects as set out in our constitution are the promotion of relief of poverty and the advancement of health. Beneficial groups include children/young people, older people, people with disabilities or health problems, other defined groups and other charities/voluntary bodies. BENFU covers all or most of Scotland but requests from other areas will always be considered. Summary of the main activitios in relation to these obiects Requests for assistance have varied from us providing funding for vouchers for food to alleviate child poverty, assistance with travel costs to and from hospital, Flowers and wheelchair.

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of health

Beneficiaries

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

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations

Constitutional objectives

the promotion of relief of poverty. the advancement of health. any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endTotal incomeDonationsCharitable activities incomeTrading incomeInvestment incomeOther incomeTotal expenditureRaising fundsCharitable activities spendingOther spendingStaffReturn received
31 March 2026£24,617£0£0£0£0£0£22,451£0£0£0030 September 2026
31 March 2025£41,305£0£0£0£0£0£18,669£0£0£003 July 2025
31 March 2024£78£0£0£0£0£0£13,827£0£0£004 December 2024
31 March 2023£26,674£0£0£0£0£0£13,811£0£0£0029 August 2023
31 March 2022£21,149£0£0£0£0£0£31,167£0£0£0013 October 2022

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
4 The Carriages, Northern Road, Kintore
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied
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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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