OSCR Scottish charity profile

Charity Projects

Known as Comic Relief

ActiveCharity number SC039730
Registered16 July 2008
Main locationOutwith Scotland
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC039730
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Cross Border
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
UK and overseas
Volunteers
Not supplied
Staff
155
Postcode
E1 8QS

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 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

  • Other charities or voluntary bodies

Activities

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

Constitutional objectives

(i) the relief of poverty. (ii) the advancement of education by means of the encouragement of the arts for the public benefit. (iii) the provision of facilities for recreation or other leisure time occupations in the interests of social welfare provided that such facilities are for the public benefit and (lv) the promotion of any other charitable purpose for the benefit of the public

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 July 2025£51,139,000£49,858,00015514 April 2026
31 July 2024£53,767,000£46,226,0001552 January 2025
31 July 2023£50,752,000£51,322,00015522 December 2023
31 July 2022£49,991,000£44,267,00015522 February 2023
31 July 2021£74,079,000£86,197,00015530 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
Comic Relief, 6th Floor , White Chapel Building , 10 Whitechapel High Street , London
Website supplied to OSCR
www.comicrelief.com
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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