OSCR Scottish charity profile

Prisoners Week Trust

ActiveCharity number SC043431
Registered21 September 2012
Main locationCity of Edinburgh
Legal formTrust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 4 November 2026
OSCR charity number
SC043431
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Operations cover all or most of Scotland
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
EH55 8RT

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

It is responsible for the support and development of an annual event called Prisoners Week held in November each year. At the Launch, a public gathering, we encourage people to remember in their thoughts and prayers prisoners and their families, the victims of crime, prison staff and all those working in the criminal justice community.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of religion
  • the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended
  • the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Beneficiaries

  • Other defined groups
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Activities

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

Constitutional objectives

The relief of those in need by virtue of imprisonment. the advancement of conflict resolution or reconciliation, the advancement of citizenship and the advancement of religion.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endTotal incomeDonationsCharitable activities incomeTrading incomeInvestment incomeOther incomeTotal expenditureRaising fundsCharitable activities spendingOther spendingStaffReturn received
31 March 2026£8,053£0£0£0£0£0£2,139£0£0£001 October 2026
31 March 2025£1,134£0£0£0£0£0£1,588£0£0£003 October 2025
31 March 2024£770£0£0£0£0£0£1,181£0£0£0030 September 2024
31 March 2023£3,524£0£0£0£0£0£4,267£0£0£0012 September 2023
31 March 2022£3,561£0£0£0£0£0£648£0£0£0012 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
Coalheughead Farmhouse, Harburn
Website supplied to OSCR
www.prisonersweek.org.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied
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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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