OSCR Scottish charity profile

Western Recreation Trust

ActiveCharity number SC002534
Registered29 December 1913
Main locationGlasgow City
Legal formTrust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC002534
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
More than one local authority area in Scotland
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
G2 1QQ

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

provide grants to organisations in communities across Scotland which operate to keep people on a positive path in life ie away from drugs and alcohol

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people
  • People with disabilities or health problems
  • 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

Constitutional objectives

The Trustees shall hold the Trust Funds and apply the same for such objects of public well-being and utility, either local or general in character, as they may in their absolute and uncontrolled discretion determine, subject only to the following restrictions:- (1) No portion of the Trust Funds shall be applied in direct relief of rates. (2) While not disregarding other objects which they may consider to be of benefit to the public, the Trustees shall, in the application of the Trust Funds have special regard to such means of rational recreation and entertainment as in their opinion shall tend to diminish in the community the undue consumption of alcoholic liquors.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£33,070£41,27102 December 2025
31 March 2024£28,946£29,272018 November 2024
31 March 2023£29,703£32,204029 November 2023
31 March 2022£27,888£30,638029 December 2022
31 March 2021£27,554£22,38004 October 2021

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
c/o Monteith Solicitors, 9 George Square, Glasgow
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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