OSCR Scottish charity profile

Youth for Economic Justice

Known as YEJ

ActiveCharity number SC043089
Registered17 April 2012
Main locationMidlothian
Legal formSCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC043089
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Overseas only
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
EH26 0NB

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Our mission is to overcome economic injustice by inspiring and supporting women and young people in economically distressed communities to engage in socially-relevant entrepreneurship that stimulates and sustains local economies. How do we help? ? By providing much needed training and resources for enterprise development, vocational skills, financial literacy and life skills. ? By empowering young people to have a voice in their community and influence the decisions that affect their lives and businesses. ? By helping increase fair access to credit, formal financial services and financial information. ? By ensuring a more supportive and enabling policy, legal and regulatory environment for enterprise development by young men and women. ? By strengthening links between young entrepreneurs and their markets.

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • the promotion of equality and diversity
  • 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 carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

4.1 the prevention and relief of poverty of youth in the UK, Africa and other parts of the developing world, through developing their ability to engage in sustainable employment and/or in running their own enterprise and access to investment funding and other relevant resources. 4.2 the promotion of equality and diversity in the UK, Africa and other parts of the developing world, by ensuring that young women, as well as young men, have the opportunity to become active micro-entrepreneurs or wage workers. 4.3 the advancement of citizenship or community development by empowering and strengthening community based organisations in order that they, in partnership with distressed communities, respond more effectively and sustainably to the needs of young people in their local communities in the UK, Africa and other parts of the developing world. 4.4 the relief of those in need by reason of age, and/or financial hardship by develop young people's basic knowledge and management skills in finance for both their personal and business financial goals. and providing access to investment funding and other relevant resources for communities in the UK, Africa and other parts of the developing world. 4.5 the advancement of education among young people in the UK, Africa and other parts of the developing world, in particular, although not exclusively, young women, through education and training programmes to develop their basic knowledge and management skills for economically viable entrepreneurship.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
30 April 2025£2,000£2,237029 January 2026
30 April 2024£0£304029 January 2025
30 April 2023£5,750£6,314030 January 2024
30 April 2022£50£6,989019 January 2023
30 April 2021£1,000£6,147025 January 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
17 Trelawney Terrace, Penicuik, Midlothian
Website supplied to OSCR
www.yej.org.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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