OSCR Scottish charity profile

Woodlands Community Development Trust

ActiveCharity number SC008741
Registered23 July 1985
Main locationGlasgow City
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC008741
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
A specific local point, community or neighbourhood
Volunteers
101-250 volunteers
Staff
9
Postcode
G3 6HW

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Woodlands Community Development Trust runs an ambitious public programme, including events and regular sessions, providing community spaces for connection and wellbeing. We are proud to create spaces and opportunities that bring people together to empower community action and foster a sense of belonging. All our initiatives are shaped by our values and designed to integrate social wellbeing with the environment. Our values are: Welcoming (we value the creation of spaces to meet and we link up different groups within the community). Nurturing (we recognise the skills and talents of everyone and we care for people and the planet). Creative (we believe beautiful spaces support creativity and we believe that working together creates positive change). and Responsive (we are flexible in our response to events, linking the global to the local and our responses are adaptive to the conditions of our community).

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of religion
  • the advancement of health
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
  • the promotion of religious or racial harmony
  • the advancement of environmental protection or improvement

Beneficiaries

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

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

The Trust's objects are:- (1)To promote urban regeneration and the redevelopment and revitalisation of the area of Woodlands (which area is bounded on the south by Woodlands Road and Eldon Street, on the west by the River Kelvin, on the north by Great Western Road, and on the east by St Georges Road) and neighbouring areas ('the Operating Area'), all for the benefit of the residents of the Operating Area without distinction as to their race, age, gender, religion, or political or other Opinions. (2) To relieve unemployment for the public benefit among people resident in the Operating Area in such ways as may be thought fit, including assistance to find employment. (3) To promote education and advance health among people resident in the Operating Area. (4) To advance environmental protection and improvement for the benefit of the general public and in particular, people resident in the Operating Area. (5) To advance the arts, heritage and culture of the Operating Area. (6) To advance citizenship among people resident in the Operating Area. (7) To promote religious and racial harmony and to promote equality and diversity among peop le resident in the Operating Area. (8) To promote and/or support other similar projects and programmes, which further charitable purposes, for the benefit of people resident in the Operating Area.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 December 2024£235,507£312,986926 September 2025
31 December 2023£313,559£301,78593 September 2024
31 December 2022£314,346£285,12397 September 2023
31 December 2021£304,982£300,241920 September 2022
31 December 2020£295,247£278,775917 September 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
66 Ashley Street, Glasgow
Website supplied to OSCR
www.woodlandscommunity.org.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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