# Edinburgh Children&#x27;s Hospital Charity

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC020862
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)
- **Registered:** Dec. 7, 1992
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC020862


## Contact

- **Address:** c/o RHCYP &amp; DCN Building, 50 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh
- **Postcode:** EH16 4TJ
- **Website:** www.echcharity.org



## 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 advancement of health&#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:** ECHC provides seriously ill children and their families with the extra support they need when facing a potentially life-changing hospital visit. We&#x27;re speeding up recovery, taking away fear, providing reassurance, distraction and fun every step of the way.

**Beneficiaries:** &#x27;Children or young people&#x27;,&#x27;People with disabilities or health problems&#x27;

**Objectives:** The objects of the Charity are:- (a)	to support the aims and work of the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, Edinburgh on its present or any other site on which it may operate in the future (&#x27;the Hospital&#x27;) and to relieve the sickness, ill health, distress and suffering of children who are patients in the Hospital and in the community.





## Geography

- **Main operating location:** City of Edinburgh
- **Geographical spread:** One or a few bases or facilities serving people who come from a broad area







