OSCR Scottish charity profile

Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation

Known as CISWO

ActiveCharity number SC039529
Registered21 April 2008
Main locationOutwith Scotland
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
SC039529
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Cross Border
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Scotland and other parts of the UK
Volunteers
Not supplied
Staff
58
Postcode
S60 4JG

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of health
  • 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

Beneficiaries

  • Other defined groups

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 of the Charity are the promotion of health .the relief of poverty and hardship and the advancement of education (including social and physical training activities which are charitable by virtue of section 1 of the Recreational Charities Act 1958) and any other charitable purpose for the benefit of employees and former employees of the coal mining industry in the United Kingdom employed in or formerly employed in any present or past coal mining area of the United Kingdom and of their relatives and dependants and of the communities in which they live within those areas

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 December 2025£0£058Not supplied
31 December 2024£2,044,277£3,342,2425820 June 2025
31 December 2023£2,285,368£3,494,3625812 September 2024
31 December 2022£1,670,581£3,810,1935821 June 2023
31 December 2021£2,887,652£3,317,688588 September 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
The Old Rectory, Rectory Drive, Whiston, Rotherham, South Yorkshire
Website supplied to OSCR
www.ciswo.org.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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