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The Benevolent Fund For Nurses In Scotland

Country
Scotland
Charity number
SC006384
Status
Active
Registered
March 5, 1938
Legal form
Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)

Address

Address
Mitchell Edwards
Chartered Certified Accountants
24a Ainslie Place
Edinburgh
EH3 6AJ

Contact

Website
bfns.org.uk

Activities

'It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals'

'the prevention or relief of poverty'

The objective of the Benevolent Fund for Nurses in Scotland is to support nurses in their own homes within the communities to which they belong. The fund works with other agencies in providing financial help with equipment and home adaptations and in providing quarterly and single grants. The fund seeks to care for those who have given care to so many others.

Beneficiaries: 'Other defined groups'

Objectives: The objects of the Company are to promote and advance for public benefit, such purposes as are charitable in law and in particular the prevention or relief of poverty for registered nurses and midwives, or student nurses and midwives in necessitous circumstances, who have a substantial connection with Scotland.

Geography

Main operating location
City of Edinburgh
Geographical spread
Scotland and other parts of the UK

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure Employees
Dec. 31, 2025 £288,317 £290,756 1
Dec. 31, 2024 £290,087 £292,336 1
Dec. 31, 2023 £286,518 £284,194 1
Dec. 31, 2022 £283,218 £284,153 1
Dec. 31, 2021 £254,394 £257,504 1
Dec. 31, 2020 £238,611 £244,545 1