01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC028441
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- Wider, but within one local authority area
- Volunteers
- 1-50 volunteers
- Staff
- 11
- Postcode
- G53 7WA
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
Help develop reuse & recycling services which expand community recycling in the Glasgow area.
Charitable purposes
- the prevention or relief of poverty
- the advancement of environmental protection or improvement
Beneficiaries
- Children or young people
- Older People
- People with disabilities or health problems
- People with a particular ethnic or racial origin
Activities
- It carries out activities or services itself
Constitutional objectives
(1) To relieve poverty among the residents of the South Side of Glasgow (lithe Operating Area') by the provisions of furniture and other household accessories and effects to those persons who have need of such items by reason of their necessitous circumstances (2) To protect the enviorment within the Operating Area from further damage caused by the creation of new, and by the development of existing, landfill sites (3) To promote and/or provide training in skills of all kinds, particularly such skills as will assist residents of the Operating Area in obtaining paid employment (4) To promote, establish and operate other schemes of a charitable nature for the benefit of the community within the Operating Area
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 April 2025 | £326,879 | £351,151 | 11 | 7 April 2026 |
| 5 April 2024 | £410,923 | £478,641 | 11 | 3 January 2025 |
| 5 April 2023 | £482,773 | £308,994 | 11 | 23 October 2023 |
| 5 April 2022 | £307,094 | £292,415 | 11 | 6 January 2023 |
| 5 April 2021 | £321,832 | £308,832 | 11 | 28 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
- 30, Woodhead Road, Glasgow
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.secondopportunities.org.uk
- Parent charity
- Spruce Carpets Limited · SC036546
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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