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The Fostering Network

Country
Scotland
Charity number
SC039338
Status
Active
Reporting
Up to date Last filed Dec. 17, 2025. Filing history
Registered
Feb. 23, 2008
Legal form
Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)

Address

Address
The Fostering Network
87 Blackfriars Road
London
SE1 8HA

Contact

Website
fostering.net

Activities

'It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals','It carries out activities or services itself'

'the advancement of education','the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage'

Beneficiaries: 'Children or young people','Other defined groups'

Objectives: The objects for which the Fostering Network is estblished are:- A. To relieve by such means as are chariatble children in the aged and persons suffering from mental or physical disability who by reason of their circumstances have need of foster or substitute care B. To promote and organise co-operation in achieving the improvement of the quality of service given to children and others in care and to that end bring together in the Fostering Network foster carers representatives of the authorities and organisations engaged in advancing foster care and relieving distress of children and others in care and to assist their work.

Geography

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

Finances

Period end Filed Income Expenditure Employees
March 31, 2025 Dec. 17, 2025On time £9,359,081 £7,968,070 105
March 31, 2024 Jan. 14, 202514 days late £8,411,919 £7,692,392 102
March 31, 2023 Feb. 16, 202447 days late £6,878,008 £7,129,090 86
March 31, 2022 Dec. 30, 2022On time £6,661,807 £6,816,281 84
March 31, 2021 Dec. 16, 2021On time £6,429,919 £6,477,750 87

Due dates are 9 months after the year end, OSCR's deadline, so they don't allow for any extension OSCR has granted.