# Royal British Legion Scotland SCIO

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC003323
- **Known as:** Legion Scotland
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
- **Registered:** July 31, 1950
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC003323


## Contact

- **Address:** New Haig House, Logie Green Road, Edinburgh
- **Postcode:** EH7 4HQ
- **Website:** www.legionscotland.org.uk



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals&#x27;,&#x27;It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations&#x27;,&#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the prevention or relief of poverty&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of citizenship or community development&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of public participation in sport&#x27;,&#x27;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&#x27;,&#x27;the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage&#x27;,&#x27;any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes&#x27;

**What the charity does:** SUPPORT EX SERVICE PERSONNEL.

**Objectives:** 3.	CHARITABLE PURPOSES and PRINCIPLES  The purposes of RBLS are the advancement of education through Remembrance. the relief of those in need through Benevolence. and the promotion of community development through Comradeship. all as follows: 3.1	Remembrance - perpetuating the memory of all service and civilian personnel who have fallen in service of their Country and to commemorate those who fell, of all faiths, races, and creeds.  3.2 Benevolence  – to reduce the financial need of veterans’ including their dependents, on a needs led basis.  3.3	 Comradeship – including wellbeing and welfare within the veteran and wider community, increasing morale, by holding social events to help prevent isolation.  3.4	In principle RBLS recognises all who have served the Crown and their dependents as one family regardless of service, unit, rank, length of service, nationality, gender, race, faith or social status.





## Areas of operation

- **Main operating location:** City of Edinburgh
- **Geographical spread:** Operations cover all or most of Scotland






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