The Record · Global Charity Index

Scottish charity registrations and financial filings

Search the Scottish regulator’s dated public snapshot. Read reported income and spending, and compare selected charities filed with two regulators.

This edition includes 24,994 Scottish registration numbers. 22,532 have at least one included annual return, and 21,496 have more than one. The 100,514 included returns have year-ends from 2010-03-31 through 2026-10-31. These dates come from the records in the regulator’s five-year download.

Compare records across two regulators

Some charities appear in both Scotland and England and Wales. These three examples have public evidence linking both registration numbers. For each charity, the table pairs three identical year-ends across the two regulator extracts. 8 of the 9 paired rows agree on both headline amounts. 3 have the same receipt date.

Use each matched charity once when counting organizations. Adding both published figures would risk counting the same income or spending twice. The Scottish export supplies the year-end. The England and Wales file also supplies the period start. Exact consolidation scope requires the original accounts.

Save the Children Fund

Scotland SC039570 · England and Wales 213890 · Source confirming both registrations

Save the Children Fund · regulator figures in GBP
Year endedScotlandEngland and WalesDifference in headline figures
2025-12-31 Income £262,508,000
Expenditure £275,822,000
Received 2026-07-24 · record 59661
Income £262,508,000
Expenditure £275,822,000
Period start 2025-01-01
Received 2026-07-24 · record 29933
Income and expenditure agree.
2024-12-31 Income £304,834,000
Expenditure £308,810,973
Received 2025-08-26 · record 59662
Income £304,834,000
Expenditure £308,810,973
Period start 2024-01-01
Received 2025-08-26 · record 29932
Income and expenditure agree.
2023-12-31 Income £296,015,000
Expenditure £295,425,000
Received 2024-08-21 · record 59663
Income £296,015,000
Expenditure £295,425,000
Period start 2023-01-01
Received 2024-08-21 · record 29931
Income and expenditure agree.

British Red Cross Society

Scotland SC037738 · England and Wales 220949 · Source confirming both registrations

British Red Cross Society · regulator figures in GBP
Year endedScotlandEngland and WalesDifference in headline figures
2025-12-31 Income £293,500,000
Expenditure £304,700,000
Received 2026-07-21 · record 54760
Income £293,500,000
Expenditure £304,700,000
Period start 2025-01-01
Received 2026-09-11 · record 43701
Income and expenditure agree.
2024-12-31 Income £287,100,000
Expenditure £310,300,000
Received 2025-07-21 · record 54761
Income £287,100,000
Expenditure £310,300,000
Period start 2024-01-01
Received 2025-09-08 · record 43700
Income and expenditure agree.
2023-12-31 Income £330,600,000
Expenditure £322,700,000
Received 2024-07-23 · record 54762
Income £330,600,000
Expenditure £322,700,000
Period start 2023-01-01
Received 2024-08-29 · record 43699
Income and expenditure agree.

Oxfam GB

Scotland SC039042 · England and Wales 202918 · Source confirming both registrations

Oxfam GB · regulator figures in GBP
Year endedScotlandEngland and WalesDifference in headline figures
2025-03-31 Income £339,336,903
Expenditure £362,636,196
Received 2025-12-16 · record 58200
Income £339,366,903
Expenditure £362,636,196
Period start 2024-04-01
Received 2025-12-18 · record 6584

Income is £30,000 higher in England and Wales.

Expenditure agrees.

2024-03-31 Income £368,000,000
Expenditure £396,400,000
Received 2024-12-18 · record 58201
Income £368,000,000
Expenditure £396,400,000
Period start 2023-04-01
Received 2025-01-30 · record 6583
Income and expenditure agree.
2023-03-31 Income £400,600,000
Expenditure £360,400,000
Received 2023-12-19 · record 58202
Income £400,600,000
Expenditure £360,400,000
Period start 2022-04-01
Received 2024-01-29 · record 6582
Income and expenditure agree.

The Oxfam GB consolidated accounts give 2024–25 income as £339.4 million. The England and Wales figure rounds to that amount at the precision shown. The Scotland figure rounds to £339.3 million. The accounts give spending as £362.6 million, which both exports match at that precision. The reason for the exact income difference remains unknown.

Record numbers count from the first data record after the header. Use the Scottish return export and the England and Wales history export to check them. Download the exact paired rows and source fingerprints.

Coverage, gaps and original files

The two Scottish downloads are dated . The registry supplies the legal name, the regulator’s status and classification, and the published geography fields. The main location describes a head office or main operating location. The spread is a broad reported category. Spending by location and the places where services were delivered require other sources.

  • 7,380 of 107,905 return-export records lacked a receipt date. 6,209 of those supplied a year-end.
  • 7 records had a receipt date before the year-end.
  • 4 records gave competing submissions for 2 registration and year-end pairs. The export supplied no basis for choosing between them.

Those records are outside the financial history shown here. The manifest gives the exact record numbers for chronological errors and conflicts. All registration numbers remain searchable.

Amounts stay in pounds sterling. Included headline amounts of zero or less are shown as reported. The optional breakdowns show Standard returns where the respective income or spending field group contains a nonzero figure. Entirely zero groups remain unavailable because this extract does not distinguish a reported all-zero breakdown from an unfilled one. 9,932 included returns show an income breakdown and 9,923 show a spending breakdown. Their scope and any difference from the headline figures should be checked in the accounts.

© Crown Copyright and database right 2026. Contains information from the Scottish Charity Register supplied by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator and licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. See the source and use terms, including the limit on direct marketing. Charitology selected the public registration and financial fields, reformatted dates and linked them by exact registration number. Check the current regulator lookup for amendments, registration status and original accounts.

Sources

  1. Download the Scottish Charity Register and five-year returns · Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator
  2. Description of Charity Register download fields · Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator
  3. Reporting for cross-border charities · Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator
  4. Full register and annual return history · Charity Commission for England and Wales
  5. Open Government Licence v3.0 · The National Archives