OSCR Scottish charity profile

The Newspaper Press Fund

Known as Journalists' Charity

ActiveCharity number SC042405
Registered24 June 2011
Main locationOutwith Scotland
Legal formStatutory corporation (Royal Charter etc)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC042405
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Cross Border
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
UK and overseas
Volunteers
Not supplied
Staff
8
Postcode
RH4 3EX

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

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
  • Older People
  • Other defined groups

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

3.3. 1 To help journalists and their dependants who meet the eligibility criteria who, because of sickness, accident or other unforeseen circumstance, need help. 3.3.2 To give help to those who meet the criteria but have left journalism as well as the dependants of journalists. 3.3.3 To meet a need rather than preserve a particular lifestyle and we cannot subsidise those who, in the long-term, find it difficult to make a living from journalism unless through illness or other misfortune. 3.3.4 Help may be in the form or cash grants or accommodation.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 December 2024£851,000£895,000821 August 2025
31 December 2023£768,000£892,000828 August 2024
31 December 2022£587,000£817,000826 June 2023
31 December 2021£1,168,000£803,00087 October 2022
31 December 2018£965,000£1,948,00087 October 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
Journalists' Charity, 11 Ribblesdale, Roman Road, Dorking
Website supplied to OSCR
www.journalistscharity.org.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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