01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC046657
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- UK and overseas
- Volunteers
- 1-50 volunteers
- Staff
- 0
- Postcode
- EH3 5PA
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
The South African Children’s Charitable Trust (SACCT) is established to support vulnerable children and young people, primarily in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, by improving access to education, care, and opportunities for a brighter future. We work in partnership with trusted local organisations, including iKhethelo Children’s Village, to provide safe living environments, educational support, and holistic care. Our activities include funding school fees, uniforms, and learning resources. supporting education, residential care and wellbeing programs. and enabling skills development initiatives that empower young people to become independent and resilient. We raise funds through donations, events, and partnerships and ensure that support is delivered directly where it is most needed, creating lasting, positive impact for children, their families, and wider communities.
Charitable purposes
- the prevention or relief of poverty
- the advancement of health
- the advancement of citizenship or community development
- 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 or gifts to organisations
Constitutional objectives
The Trustees shall hold the Trust Fund for Charitable Purposes exclusively. declaring without prejudice to the foregoing generality that the Trustees may apply the Trust Fund exclusively for any or all of the following Charitable Purposes namely:- 3.1 For the purposes of benefitting the public and in particular but without prejudice to the generality of that purpose through preventing and relieving poverty, advancing health, advancing citizenship and community development and assisting children who are in need due to being orphaned, in Scotland, the United Kingdom and abroad, and through the assistance of Charities which support these purposes. or 3.2 For the benefit of such one or more Charity or Charities as the Trustees in their uncontrolled discretion may decide. or 3.3 For the implementation or assistance in implementing any Charitable Purpose or purposes as the Trustees in their uncontrolled discretion may decide.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Total income | Donations | Charitable activities income | Trading income | Investment income | Other income | Total expenditure | Raising funds | Charitable activities spending | Other spending | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2025 | £1,876 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £14,855 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 19 March 2026 |
| 31 March 2024 | £19,748 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £22,440 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 21 October 2024 |
| 31 March 2023 | £11,366 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £23,002 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 19 September 2023 |
| 31 March 2022 | £21,533 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £21,692 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 30 November 2022 |
| 31 March 2021 | £12,684 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £10,325 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 15 October 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
- 96 Inverleith Place, Edinburgh
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.sachildrenscharity.org.uk
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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