01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC052304
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- Wider, but within one local authority area
- Volunteers
- 51-100 volunteers
- Staff
- 2
- Postcode
- EH16 5HW
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
Our efforts continue to gain traction and increase outreach and impact. We continue to learn. Based on articulated needs and interests, we trialled new activity elements and approaches proposed and led by people in their later years. Our approach advances and supports older people, fostering relationships, increasing social connections and community building, with their mental, physical, and spiritual health and wellbeing a priority. Our second full year of operation has achieved a basket of well used activities which continued 6 established and popular groups, one (digital inclusion) being run across 5 locations during the year. We introduced 2 new groups, all bringing increased numbers of participants, volunteers and critically an ownership of the ideas and principles of self-motivated ageing in communities of interest and in neighbourhoods. Two other craft activities are being morphed into a participant led group in Year 3.
Charitable purposes
- the advancement of education
- the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Beneficiaries
- Older People
- No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
Activities
- It carries out activities or services itself
Constitutional objectives
The organisation's charitable purposes is the advancement of education and the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage by: - supporting positive models to enable older people to be active in the local community and society - providing pastoral care to improve their mental and spiritual well-being and their condition of life -involving faith communities in working together to offer social activities and events interacting with other agencies to provide information and other forms of support for older people. and - promoting and encouraging the training and education of people so that they may develop skills to assist older people.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 February 2026 | £74,472 | £63,482 | 2 | 30 June 2026 |
| 28 February 2025 | £53,965 | £66,091 | 2 | 8 July 2025 |
| 29 February 2024 | £64,883 | £15,262 | 2 | 3 July 2024 |
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
- Southside Faith Centre, Newington Trinity Church Priestfield, 2 Marchhall Place, Edinburgh
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.southsidefaithcare.org
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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