OSCR Scottish charity profile

The Ebola Action Support

ActiveCharity number SC047577
Registered14 July 2017
Main locationCity of Edinburgh
Legal formSCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
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

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
30 June 2025£148,600£146,760011 January 2026
30 June 2024£187,631£184,631019 March 2025
30 June 2023£171,910£170,510027 March 2024
30 June 2022£212,475£208,675029 March 2023
30 June 2021£181,541£179,526030 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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