OSCR Scottish charity profile

Scottish Churches' China Group

Known as SCCG

ActiveCharity number SC033740
Registered2 October 2002
Main locationCity of Edinburgh
Legal formSCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC033740
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
UK and overseas
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
1
Postcode
KY11 9TD
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OSCR note: This SCIO was incorporated on 19 September 2012 as a result of a Change to SCIO application by SC033740 Scottish Churches’ China Group, which was an unincorporated association registered as a charity since 02 October 2002.

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Facilitate and fund higher education support through online courses from UK universities for health and child support workers (adult palliative care and dementia care. children with special educational needs and child hospice care) in China. Provide information about the work of our partners in China to churches in Scotland through the website, printed newsletter and two open meetings each year.

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of religion
  • the advancement of health
  • the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Beneficiaries

  • People with a particular ethnic or racial origin

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

(a) To advance education, promote good health and promote the benefit, in the interest of social welfare, of those living in China. (b) To advance the education of the general public, membership of SCCG, churches and secular institutions about the cultural, social, political and religious aspects of China. (c) To advance, encourage and support the Christian witness in China. (d) To promote such similar charitable purposes, objects or institutions in such proportions and manner as the Trustees think fit.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 December 2025£34,913£34,522120 March 2026
31 December 2024£33,178£27,580124 March 2025
31 December 2023£24,772£33,86514 April 2024
31 December 2022£14,090£19,509110 April 2023
31 December 2021£18,331£18,91517 April 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
28 Glamis Gardens, Dalgety Bay, Dunfermline, Fife,
Website supplied to OSCR
www.sccg.org.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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