OSCR Scottish charity profile

Friends of Kuunika Foundation

Known as UK Friends of Kuunika Foundation

ActiveCharity number SC040485
Registered13 May 2009
Main locationCity of Edinburgh
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
SC040485
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
UK and overseas
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
BR1 3ER

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Friends of Kuunika Foundation has been set up to assist the charity Kuunika Foundation Malawi in supporting orphans and vulnerable children and their communities in Malawi, South-East Africa.

Charitable purposes

  • the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

3.1 The Trustees shall hold the capital and income of the Trust Fund upon trust for the relief of poverty distress or suffering in Malawi by providing financial assistance to the Kuunika Foundation of PO box 3459 Blantyre Malawi ('Kuunika') and promoting such of the work of Kuunika as is exclusively charitable 3.2 The Trustees shall not apply any part of the Trust Fund directly in relief of public funds, but may apply the whole or any part of the Trust Fund in supplementing public funds. 3.3 The Trustees may, in their discretion, for the period of 21 years from the date of this Deed, instead of applying the income of the Charity in any year, accumulate all or any part of such income by investing the same, and the resulting income, in any authorised investments and shall hold the same as an accretion to and as part of the capital of the Charity, without prejudice to their right to apply the whole or any part of such accumulated income in any subsequent year as if the same were income of the Charity arising in the then current year.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2026£7,981£7,204013 June 2026
31 March 2025£7,326£8,400027 June 2025
31 March 2024£10,144£10,76704 August 2024
31 March 2023£10,689£11,341015 May 2023
31 March 2022£6,863£6,86706 June 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
166 Palace View, Bromley, London
Website supplied to OSCR
https://www.facebook.com/Kuunika-Foundation-223993410970103/
Parent charity
Kuunika Foundation

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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