OSCR Scottish charity profile

Scottish International Solidarity Trust

ActiveCharity number SC039152
Registered11 January 2008
Main locationWestern Isles
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
SC039152
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
UK and overseas
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
HS8 5RW

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Support charitable works in Ecuador with grant payments for appropriate projects and activities.

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of health
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended
  • the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Beneficiaries

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

Activities

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

Constitutional objectives

To relieve persons in Ecuador or elsewhere who are in conditions of financial hardship or who are marginalised by society or who are aged or sick by making grants of money or by providing food, shelter, goods, services or access to such. To advance education in Ecuador or elsewhere by such means as the Trustees may consider appropriate including the provision of educational materials and facilities or the funding of new, enlarged or improved educational establishments, or the provision of financial or other assistance and support for the establishment and operation of any such educational establishment or establishments. To advance citizenship and community development in Ecuador and Scotland by creating, funding, managing, completing and making provision for the long-term maintenance of community projects for the improvement of social, educational and economic conditions in Ecuador, and by establishing social and economic links between persons and communities in Scotland and persons and communities in Ecuador.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£837£0010 January 2026
31 March 2024£722£3,022031 December 2024
31 March 2023£4,216£0026 December 2023
31 March 2022£2,132£9,02207 December 2022
31 March 2021£3,653£0026 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
20 West Gerinish, South Uist, Western Isles
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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