01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC023946
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- Wider, but within one local authority area
- Volunteers
- 1-50 volunteers
- Staff
- 0
- Postcode
- EH6 7BN
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
Our aim is to combat poverty and improve the lives of unemployed people, disabled people, benefits claimants and low paid/ precarious workers in Edinburgh and area. To do this we encourage mutual aid, collective self-education and empowerment. Our activities include weekly welfare rights sessions, and outreach stalls outside jobcentres to inform claimants of their rights and publicise the welfare rights support sessions. We enable public access to ACE's Autonomous Library by regular monthly open days on the first Saturday of the month, held in the meeting room of a local Housing Coop, enabling members of the public to browse the wide range of books and reading material, and also borrow books. Regular discussions are held at the library open days. Meanwhile ACE is involved in ongoing co-operation with other not-for-profit organisations in the longer-term project of securing new larger premises.
Charitable purposes
- the prevention or relief of poverty
- the advancement of education
Beneficiaries
- Other defined groups
Activities
- It carries out activities or services itself
Constitutional objectives
The objects of the Group are to relieve the poverty, suffering and distress, to further the health and to advance the education of unemployed persons and or other residents of the Edinburgh area who are in conditions of need, hardship or distress
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2025 | £5,314 | £3,551 | 0 | 20 December 2025 |
| 31 March 2024 | £4,649 | £3,016 | 0 | 21 December 2024 |
| 31 March 2023 | £8,960 | £7,479 | 0 | 20 December 2023 |
| 31 March 2022 | £11,719 | £7,559 | 0 | 10 December 2022 |
| 31 March 2021 | £17,778 | £18,615 | 0 | 21 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
- 33 Tower St, Leith, Edinburgh
- Website supplied to OSCR
- Not supplied
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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