01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC018453
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- Wider, but within one local authority area
- Volunteers
- 0 volunteers
- Staff
- 16
- Postcode
- PA3 1NS
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
Engage Renfrewshire is a third sector interface (TSI). this means that we support local charities and other not-for-profit groups. Engage Renfrewshire provides advice and support to all community focussed groups who want to start up or develop further. We support social enterprises, community development trusts, charitable groups, mutual aid groups and more. We help groups to build capacity and to be safe, by providing information, advice and training for everything from charitable structures to funding. We have a comprehensive volunteering service. We support volunteer involving organisations with recruitment and volunteer support, and work with individuals to find them rewarding and uplifting volunteer opportunities. We also work with local charities and public sector bodies to promote volunteering for all. Our financial services social enterprise, Engage Finance, offers payroll, HR and financial services to individuals and organisations in Renfrewshire and beyond.
Charitable purposes
- the prevention or relief of poverty
- the advancement of education
- the advancement of health
- the advancement of citizenship or community development
- the advancement of environmental protection or improvement
- 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 makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
- It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
- It carries out activities or services itself
Constitutional objectives
1 The company’s objects are:- 1.1 To promote civic responsibility, volunteering, the voluntary sector or the effectiveness or efficiency of charities principally in Renfrewshire and neighbouring local authorities (“the Operating Area”). 1.2 To relieve poverty primarily among the residents of the Operating Area. 1.3 To advance education primarily among the residents of the Operating Area, particularly among young people and the unemployed. 1.4 To promote training in skills of all kinds, particularly such skills as will assist primarily residents of the Operating Area in obtaining paid employment. 1.5 To advance community development and regeneration primarily within the Operating Area and particularly (but without limitation) through: 1.5.1 assisting in the planning of changes to the housing and physical environment as part of a wider strategy for relief of the problems of poverty within the Operating Area. 1.5.2 the promotion of trade and industry, for the benefit of the general public. 1.6 To advance health (including the provision of health education) and to assist in the relief of ill health primarily among the residents of the Operating Area. 1.7 To promote, operate, establish and/or support other similar projects, programmes and/or schemes which further charitable purposes, particularly for the benefit of residents of the Operating Area, and to do so in a manner which is in line with the aims of Renfrewshire Community Planning Partnership
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2025 | £1,426,433 | £1,145,110 | 16 | 15 December 2025 |
| 31 March 2024 | £1,360,643 | £1,150,982 | 16 | 16 December 2024 |
| 31 March 2023 | £1,350,464 | £1,286,463 | 16 | 22 December 2023 |
| 31 March 2022 | £1,372,719 | £1,276,852 | 16 | 1 December 2022 |
| 31 March 2021 | £1,105,193 | £991,264 | 16 | 16 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
- 10 Falcon Crescent, Ferguslie Park, Paisley
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.engagerenfrewshire.com
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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