Annual Reports

How Sunflower Scotland is funded

Sunflower Scotland is funded mostly by donations from private individuals from across the UK.

A few Scottish businesses based in the Central Belt are important contributors and supporters.

We are sincerely grateful for your trust and support.

2025 Annual Report

From 01.01.2025 to 31.12.2025

• Conducted 9 trips, delivered humanitarian aid to 53 locations.
• Made 2,826 deliveries in areas near the front line including Kherson, Kramatorsk, Vovchansk district, Kushuhum (Zaporizhzhia).
• 1,084 aid deliveries to vulnerable children (disabled, orphans).
• Supported 9 city hospitals in Sumy, Kherson, Kharkiv etc., two field hospitals (Kramatorsk, Vovchansk), and a rehabilitation centre in Dnipro.
• Donated 29 vehicles including six ambulances.

In 2025 we continued helping vulnerable (pensioners and disabled) people near the front. But because of the rapidly increasing drone danger, in mid-2025 we had to rethink our work. Our trips were putting volunteers at the risk of death.

In the middle of 2025 we prioritised supporting hospitals which treat the victims of the war, and helping to evacuate people from kill zones. We donated an armoured van to an evac team in Kherson, and 29 vehicles including six ambulances.

Sunflower Scotland always delivers aid direcly to victims thus avoiding intermediaries and corruption.

Programme 1: Humanitarian aid to frontline villages and towns

Humanitarian aid provided to older people in frontline villages of Kharkiv (8 villages) and Kherson (4 villages) regions.

Results:

• 1964 new deliveries during 2024
• 7057 total frontline deliveries
• 16,928 people impacted by our work

Programme 2: Aid deliveries to disabled children and orphans

Humanitarian aid provided to 199 orphans in foster care in Krasnokutsk (north Kharkiv region) 40 km from the Russian border; 45 disabled children with Down’s syndrome and osteoporosis in Kryvyi Rih.

Results:

• 1946 new deliveries during 2024
• 3033 vulnerable children impacted by our work

Programme 3: Rehabilitation of the victims of war

We are supporting two rehabilitation centres in the Dnipropetrovsk region
(central-east Ukraine). They help victims of war who have suffered war injuries:
burns, shrapnel wounds, or amputated arms and legs.

Results:

• 24 rehabilitation machines delivered
• 120 patients helped
• 3 fully-funded rehabilitations

Programme 4: Saving lives at the front line

Sunflower provides medical aid o hospitals, ambulances, 4×4 cars for evacuation,
tourniquets, bandages and other first-aid items, as well as gas masks.
Results:

• 7 hospitals received medical aid
• 16 evacuation vans and 4×4 cars provided

Key Milestones of 2023

From its incorporation as an SCIO on the 26th October 2022 and until 31 December 2023, Sunflower Scotland worked tirelessly to deliver on its objectives. Here is a summary of its achievements over that period:

• 5,177 aid deliveries which supported 11,721 people
• Helped people in frontline villages and towns having conducted 36 missions
• 1,087 aid deliveries to deprived children, including orphans in fostering families, children with physical and mental disabilities, children from extremely poor / internally displaced families who lost their homes because of the war.
• Provided medical aid to five hospitals
• Provided 8 ambulances, jeeps to TRO (Home Guard) and life-saving supplies to frontline medics
• Food Aid was purchased in Ukraine, supporting local jobs and saving 58% of the donated funds

Over the period between October 2022 and December 2023 Sunflower Scotland received total funds of £95,374 and spent £92,233 of which £89,518 were spent on humanitarian missions in Ukraine, and £2,715 on governance and administrative expenses.

Of the £95,374 received donations, 49% were general (unrestricted) funds, whereas 24% of donations were received for specific projects. 15% were unrestricted grants, 10% was received as income from fundraising events and 3% as income from trading activities.

Of the £89,518 expenditure, 62% was general humanitarian aid in Ukraine, 26% was related to the specific humanitarian projects, 11% were expenses related to travel to/from humanitarian missions in Ukraine (our “travel for humanitarian missions” is a humanitarian mission in itself as we deliver equipment and leave the vehicles behind), and 1% of the expenditure was related to raising funds.

£22,954 were spent on specific humanitarian projects which was within the restricted funds budget of £22,955.