# Southside Faith Care

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC052304
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
- **Registered:** Feb. 3, 2023
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC052304


## Contact

- **Address:** Southside Faith Centre, Newington Trinity Church Priestfield, 2 Marchhall Place, Edinburgh
- **Postcode:** EH16 5HW
- **Website:** www.southsidefaithcare.org



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the advancement of education&#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:** Our efforts continue to gain traction and increase outreach and impact. We continue to learn.  Based on articulated needs and interests, we trialled new activity elements and approaches  proposed and led by people in their later years. Our approach advances and supports older  people, fostering relationships, increasing social connections and community building, with  their mental, physical, and spiritual health and wellbeing a priority.   Our second full year of operation has achieved a basket of well used activities which continued  6 established and popular groups, one (digital inclusion) being run across 5 locations during  the year.  We introduced 2 new groups, all bringing increased numbers of participants,  volunteers and critically an ownership of the ideas and principles of self-motivated ageing in  communities of interest and in neighbourhoods.  Two other craft activities are being morphed  into a participant led group in Year 3.

**Beneficiaries:** &#x27;Older People&#x27;,&#x27;No specific group, or for the benefit of the community&#x27;

**Objectives:** The organisation&#x27;s charitable purposes is the advancement of education and the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage by:  - supporting positive models to enable older people to be active in the local community and society  - providing pastoral care to improve their mental and spiritual well-being and their condition of life                -involving faith communities in working together to offer social activities and events interacting with other agencies to provide information and other forms of support for older people. and           - promoting and encouraging the training and education of people so that they may develop skills to assist older people.





## Geography

- **Main operating location:** City of Edinburgh
- **Geographical spread:** Wider, but within one local authority area







