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Thistle Foundation

Age80 years
older than 99% of its sector
Same activity, United Kingdom6,702live companies · 15th oldest
In Edinburgh60,677live companies · 59 in the same activity
At this address3live companies incl. this one
Latest accounts2025group accounts, made up to 31 Mar 2025

In brief

Thistle Foundation is a private company limited by guarantee incorporated in Scotland on 1 August 1946. At 80 years old it is older than 99% of the 6,702 live companies whose main activity is social work activities without accommodation for the elderly and disabled. Its registered office is in Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, at an address shared with 2 other live companies. 59 live companies in Edinburgh share the same main activity. Its latest accounts were made up to 31 March 2025 and filed as group accounts. It was previously called Thistle Foundation (the), a name it changed on 18 August 2010.

Register details

Registered nameTHISTLE FOUNDATION
Company numberSC024409
Company typePRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)
Registered officeThistle Centre of Wellbeing, 13 Queen's Walk, EH16 4EA Edinburgh
JurisdictionScotland
Nature of business (UK SIC 2007)88100 Social work activities without accommodation for the elderly and disabled · 88990 Other social work activities without accommodation n.e.c. · 96040 Physical well-being activities
International sector (ISIC Rev.4)Q · 88 Social work activities without accommodation

Timeline

Register events, newest first.

  • Confirmation statement made up
  • Accounts made upGroup accounts
  • Name changedPreviously Thistle Foundation (the)
  • Incorporated

Filings and charges

Deadlines and charge counts from the register.

Next accounts due31 December 2026
Accounting reference date31 March
Next confirmation statement11 April 2027
Last confirmation statement28 March 2026
Charges registered3
Outstanding · satisfied3 · 0

Charges are security interests (such as mortgages) registered against the company.

Social work activities without accommodation for the elderly and disabled in the United Kingdom

Live companies whose main activity is 88100: 6,702 in total, median age 6 years, 1,064 incorporated in the past 12 months.

All 6,702 companies
This company's decadeOther decades
01,0002,0003,0004,0001880s: 11880s1890s: 11890s1910s: 11910s1920s: 51920s1930s: 41930s1940s: 41940s1950s: 51950s1960s: 81960s1970s: 141970s1980s: 941980s1990s: 3161990s2000s: 6592000s2010s: 2,0622010s2020s: 3,5282020s
Incorporated per year, still live
02505007501,0002011: 19920112012: 1672013: 19320132014: 1942015: 21320152016: 2462017: 21320172018: 2262019: 27920192020: 2822021: 30920212022: 3922023: 40520232024: 4512025: 77120252026: 918

Location

Registered office in Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Edinburgh
Live companies in Edinburgh60,677
Same activity in Edinburgh59
Live companies in City of Edinburgh63,752
New in Edinburgh, past 12 months5,758

Also registered at this address

2 other live companies share this registered office.

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Sources

Register data: Companies House, Free Company Data Product, delivery of 1 October 2026. Places: ONS Postcode Directory (Open Government Licence v3.0). Sector names: Eurostat NACE Rev. 2. Context figures are computed by FirmsDB from these sources. This page is not an official register; check the official record before relying on it.