OSCR Scottish charity profile

Glasgow Marriage Counselling Service

Known as GMCS operating as Glasgow Counselling Services - member of the Relationships Scotland Network

ActiveCharity number SC008419
Registered7 April 1981
Main locationGlasgow City
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC008419
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
More than one local authority area in Scotland
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
5
Postcode
G1 1DT

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

We provide short-term counselling to help individuals, couples and families improve their relationships and emotional wellbeing. It aims to build strong, resilient relationships and reduce inequality for marginalised and vulnerable people by offering accessible, human-rights-based support.? Our service delivers typically 8–10 sessions of structured, time-limited counselling, with longer support or onward referral where issues are more complex. It does this through a qualified team offering relationship, family/partner and individual counselling, psychosexual therapy, all our counsellors are trauma-informed, using both in-person and remote methods. The organisation also contributes its counselling expertise to outreach, training, education, research and policy work at local and national level.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of health
  • the advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation
  • the promotion of equality and diversity
  • any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes

Beneficiaries

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

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

The objects for which the Service is established are to provide, develop and co-ordinate a confidential counselling service in Glasgow and West of Scotland for those in marriage or other intimate personal relationships by:- (a) Helping people by non-judgemental counselling and education to prepare for, achieve and sustain successful personal relationships and to support them if their relationships break down. (b) Co-operating with other organisations and agencies concerned with personal relationships. (c) Providing suitable training for and development of those engaged in the work of the Service to ensure appropriate standards of expertise with a view to pursuing the objects of the Service. (d) Developing and sustaining local centres in Glasgow and the surrounding area where the above objects are implemented.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£95,108£118,349526 November 2025
31 March 2024£107,266£119,511522 November 2024
31 March 2023£100,452£130,991529 December 2023
31 March 2022£85,662£86,619521 December 2022
31 March 2021£97,873£80,570523 December 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
42 Miller Street, Glasgow
Website supplied to OSCR
www.rsglasgow.org.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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