01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC030186
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- More than one local authority area in Scotland
- Volunteers
- 1-50 volunteers
- Staff
- 37
- Postcode
- EH1 1RP
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
Access to Industry works with individuals to support them into education and employment. Our work delivers real transformative change, assisting individuals to overcome personal difficulties that impede their progress.
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 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
- the promotion of equality and diversity
- the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
- any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes
Beneficiaries
- Other defined groups
- No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
Activities
- It carries out activities or services itself
Constitutional objectives
The objects for which the Company is established are: (a) The education and training of disadvantaged and excluded people living within Scotland to promote social justice and inclusion. (b) To relieve the disadvantaged circumstances of individuals within Scotland through the development of new education, training programmes and employment. (c) To create structured programmes for individuals from disadvantaged and excluded groups to access further and higher education, training and employment opportunities. (d) To maximise the take-up of the Company's access model by further and higher education providers to benefit people from disadvantaged and excluded groups
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2025 | £1,409,872 | £1,453,611 | 37 | 7 November 2025 |
| 31 March 2024 | £1,333,893 | £1,238,654 | 37 | 31 October 2024 |
| 31 March 2023 | £1,205,503 | £1,136,899 | 37 | 27 October 2023 |
| 31 March 2022 | £1,150,423 | £1,074,180 | 37 | 10 November 2022 |
| 31 March 2021 | £954,145 | £905,439 | 37 | 10 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
- 156 Cowgate, Edinburgh
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.accesstoindustry.co.uk
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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