01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC048599
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- Wider, but within one local authority area
- Volunteers
- 0 volunteers
- Staff
- 0
- Postcode
- EH105TZ
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
Our main activity is hosting healthy, home-cooked meals in churches across the city of Edinburgh and also, recently in Livingston. We assist churches to set up a service to provide hot meals to individuals in poverty or at risk of poverty, or who are in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage. The charity can assist with advice, training and recruitment of volunteers to help establish these meals and then provide continuing assistance, and where required, additional funding, to help the churches continue their meal provision. We partner with other organisations to provide signposting in relation to accommodation, community support, employment, skills training and debt advice.
Charitable purposes
- the prevention or relief of poverty
- the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Beneficiaries
- Other defined groups
- Other charities or voluntary bodies
Activities
- It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
- It carries out activities or services itself
Constitutional objectives
4 The charity is established to assist individuals in poverty or at risk of poverty, or who are in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage by providing hot meals, accommodation, community support, sign-posting support, employment and skills training and drop-in cafes for such people whether they are homeless or otherwise vulnerable or in need and by providing such other support services as the trustees in their sole discretion consider appropriate, including (but not limited to) the provision of meals, clothing, education and guidance.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2025 | £83,999 | £71,199 | 0 | 4 December 2025 |
| 31 March 2024 | £64,725 | £52,224 | 0 | 26 November 2024 |
| 31 March 2023 | £66,090 | £71,331 | 0 | 23 November 2023 |
| 31 March 2022 | £38,613 | £44,775 | 0 | 18 November 2022 |
| 31 March 2021 | £48,739 | £35,106 | 0 | 29 November 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
- 44/6 Craighouse Gardens, Edinburgh
- Website supplied to OSCR
- https://www.soulfoodedinburgh.org/
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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