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Postcode Care Trust

Country
Scotland
Charity number
SC042667
Status
Active
Reporting
Up to date Last filed Sept. 3, 2026. Filing history
Registered
Oct. 19, 2011
Legal form
Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)

Address

Address
28 Charlotte Square
Edinburgh
EH2 4ET

Contact

Activities

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

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

Postcode Care Trust's mission is to improve the health and lives of communities. The Trust supports charities and good causes with those purposes through grant funding for charitable activities across Great Britain. Postcode Care Trust operates its own society lottery and receives all of its funding from the players of Postcode Lottery.

Beneficiaries: 'Other charities or voluntary bodies'

Objectives: The Company is incorporated for charitable objects and purposes only with the intention of providing public benefit in Scotland or elsewhere, and in particular the Company is established to advance health and provide relief of those in need by reason of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship of others disadvantaged by supporting activities which: 3.1 improve the lives of children and young people, and the communities in which they live. and 3.2 maintain and advance the health of communities

Geography

Main operating location
City of Edinburgh
Geographical spread
UK and overseas

Finances

Period end Filed Income Expenditure
Dec. 31, 2025 Sept. 3, 2026On time £49,243,977 £50,195,979
Dec. 31, 2024 Sept. 3, 2025On time £49,367,848 £50,736,399
Dec. 31, 2023 Sept. 17, 2024On time £42,090,417 £39,451,160
Dec. 31, 2022 Aug. 14, 2023On time £30,585,751 £31,068,604
Dec. 31, 2021 July 13, 2022On time £29,361,844 £25,185,793
Dec. 31, 2020 Sept. 15, 2021 £8,305,519 £8,606,374

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