OSCR Scottish charity profile

Second Opportunities

ActiveCharity number SC028441
Registered30 November 1998
Main locationGlasgow City
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
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

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
5 April 2025£326,879£351,151117 April 2026
5 April 2024£410,923£478,641113 January 2025
5 April 2023£482,773£308,9941123 October 2023
5 April 2022£307,094£292,415116 January 2023
5 April 2021£321,832£308,8321128 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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