REGISTERED SCOTTISH CHARITY SC052092
ABOUT SUNFLOWER SCOTLAND
Sunflower Scotland is a registered charity SC052092.
Our members from Edinburgh personally deliver aid to Ukraine, and we know first hand what’s needed.
We have been helping Ukraine since 02 March 2022. The war in 2025 isn’t what it was in 2022. Drones and missiles are destroying homes and causing terrible injuries. They reach all of Ukraine, but frontline areas are hit every day with high intensity. First and foremost, help doctors in frontline areas to save lives.
In 2022, when crowds of refugees were fleeing to west Ukraine, they needed warm clothes and food. By now the war has changed, and the humanitarian crisis is different. Sunflower has learned and evolved: we are helping those who are suffering in frontline Ukraine.
Our Scottish management team is working alongside volunteers at the front. They are not sending Ukrainian volunteers to die for them while they are drinking coffee in Edinburgh.
PRIORITIES
Our humanitarian response is based on hard-earned knowledge. Since 2022 we have been operating right at the edge, in the most critical areas: Kharkiv, Lyman, Borova, Kherson, Sovyansk, Sumy. Our Scottish team has been delivering aid directly to the people who need it, not to intermediaries in western Ukraine.
We speak directly with Ukrainian frontline doctors, with soldiers, with disabled people, and we know exactly what is needed. Thanks to our donors and supporters, we do our best to help them. Please join our mission.
PRIORITY 1. SAVING LIVES
Sunflower delivers medical aid to the frontline: to hospitals and to frontline medics (PROJECT: SAVING LIVES AT THE FRONT LINE). We use 4×4 cars and vans to get to difficult and dangerous places. After that, we donate them to Ukraine and return by train.
PRIORITY 2. REHABILITATION OF THE VICTIMS OF WAR
390 000 people in Ukraine were injured, and some have lost arms and legs. Help them to recover. We are supporting two rehabilitation centres in East Ukraine (Project: Amputee and War Trauma Rehabilitation Centres).
PRIORITY 3. HELPING VULNERABLE CHILDREN
Sunflower supports vulnerable children in Ukraine who are suffering from the war: 47 children with Down’s syndrome and 199 orphans (PROJECT: HELPING CHILDREN WITH DOWN’S SYNDROME AND ORPHANS).
Visit the pages dedicated to these project to learn what we do to help, and how you can support the victims as well.
HOW WE WORK
SUNFLOWER SCOTLAND: KEY FACTS
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Started working as a voluntary association: 02 March 2022
Registered charity: since 26 October 2022
Regulated by OSCR (Scottish Charity Regulator)
Scottish Charity Number: SC052092 (OSCR website), UK Charity Number: CS005975 (Companies House website)
REPORTING
As a registered and regulated charity, Sunflower Scotland is fully transparent. See our current mission reports, Annual Reports, and a full account of where we delivered vehicles.
MISSION REPORTS
ANNUAL REPORTS AND ACCOUNTS
VEHICLE DELIVERIES
CHARITABLE PURPOSES
The purpose of Sunflower Scotland SCIO is to save lives and to provide relief to those Ukrainian people who suffered from Russia’s aggressive invasion in Ukraine.
To achieve its purpose, our organisation undertakes:
- to provide humanitarian relief aid to vulnerable people in settlements near the front line and de-occupied territories, where homes and civilian infrastructure are severely damaged;
- to provide relief aid to deprived children and fostering families;
- to provide medical equipment and supplies to Ukrainian hospitals;
- to help save lives at the front line by providing medical supplies, ambulances and means of evacuation;
- to source humanitarian aid locally in Ukraine as much as is reasonably practical, in order to support the country’s economy.
TEAM
Our management team works both in Scotland and on the ground in Ukraine delivering aid. We have the knowledge and experience. We keep our charity sharply focused on the most acute humanitarian challenges in Ukraine. We are not continuing outdated
Board of Trustees
Our Scottish management team includes professionals in business, finance, accounting, medicine and healthcare services (read more: Board of Trustees).
Volunteers
Our Scottish and Ukrainian volunteers are at the core of our service delivery. We have a number of part-time Scottish volunteers and a full-time employee in Kharkiv.
IMPORTANT: our Scottish management team is working alongside volunteers in frontline Ukraine. They are not sending Ukrainian volunteers to die for them while they are drinking coffee in Edinburgh and posting sad photos on social media.
