OSCR Scottish charity profile

Homeless World Cup Foundation

ActiveCharity number SC037091
Registered19 January 2006
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
SC037091
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
UK and overseas
Volunteers
51-100 volunteers
Staff
6
Postcode
EH1 3LR

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Overall objective is to end Global homelessness. Use football as away of engaging with homeless people in order to change their lives. Work with 70 member countries. Hold an annual football tournament. Impacted 1.5 million homeless people since it was established. Also aims to change the stereotypical image of homeless people. Runs an annual conference called 'Cities Ending Homelessness ' which is focussed on positive solutions with policy change and impact as its basis.

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people
  • Older People
  • People with disabilities or health problems
  • People with a particular ethnic or racial origin
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Activities

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

Constitutional objectives

The objects for which the Company is established are, by giving opportunities to homeless people to meet and interact with other people and to gain self respect and confidence. to relieve the poverty of, and to improve the health, living conditions and quality of life of, homeless people. to provide homeless people and young people with facilities and equipment for playing football. and to promote community participation in healthy recreation by providing facilities for playing sport.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 December 2024£496,754£552,440618 September 2025
31 December 2023£342,657£327,63767 March 2024
31 December 2022£103,547£301,966617 October 2023
31 December 2021£201,371£310,808629 September 2022
31 December 2020£374,237£325,16767 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
23 Union Street, Edinburgh
Website supplied to OSCR
www.homelessworldcup.org
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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