01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC048007
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Cross Border
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- Scotland and other parts of the UK
- Volunteers
- Not supplied
- Staff
- 0
- Postcode
- EH1 2YT
OSCR note: This charity was established to replace Certain Charities Administered In Connection With The Scots Guards (SC038227) Certain Charities Administered In Connection With The Scots Guards (SC038227) has now wound up and passed its assets and liabilities to The Scots Guards Charity (SC048007) which is a Charitable Company
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
Charitable purposes
- the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Beneficiaries
- Children or young people
- Older People
- People with disabilities or health problems
- Other charities or voluntary bodies
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
3. Objects of the Charity 3.1 The objects of the Charity (the Objects) are for the public benefit:- to assist and provide relief to any serving or former serving officer, warrant officer, non-commissioned officer or guardsman, whether male or female, of the Regiment of the Scots Guards, or in exceptional circumstances any person associated with the Regiment of the Scots Guards, and their dependants, including but not exclusively, their spouses, partners, widows, widowers and parents (whether or not remarried) and children, parents or carers or similar persons who are in hardship or distress or need, whether such need is financial or otherwise. to support financially or otherwise those charities, whether the same be a military or civil charity, which in the opinion of the Trustees of the Charity directly or indirectly benefits those persons or persons referred to in 3.1.1 above or 3.1.3 below. to promote the efficiency of the Regiment of the Scots Guards in such charitable ways as the Trustees shall decide. and to further such other exclusively charitable purposes according to the law of England and Wales as the Trustees in their absolute discretion from time to time determine.
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 | £331,847 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £449,932 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 9 December 2025 |
| 31 March 2024 | £301,529 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £428,059 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 23 December 2024 |
| 31 March 2023 | £509,447 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £479,349 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 23 November 2023 |
| 31 March 2022 | £282,214 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £416,119 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 7 November 2022 |
| 31 March 2021 | £301,988 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £316,020 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 13 December 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
- Scots Guards Office, The Castle, Edinburgh
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.scotsguards.org
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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