# Scottish Fire and Rescue Service Family Support Trust SCIO

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC043924
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
- **Registered:** April 10, 2013
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC043924


## Contact

- **Address:** Scottish Fire and Rescue Service HQ, Westburn Drive, Cambuslang, Glasgow
- **Postcode:** G72 7NA
- **Website:** sfrs-familysupport.org.uk



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals&#x27;,&#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended&#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 support and assistance to Serving and Retired  Fire Service personnel and their families at times of difficulty and need.

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

**Objectives:** The SCIO’s purposes are to assist Beneficiaries (as defined in clause 111 below), who are in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage, by means of grants, information, advice and support and / or the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for Beneficiaries and their families, for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended, or otherwise. all by taking over and assuming the whole assets and liabilities and generally the whole undertaking of the charity know as the “Strathclyde Fire and Rescue Family  support Trust”, charity number SC024296, (“the Previous Charity”) with a view to managing, discharging and generally dealing with the same in furtherance of the SCIO’s purposes thereafter and over a transitional period offering assistance initially to Beneficiaries that were also beneficiaries of the Previous Charity and expanding over time to offer assistance to the wider group of Beneficiaries.





## Geography

- **Main operating location:** Glasgow City
- **Geographical spread:** UK and overseas






