OSCR Scottish charity profile

Karen Refugee Camps Womens Development Group - Scottish Support Trust

Known as Karen Refugee Trust

ActiveCharity number SC033290
Registered11 July 2002
Main locationEast Ayrshire
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
SC033290
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Overseas only
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
G78 4DF

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

we accept donations mainly from scotland and transfer those funds to support Burmese refugees in Thailand.

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of health
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
  • the advancement of public participation in sport
  • the advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation
  • the advancement of environmental protection or improvement
  • the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people
  • Older People
  • People with disabilities or health problems
  • People with a particular ethnic or racial origin
  • Other defined groups

Activities

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

Constitutional objectives

To relieve the poverty, suffering and distress of refugees living in camps in the border areas of Burma and Thailand by the provision of financial support to enable volunteers to work in the area with the said refugees and/or the provision of food/medical equipment all with a view to improving the conditions of life for the refugees

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 December 2024£3,001£3,218019 February 2026
31 December 2023£2,029£2,20301 October 2024
31 December 2022£2,543£4,865029 September 2023
31 December 2021£4,230£4,161011 August 2023
31 December 2020£4,213£3,85005 January 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
6 glen lane, Uplawmoor
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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