OSCR Scottish charity profile

Winning Scotland

ActiveCharity number SC036451
Registered25 April 2005
Main locationCity of Edinburgh
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC036451
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Operations cover all or most of Scotland
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
7
Postcode
EH2 4HU
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OSCR note: Previous Charity name Winning Scotland Foundation from 25 April 2005 to 27 January 2021

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

We’re a charity that acts as a catalyst for change. Working with like-minded partners, we build confidence and resilience in all of Scotland's young people. Collaborating with a range of partners we collectively develop innovative resources and practical solutions that improve outcomes for children in Scotland. Through our work we aim to engage and empower the individuals and groups who have the greatest influence on young people, giving them the tools and knowledge to create sustainable impact. For example, a school with a positive learning culture will impart crucial skills for life and learning to its pupils, year-after-year. A community with healthy lifestyle habits is more likely to achieve and be aspirational and a child with confidence and resilience is more likely to be successful in life.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of health
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

“4.1 The Charity’s aim is to create a winning culture in Scotland through building confidence and resilience in its citizens with a primary focus on the benefit to children and/or young people through: (a) the advancement of education, including physical education. (b) the advancement of health. (c) the advancement of Citizenship or Community Development. (d) the instructing of research and development into the building of confidence and resilience and its contribution to creating a culture of increased achievement and or excellence and the making available to and use by the public of the results of such research. and (e) the promotion and carrying out of similar objects which are charitable at law and thereby bring about increased achievement and/or excellence in the wider community throughout Scotland. 4.2 In furtherance of the above Objects but not otherwise, the Charity will: (a) devise, organise and/or run training, mentoring and other programs, initiatives, services, facilities, projects and/or seminars designed to benefit children and/or young people. (b) devise, organise and/or run training courses, initiatives, services, facilities, projects, programs and/or seminars on the building of confidence, resilience and increased achievement and/or excellence. (c) devise, organise and/or run training courses, initiatives, services, facilities, projects, programmes and/or seminars for teachers, parents, coaches, carers, trainers, managers and other personnel involved in the education, health, care, personal development and citizenship, of children and young people. (d) carry out its own research and instruct third parties to carry out research into the development of confidence, resilience, the culture of winning, increased achievement and/or excellence and make the results of such research available to the public. and (e) do all such other things as are charitable at law in furtherance of any of the above and the Objects of the Charity.”

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
30 June 2025£1,016,705£1,038,103720 January 2026
30 June 2024£1,022,101£1,060,993724 October 2024
30 June 2023£620,624£568,791715 March 2024
30 June 2022£444,365£475,833731 October 2022
30 June 2021£487,248£456,299711 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
Nexus Business Space, 21 Young Street, Edinburgh
Website supplied to OSCR
www.winningscotland.org
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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