OSCR Scottish charity profile

Volunteer Centre -The Centre For Volunteering Community Action And Employment Initiatives Ltd

Known as Volunteer Glasgow

ActiveCharity number SC005462
Registered29 August 1986
Main locationGlasgow City
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC005462
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Wider, but within one local authority area
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
13
Postcode
G1 1UZ

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The charity addresses two issues currently: First, we make it easier for people living in Glasgow City local authority area to volunteer and have positive, inclusive volunteering experiences that give them proven health and employability benefits in the hundreds of public and third sector organisations that need their help – our Volunteer Centre (Inclusion & Development Services) and our SQA Approved Centre services. Secondly, we provide community-based Befriending and Mentoring Services for children and young people facing significant difficulties in their lives, often referred by Social Work or Education Services and matched to trained volunteers. helping the city to “get it right for every child”.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

The company’s objects are to benefit the inhabitants of the West of Scotland through: - Promoting citizenship and community development by: (a) Establishing and providing the means by which individuals interested in volunteering may receive information, training, assistance or support that shall enable them to play an active role in volunteering. (b) Assisting other voluntary and statutory bodies to extend the range of volunteering opportunities. (c) Providing assistance to individuals, groups, charitable bodies or statutory agencies concerned with community action, volunteering and employment. (d) Providing and assisting in the provision of training and learning opportunities with a view to developing skills which will assist people to find work. (e) Disseminating information in order to promote good policy and practice in volunteering. And the relief of need by: (f) Developing facilities and opportunities of benefit to unemployed people and other disadvantaged groups, including temporary employment and training projects and related initiatives. (g) Developing and sustaining a range of community-based care and support services for disadvantaged families and individuals.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£432,812£440,7081320 November 2025
31 March 2024£476,213£533,022136 November 2024
31 March 2023£480,133£581,863137 November 2023
31 March 2022£473,807£628,144133 November 2022
31 March 2021£874,331£725,2031315 November 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
Brunswick House, 51 Wilson Street, Glasgow
Website supplied to OSCR
www.volunteerglasgow.org
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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