# Kind - Scotland (Kids In Need &amp; Distress)

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC020746
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
- **Registered:** Nov. 6, 1992
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC020746


## Contact

- **Address:** 9 Rhyolite Way, Barrhead, Glasgow
- **Postcode:** G78 2FY



## Activities

**Activities:** &#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 education&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of citizenship or community development&#x27;,&#x27;the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage&#x27;

**What the charity does:** To provide help to Kids In Need and Distress primarily in the West of Scotland, and by doing so help them know that someone cares for them. We do this through support for food at Christmas, assistance with school uniforms, the provision of beds and bedding to help alleviate bed poverty and flexibly by other means was the need arises.

**Objectives:** The purpose of the Trust is to raise Funds by us as Trustees, and by our successors in office,  as such Trustees for the purpose of providing, or assisting in ~he  provision of, facilities for recreation and other leisure time  occupation, of children and young&#x27;persons who are in conditions of need, hardship or distress by the provision of holidays or outings with the objects of educating and assisting them to develop their physical, mental and spiritual welfare or such other charitable) , purpose (in the sense in which that expression is used in the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988) as we in our uncontrolled discretion shall from time to time think fit. DeC1aring that without prejudice to the foregoing generality we, as Trustees, may in our uncontrolled discretion make donations and transfers to any Organisation, Trust, Body or Foundation having charitable status to be applied by such Organisation, Trust, Body or Foundation in accordance with its purposes.





## Areas of operation

- **Main operating location:** Glasgow City
- **Geographical spread:** More than one local authority area in Scotland






