OSCR Scottish charity profile

New Rhythms For Glasgow

Known as New Rhythms for Glasgow

ActiveCharity number SC026957
Registered18 August 1997
Main locationGlasgow City
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC026957
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
A specific local point, community or neighbourhood
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
2
Postcode
G21 1RG

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

We are a grassroots creative health and wellbeing charity, with a 25 year legacy of providing services to North Glasgow's most marginalised communities. We use a range of evidence-based tools to engage, educate, empower and energise local community members. Our aim is improve the health and wellbeing, and opportunities available to those facing challenges in relation to poor mental health, addiction, trauma, poverty, single parenthood, isolation, loneliness, disability and any other life stressors. We provide free service both in-house and on an outreach basis across Glasgow. Our services provide opportunity for people to engage with effective, creative health and wellbeing tools. These tools support people to develop a pattern of positive change in their lives, in relation to improved mental, social, emotional and physical health and wellbeing.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
  • the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended

Beneficiaries

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

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

1 To advance the arts through providing a range of opportunities and support to stimulate interest and participation in music and arts for people in the north Glasgow area ('the Operating Area'). 2 To advance education and, in particular, to advance the education and skills of the public in relation to the performing arts. 3 To promote and/or provide training, particularly in relation to those skills which are relevant to employment in any field of the arts. 4 To advance citizenship and/or community development through utilising the performing arts (particularly music) to build the capabilities and confidence of people, including the development of transferable skills. 5 To promote equality and diversity and to relieve those who are in need by reason of financial hardship etc, by addressing issues of economic and social exclusion which act as barriers to involvement in the performing arts within the Operating Area. 6 To promote equality and diversity through raising awareness and increasing public knowledge and understanding of cultural and diversity issues through music and arts-based activities. 7 To promote, operate, establish and/or support other similar projects and programmes which further charitable purposes, particularly for the benefit of residents of the Operating Area.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£197,610£147,95925 January 2026
31 March 2024£179,055£162,89126 December 2024
31 March 2023£174,889£158,839214 December 2023
31 March 2022£168,829£204,183222 November 2022
31 March 2021£170,860£130,865213 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
61 , Fountainwell Drive, Sighthill, Glasgow
Website supplied to OSCR
www.nrfg.org.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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