OSCR Scottish charity profile

Freedom from Fistula Foundation

ActiveCharity number SC039493
Registered8 April 2008
Main locationPerth And Kinross
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
SC039493
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
UK and overseas
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
29
Postcode
PH2 7JU

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The charity is set up to prevent and repair obstetric fistula in Africa.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of religion
  • the advancement of health
  • the saving of lives
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
  • the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
  • any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes

Beneficiaries

  • People with disabilities or health problems
  • Other defined groups
  • Other charities or voluntary bodies

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

For payment or application of the income of the Trust Fund or such part of it as the Trustees shall from time to time in their sole discretion decide and for payment or application of the capital of the Trust Fund or such part of it as the Trustees shall from time to time in their sole discretion decide (all whether in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland or elsewhere in the world but mainly in Liberia, Africa) to or for the following charitable purposes:- (a) the advancement of health. (b) the saving of lives. (c) the advancement of education. (d) the relief of those in need by reason of ill health. (e) the advancement of science. (f) the advancement of citizenship or community development. or (g) such other purposes, organisations or schemes as are charitable not falling under the preceding head that may reasonably be regarded as similar to any of the preceding purposes (any one or all of such funds, societies, organisations and schemes being individually or collectively referred to in this deed as 'charities') in such manner and in such shares and proportions and at such times as the Trustees shall in their sole discretion from time to time decide.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 December 2024£1,793,074£1,976,6572924 September 2025
31 December 2023£1,905,381£1,807,2892927 September 2024
31 December 2022£1,511,346£1,632,9662926 September 2023
31 December 2021£1,323,486£1,482,2792929 September 2022
31 December 2020£1,379,983£868,8272928 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
The Steading, Kinfauns, Perth
Website supplied to OSCR
www.freedomfromfistula.org.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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