OSCR Scottish charity profile

The Maidsafe Foundation

ActiveCharity number SC042032
Registered20 January 2011
Main locationSouth Ayrshire
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
SC042032
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Operations cover all or most of Scotland
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
2
Postcode
KA10 6LY

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Continue to improve STEM school & home education packs, to work in schools and online delivering STEM workshops and to attend outdoor events.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education
  • 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

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

For the creation of opportunity through innovation and education in so far as such objects or object may be defined as being charitable for the purposes of Section 505 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 and Sections 7 and 8 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and any statutory modification or re-enactment thereof for the time being in force including without prejudice to the generality: 2.1 the advancement of education. 2.2 the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture, sports or science. 2.3 the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage. or such one of more of these as the Trustees in their sole and absolute discretion may from time to time determine, and for any other charitable purpose or purposes recognised as such by the Law of Scotland which the Trustees in their sole and absolute discretion consider would have been acceptable to us,

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£28,272£47,476230 December 2025
31 March 2024£8,679£38,278217 December 2024
31 March 2023£77,047£15,673229 December 2023
31 March 2022£10,926£15,875230 December 2022
31 March 2021£6,598£14,839230 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
62 Brassie Street, Troon, Ayrshire
Website supplied to OSCR
https://maidsafe.foundation/
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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