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SCIAF

Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund

Charity registered in Scotland. Based in: United Kingdom. Founded 1965. Family: Caritas Internationalis. Main sector: education.

SCIAF is the official aid and international development charity of the Catholic Church in Scotland. SCIAF works in 16 countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America, to help reduce poverty. SCIAF's vision is of a world in which all people, especially the poor and oppressed, have the opportunity and the means to live life, and live it to the full. SCIAF's mission statement is: “Inspired by the Gospel called to build a just world, SCIAF challenges injustice by strengthening poor and oppressed people and by stimulating the Scottish public to share in our common struggle for human dignity.” The organisational objectives which are set to achieve this are: • to engage in partnerships that deliver effective, sustainable projects which contribute to reducing poverty and injustice; • to provide a timely and effective response to humanitarian crises in collaboration with our long term partners and the Caritas Internationalis confederation of Catholic relief, development and social service organisations; • to develop and deliver effective advocacy work that directly addresses the root causes of poverty and injustice; and • to build partnerships for international development with schools, parishes, the media and the general public.

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Founded

1965

Family

Caritas Internationalis (member)

Religious affiliation

Catholic · part of a religious institution — Scottish Episcopal Conference

Income 2025

£8.1M

Accounts

Income Expenditure

Source: OSCR (Scotland) — official register

European Union funding

Amounts committed each year by the European Commission to the organisation (contracts and grants), from the EU Financial Transparency System. A commitment often covers several project years and, in consortia, may include shares of other partners. They are not income for the year and should not be compared directly with the accounts.

Public funds from donor governments

Payments to the organisation reported by the aid agencies of 17 countries (USAID, FCDO, BMZ, Sida and others) in their own IATI data, converted to euros at the year's average rate. They include funds passed on to local partners. Not all donors name the recipient of their payments, so figures may be incomplete; EU funds are in their own section.

Spending on declared projects (IATI)

Only the projects the organisation publishes on IATI: usually a fraction of its total spending (median 14% in our checks).

Countries with projects published on IATI

Congo - Kinshasa ↗ 3 · United Kingdom ↗ 3 · Rwanda ↗ 2 · Ethiopia ↗ 1 · Cambodia ↗ 1 · Malawi ↗ 1 · South Sudan ↗ 1

Number of activities published on IATI that mention the country, added up over all years. Platforms that raise funds for other organisations publish every small project as a separate activity. Each country opens on d-portal the list of this organisation’s projects in that country.

Projects published on IATI (most recent and largest)

Titles are shown as published by the organisation, in their original language. Spending = disbursements and expenditure reported on IATI, in US$.

All projects on d-portal ↗

Official checks

Public register

OSCR — active registration

Latest accounts filed

2025 (OSCR (Scotland))

Annual filings

up to date (OSCR (Scotland))

Facts from public registers and certification bodies, not a judgement on the organisation; the absence of a label is not a negative sign. Methodology

Timeline

1. 1965 Founded
2. 2013-02-22 First publication on IATI

Identifiers

OSCR · IATI (d-portal) · Wikidata