OSCR Scottish charity profile

Scottish Rock Garden Club

ActiveCharity number SC000942
Registered1 January 1902
Main locationStirling
Legal formUnincorporated association

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC000942
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
UK and overseas
Volunteers
51-100 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
G63 0SQ

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The Club exists to foster an interest in mountain and woodland plants and other plants and bulbs suitable for the rock garden, bog garden, wild garden or alpine house. The strategy of the Club is to spread knowledge of these plants and to encourage their cultivation by publishing a regular journal for its members, by holding regular shows and events, by promoting a free access website available worldwide and by sponsoring individual activities whereby members of the public can increase their interest in such plants.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of environmental protection or improvement

Beneficiaries

  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

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

Constitutional objectives

The Club shall be called 'The Scottish Rock Garden Club' and exists to foster an interest in mountain and woodland plants and other plants and bulbs suitable for the rock garden, bog garden, wild garden or alpine house, to provide education about and increase and spread knowledge of such plants and to encourage their cultivation and preservation in gardens and in the wild. The Club shall hold meetings and exhibitions, publish journals and information and develop and provide educational information via the world wide web. The Club may carry on such other activities as may promote these objects.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
30 June 2025£62,048£62,805026 March 2026
30 June 2024£66,455£59,651028 March 2025
30 June 2023£66,513£62,249029 February 2024
30 June 2022£62,520£58,993029 March 2023
30 June 2021£62,820£47,355022 March 2022

Figures are those reported by the charity and supplied in the OSCR bulk download. Blank facts remain distinct from zero.

04 Contact record

Principal office or trustees address

Address supplied to OSCR
Cedar Cottage, Balfron Station, Glasgow
Website supplied to OSCR
www.srgc.net
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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