01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC003198
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- Wider, but within one local authority area
- Volunteers
- 1-50 volunteers
- Staff
- 144
- Postcode
- IV3 5DT
OSCR note: Charity changed it's legal name from Birchwood Highland tp CENTRED (SCOTLAND) on 2022-06-05
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
Centred (Scotland). formally Birchwood Highland, was set up to provide support for people experiencing significant and enduring mental ill health. Initially we delivered this via contracts from NHS Highland, delivering services within the Inverness following the closedown of the local mental health hospital. While these services have grown and are now Highland wide we have also established a 23 bed residential unit that provides step up step down support to people leaving hospital to ready them for living in the community. We have also recently established a Discovery College that is based on the peer led recovery college model. This operates in Inverness, Wick and Fort William. We also provide care at home services in Caithness and Lochaber which helps to sustain our current services.
Charitable purposes
- the prevention or relief of poverty
- the advancement of health
- the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Beneficiaries
- People with disabilities or health problems
Activities
- It carries out activities or services itself
Constitutional objectives
To promote the welfare and relieve the needs of those that are in condition of need through mental illness and/or old age and/or physical disability and/or learning disability and/or substance misuse and thereby improve their conditions of life.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2025 | £4,644,275 | £4,685,004 | 144 | 21 October 2025 |
| 31 March 2024 | £4,187,385 | £4,226,041 | 144 | 13 December 2024 |
| 31 March 2023 | £3,519,273 | £4,001,786 | 144 | 22 December 2023 |
| 31 March 2022 | £3,214,058 | £3,461,802 | 144 | 6 December 2022 |
| 31 March 2021 | £2,878,904 | £2,849,857 | 144 | 14 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
- Unit 38, Inverness, The Eastgate Shopping Centre, Inverness
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.centred.scot
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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