# The Benevolent Fund For Nurses In Scotland

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC006384
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)
- **Registered:** March 5, 1938
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC006384


## Contact

- **Address:** Mitchell Edwards, Chartered Certified Accountants, 24a Ainslie Place, Edinburgh
- **Postcode:** EH3 6AJ
- **Website:** www.bfns.org.uk



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the prevention or relief of poverty&#x27;

**What the charity does:** 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:** &#x27;Other defined groups&#x27;

**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







