Finance Score: -1

Governance Score: 4

Support Score: 0

Reasonable growth: +1
Multiple Deficits: -2
No PartB

Narrow trustee age band: -2
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

No supporters identified

Overall GiG Score: 3

OFFICERS ASSOCIATION SCOTLAND

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Financial Data

Income & Spending ?

Period ending	31/03/18	31/03/19	31/03/20	31/03/21	31/03/22	31/03/23
Charitable activities
Donations & Legacies	£20,568	£20,981	£23,153
Other Income
Investment Income	£265,081	£260,097	£228,192			£262,291
Total income	£285,649	£281,078	£251,345	£197,218	£248,543	£262,291
Charitable activities spending	£235,955	£293,155	£319,209			£397,369
Fundraising costs	218%	208%	205%			INF%
Other spending
Total spending	£280,811	£336,695	£366,763	£291,392	£462,068	£431,514
Surplus/deficit	£4,838	-£55,617	-£115,418	-£94,174	-£213,525	-£169,223

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Established: 70 years

www.oascotland.org.uk

Listed activities

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

GiG Classification

Other welfare services

Purposes

The prevention or relief of poverty

Where it operates

Operations cover all or most of Scotland, main operating location: City of Edinburgh

Who it helps

Older People
People with disabilities or health problems
Other charities or voluntary bodies

Who supports them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Directors (10)

Current Directors appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 44-59

ANDERSON, Suzanne
Appointed: 2020
Occupation: Brigadier

BRYDEN, James Richard
Appointed: 2019
Occupation: Chief Operating Officer

GOODACRE, David
Appointed: 2024
Occupation: Senior Executive

HARWOOD, Duncan James
Appointed: 2021
Occupation: Founder And Managing Director

JOHNSON, Troy Andre De-Quincey
Appointed: 2023
Occupation: Security Manager

MACDONALD, Alistair
Appointed: 2023
Occupation: Retired

MCKINNEY-BENNETT, Elizabeth Ann
Appointed: 2020
Occupation: Head Of Examinations

MIFSUD, Sophie
Appointed: 2017
Occupation: Volunteering Project Manager

QUINN, Wendy
Appointed: 2023
Occupation: Civil Servant

WATSON MACK, Emma Louise
Appointed: 2015
Occupation: Business Development Manager

Legal constitution

Charity registered in Scotland on 17/07/1954, number: SC010665
Registered at Companies House on 14/03/1997, number: SC173449

Filing Record

5 returns made; all on time

Main office

, EH7 4HR

Objectives

4.1 To provide support and relief to those persons who have at any time held a commission in any branches of HM Naval, Military and Air Forces, and of their wives, widows, husbands, widowers, civil partners, children and dependants either directly or through another similar charitable institution by making grants of money, loans, guarantees and generally by any other financial methods and to assist in their re-establishment in civil life through employment support, education, training and other relative support, 4.2 to provide grants and other support, as necessary, to other Naval, Military and/or Air Force charities, and 4.3 to promote such similar charitable purposes, objects or institutions in such proportions and manner as the Directors shall think fit. The expressions ‘charitable purpose’ or ‘charitable object’ shall mean a charitable purpose under section 7 of the 2005 Act which is also regarded as a charitable purpose in relation to the application of the Taxes Acts and a ‘charitable institution’ shall mean a charity in terms of the 2005 Act which is also regarded as a charity in relation to the application of the Taxes Acts, or a charity under the law of any other jurisdiction which is also regarded as a charity in relation to the application of the Taxes Acts, provided that nothing in these Articles shall authorise an application of the property of the Company other than in furtherance of a charitable purpose.