OSCR Scottish charity profile

The Poverty Alliance

ActiveCharity number SC019926
Registered2 January 1992
Main locationGlasgow City
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC019926
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Scotland and other parts of the UK
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
30
Postcode
G2 6PH

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Poverty restricts people’s choices and their ability to take part in society. Every worker should be paid the Real Living Wage and benefits must cover people’s needs. People living on low incomes are more likely to rely on public services. These services have a huge role in reducing the cost of living. People with lived experience of poverty must have their voices heard in policy-making processes. It’s the right thing to do and will create better solutions to poverty. To end poverty we need public support for redesigning our economy. And in the short-term we need to end the discrimination that people on low incomes face.

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty

Beneficiaries

  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
  • Other charities or voluntary bodies

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

To promote the allevation of poverty and to assist the work of voluntary organisations, statutory authorities and others engaged in the relief of poverty or other charitable purposes. To promote and organise co-operation in the achievement of the above purposes or any of them and to improve the level of public knowledge and awareness of poverty issues

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endTotal incomeDonationsCharitable activities incomeTrading incomeInvestment incomeOther incomeTotal expenditureRaising fundsCharitable activities spendingOther spendingStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£1,631,671£16,268£1,607,126£1,711£6,566£0£1,571,110£0£1,571,110£03022 December 2025
31 March 2024£1,522,155£1,713£1,509,084£5,880£5,478£0£1,401,976£0£1,401,976£03023 December 2024
31 March 2023£1,253,284£15,699£1,235,913£769£0£903£1,120,606£0£1,120,606£03012 December 2023
31 March 2022£1,023,913£7,568£1,014,276£2,037£0£32£911,028£0£911,028£03016 December 2022
31 March 2021£863,592£11,137£821,148£31,254£0£53£807,843£0£807,843£0307 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
Standard Building, 3rd Floor Front, 94 Hope Street, Glasgow
Website supplied to OSCR
www.povertyalliance.org
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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