01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC024914
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- Wider, but within one local authority area
- Volunteers
- 1-50 volunteers
- Staff
- 40
- Postcode
- KA1 1HA
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
East Ayrshire Carers Centre provides advice, information, support, training, respite, advocacy, and social & leisure activities to carers from the age of 5 living in East Ayrshire. A carer is anyone who cares, unpaid, for a family member or friend who struggles due to illness, disability, mental ill health, problematic substance use or addiction. The centre operates from 4 sites across East Ayrshire – Kilmarnock Carers Centre. the Carers Cottage in Kilmarnock. Cumnock Carers Centre and Dalmellington Carers Centre.
Charitable purposes
- the prevention or relief of poverty
- the advancement of education
- the advancement of health
- the advancement of citizenship or community development
- 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
- Other defined groups
Activities
- It carries out activities or services itself
Constitutional objectives
6 To promote any charitable purposes for the benefit of carers residing in East Ayrshire: (a) The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship, social isolation, distress or other disadvantage by providing information, advice, guidance an appropriate, support services. (b) The advancement of the education of the general public in matters related to the social welafare of carers. and (c) any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding objects
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2025 | £1,051,040 | £1,039,497 | 40 | 31 October 2025 |
| 31 March 2024 | £1,115,221 | £1,002,033 | 40 | 19 November 2024 |
| 31 March 2023 | £1,030,643 | £941,794 | 40 | 10 October 2023 |
| 31 March 2022 | £953,061 | £845,099 | 40 | 27 October 2022 |
| 31 March 2021 | £775,086 | £601,551 | 40 | 7 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
- East Ayrshire Carers Centre, 7 Bank Street, Kilmarnock
- Website supplied to OSCR
- Not supplied
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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