OSCR Scottish charity profile

Bauer Radio's Cash for Kids Charities (Scotland)

Known as MFR Cash for Kids- Radio Forths Cash for Kids- Radio Tays Cash for Kids- Northsound Cash for Kids- Radio Borders Cash for Kids

ActiveCharity number SC041421
Registered22 April 2010
Main locationCity of Edinburgh
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC041421
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
More than one local authority area in Scotland
Volunteers
over 250 volunteers
Staff
13
Postcode
EH1 3AS

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Cash for Kids aims to improve the lives of disadvantaged children and young people across the UK. Their mission is to be there when children need them most, combatting poverty, illness, and neglect, easing the daily reality of additional needs, and ensuring every child has the opportunity to thrive

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

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations

Constitutional objectives

The objects of the Company will be such charitable purposes as the trustees from time to time think fit, and in particular the relief of those in need by virtue of their youth by the provision of charitable support to sick or underprivileged children in Scotland ('the Objects').

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 December 2025£4,924,832£4,910,072136 August 2026
31 December 2024£4,520,665£4,860,092137 August 2025
31 December 2023£4,555,416£4,562,035132 September 2024
31 December 2022£4,670,551£4,621,7201322 August 2023
31 December 2021£5,121,488£4,661,8821328 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
Forth 1 and 2, 30 Leith Street, Edinburgh
Website supplied to OSCR
www.cashforkids.org.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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