OSCR Scottish charity profile

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

ActiveCharity number SC049712
Registered7 November 2019
Main locationOutwith Scotland
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC049712
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Cross Border
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Scotland and other parts of the UK
Volunteers
Not supplied
Staff
607
Postcode
YO30 6WP

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended
  • the advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation

Beneficiaries

  • Older People
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations

Constitutional objectives

1.1 to prevent and to relieve poverty and other necessitous circumstances 1.2 to relieve those in need because of youth, age, ill-health (whether mental or physical), disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage 1.3 to undertake and carry on such activities as are calculated to ameliorate unsatisfactory living conditions, social unrest or disharmony amongst the public 1.4 to provide or assist in the provision of facilities for recreation or other leisure time occupation in the interests of social welfare for the public at large. Nothing in these articles shall authorise an application of the property of the Charity for purposes which are not charitable in accordance with section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and/or section 2 of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 December 2025£36,523,000£79,151,0006073 August 2026
31 December 2024£35,057,000£57,115,00060726 August 2025
31 December 2023£35,981,000£49,179,00060718 September 2024
31 December 2022£37,363,000£45,467,0006075 September 2023
31 December 2021£34,225,000£45,207,00060729 September 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
The Homestead, 40 Water End, York
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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