01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC031261
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- Wider, but within one local authority area
- Volunteers
- 1-50 volunteers
- Staff
- 9
- Postcode
- G65 9TA
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
Twechar Community Action (TCA) operates from within the Twechar Healthy Living and Enterprise Centre (THLEC) to provide the accommodation and resources required to deliver a range of recreational, educational and leisure activities to its community as well as offering volunteering, skills training and employment opportunities to local people. The THLEC accommodates a full time Pharmacy, a Café, a hairdressing salon, a sports hall and a variety of meeting rooms that can be used by local community groups and statutory organisations for satellite surgeries, training, holistic therapies and social activities that aim to improve the physical and mental wellbeing of its participants. All these projects and initiatives are underpinned by a strong community development model which improve the physical, economic and social fabric of Twechar. TCA is instrumental in bringing about change in the aspirations of residents in the village and to improve their physical and mental wellbeing.
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 advancement of public participation in sport
- 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 religious or racial harmony
- the promotion of equality and diversity
- the advancement of environmental protection or improvement
- the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Beneficiaries
- Children or young people
- Older People
- People with disabilities or health problems
- 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
(1) To provide facilities for recreation and other leisure time occupation available for the residents of Twechar and the surrounding area ('the Operating Area') with a view to improving their conditions of life. (2) To relieve poverty, in particular among the residents of the Operating Area, in such ways as may be thought fit. (3) To advance education among the residents of the Operating Area. (4) To promote, establish, operate, and/or support other projects and programmes of a charitable nature for the benefit of the residents of the Operating Area.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Total income | Donations | Charitable activities income | Trading income | Investment income | Other income | Total expenditure | Raising funds | Charitable activities spending | Other spending | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2025 | £312,766 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £309,024 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 9 | 22 December 2025 |
| 31 March 2024 | £263,143 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £260,322 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 9 | 9 December 2024 |
| 31 March 2023 | £322,334 | £245,090 | £70,244 | £7,000 | £0 | £0 | £346,394 | £0 | £346,394 | £0 | 9 | 13 December 2023 |
| 31 March 2022 | £295,733 | £217,827 | £70,906 | £7,000 | £0 | £0 | £322,431 | £0 | £322,431 | £0 | 9 | 21 December 2022 |
| 31 March 2021 | £364,022 | £322,934 | £34,088 | £7,000 | £0 | £0 | £309,798 | £0 | £309,798 | £0 | 9 | 23 February 2022 |
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
- Twechar Healthy Living Centre, St John's Way, Twechar, Kilsyth, Glasgow
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.twecharhlec.org.uk
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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