OSCR Scottish charity profile

Federation For Industry Sector Skills & Standards

Known as Skills Federation

ActiveCharity number SC026655
Registered16 June 1997
Main locationOutwith Scotland
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC026655
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Scotland and other parts of the UK
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
19
Postcode
EH2 3JZ

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The Federation provides a range of services and products to service the apprenticeship market across the UK. We do this on a not-for-profit basis.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education

Beneficiaries

  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

The Company’s objects are restricted specifically, in each case only for the public benefit to: 2.1.1 advance the education of employed and unemployed persons by promoting, organising and delivering skills development. 2.1.2 promote the views of employers to those who develop skills policy and skills standards. 6 2.1.3 provide insight and intelligence about skills and economic growth. 2.1.4 delivery of skills developing activities relating to apprenticeship services. 2.1.5 promote the exchange of best practice in the development of skills policy and in labour market solutions to economic issues in the United Kingdom and overseas. and 2.1.6 to do all such other things as are incidental to the attainment or furtherance of the said objects or any of them.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£1,681,000£1,881,0001918 December 2025
31 March 2024£1,734,000£1,783,0001920 December 2024
31 March 2023£1,754,000£1,733,0001913 December 2023
31 March 2022£2,044,000£2,032,0001921 December 2022
31 March 2021£2,345,000£2,423,000198 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
14-18 Hill Street, Edinburgh
Website supplied to OSCR
www.fisss.org
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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