01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC047577
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- UK and overseas
- Volunteers
- 1-50 volunteers
- Staff
- 0
- Postcode
- EH3 6NN
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
This charity is dedicated to supporting communities in West Africa affected by the Ebola outbreak. Its main objectives are to preserve health, relieve poverty, and protect vulnerable children. It provides grants, essential items, and services to those impacted, offering food, shelter, and education to children orphaned by the virus. The charity also works to prevent child exploitation and abuse. To achieve these goals, it is funding a £1.4m, 100 room orphanage and school in Sierra Leone while supporting welfare, education, and child protection initiatives through grants and aid to the most deprived communities in the region.
Charitable purposes
- the prevention or relief of poverty
- the advancement of health
Beneficiaries
- Children or young people
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
For the public benefit the relief of sickness and the preservation of health of people having suffered from the Ebola virus living in West Africa. For the public benefit to relieve poverty among children living in West Africa by providing grants, items, services and education to children effected by the Ebola virus and by building and maintaining homes to provide a stable home environment where the children will be cared for and protected from sexual violence and exploitation
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 June 2025 | £148,600 | £146,760 | 0 | 11 January 2026 |
| 30 June 2024 | £187,631 | £184,631 | 0 | 19 March 2025 |
| 30 June 2023 | £171,910 | £170,510 | 0 | 27 March 2024 |
| 30 June 2022 | £212,475 | £208,675 | 0 | 29 March 2023 |
| 30 June 2021 | £181,541 | £179,526 | 0 | 30 March 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
- 26 Dublin Street, Edinburgh
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.ebolaactionsupport.org
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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