OSCR Scottish charity profile

Kids Operating Room

Known as KidsOR

ActiveCharity number SC048523
Registered5 July 2018
Main locationCity of Edinburgh
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC048523
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
UK and overseas
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
37
Postcode
EH2 3ES

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

We work directly with Ministries of Health, local surgeons and their teams to transform operating rooms, pre-op and post-op rooms in their hospitals into dedicated spaces for children's surgery. All equipment needed is shipped from our warehouse in Dundee, Scotland. A team of KidsOR expert will meet the equipment when it arrives to help the local teams unload, set up and commission the medical equipment. Once the installation is finished, we keep in touch to offer any support needed with maintenance and replacement parts. We also provide surgical scholarships as well as specialised training for paediatric surgeons, anaesthetists, nurses and biomedical engineers around the world.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of health
  • the saving of lives

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people
  • People with disabilities or health problems

Activities

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

Constitutional objectives

2.1 The Company's charitable purposes are the advancement of health and saving of lives by equipping, constructing, and/or in any other way supporting surgical facilities for the provision of safe surgery for children throughout the world. This may extend to procuring equipment, maintaining facilities previously supported and/or providing training to those persons responsible for using any such facility. the collection and assessment of data for the purposes of reporting on impact. and/or such other related charitable objects as the company in its sole discretion may determine. The Company operates on a non-profit basis.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 December 2025£9,520,644£10,351,0313729 July 2026
31 December 2024£10,622,493£7,196,3143727 August 2025
31 December 2023£5,776,327£7,765,849376 June 2024
31 December 2022£7,117,411£4,233,736378 June 2023
31 December 2021£20,247,613£20,212,8743712 May 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
3rd Floor , 107 George Street, Edinburgh
Website supplied to OSCR
www.kidsor.org
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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