01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC005226
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- More than one local authority area in Scotland
- Volunteers
- 1-50 volunteers
- Staff
- 10
- Postcode
- G1 5HD
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
Our Purpose is to improve the lives and well-being of people with learning disabilities and lived experience of mental ill health through engagement, development and enjoyment of visual art. Our Vision is that through participation, people gain access to unique opportunities to learn skills, grow in confidence and demonstrate their talent and ability. We want them to be visible, equal and proud of their artistic identity and to achieve the status of established artists. Our Mission is to provide a welcoming community for disabled people, people with learning disabilities and people with lived experience of mental ill health, allowing them to express themselves, achieve their potential and succeed as artists.
Charitable purposes
- the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
Beneficiaries
- People with disabilities or health problems
Activities
- It carries out activities or services itself
Constitutional objectives
'To promote, maintain, improve and advance public education and to stimulate and educate public interest, in the arts for the benefit of the community and particularly for disabled people by establishing a Project whereby artistic activities of an educational nature for the public can be undertaken including without prejudice to this generality music, opera, ballet, drama, - the visual arts, films, video, sound, exhibitions of all kinds as are conducive to the promotion, maintenance, improvement and advancement of education or to the encouragement of the Arts, particularly as they involve disabled people, whether on premises owned or leased by the Project or elsewhere provided that all of the objects of the Project shall be exclusively charitable
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2025 | £481,561 | £542,089 | 10 | 7 August 2025 |
| 31 March 2024 | £471,676 | £487,878 | 10 | 15 August 2024 |
| 31 March 2023 | £381,901 | £427,811 | 10 | 23 August 2023 |
| 31 March 2022 | £417,199 | £397,999 | 10 | 18 October 2022 |
| 31 March 2021 | £519,442 | £418,316 | 10 | 6 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
- 103 Trongate, Glasgow
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.project-ability.co.uk
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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