OSCR Scottish charity profile

The Low Family Charity Foundation SCIO

ActiveCharity number SC052418
Registered20 March 2023
Main locationEast Lothian
Legal formSCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC052418
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
More than one local authority area in Scotland
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
EH41 3DH

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Provide monetary grants to individuals, families and organisations in the local community who may need help due to ill health, poverty, impacted by the cost of living crisis or disadvantaged in any way. This could be a grant for food, funding for heating, respite for carers and or patients, a holiday, travel costs to attend hospital, or to support activities of daily living due to ill health, to support with accessing education, hobbies or pursuing a career, music or sport for young adults from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of health
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • the advancement of public participation in sport
  • 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 relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Beneficiaries

  • Other defined groups

Activities

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

Constitutional objectives

1The organisation?s purposes are: the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage the advancement of education, sporting opportunities and recreational activities for young people the advancement of health and medical research the advancement of citizenship or community development The charity will administer grants and donations to those predominantly in Edinburgh and Lothians, though where a cause is identified that meets the charitable objects outside this geographical location, consideration will be made to these requests.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

3 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2026£0£00Not supplied
31 March 2025£29,340£8,210020 July 2026
31 March 2024£75,000£20,030027 May 2025

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
5 Souness View, Haddington
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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