OSCR Scottish charity profile

Getting Better Together Ltd

ActiveCharity number SC033111
Registered14 May 2002
Main locationNorth Lanarkshire
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC033111
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
A specific local point, community or neighbourhood
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
39
Postcode
ML7 5ET

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Getting Better Together Ltd. (GBT) exists to improve health, wellbeing, and life opportunities for people in Springhill, Shotts, and the wider community. We do this by providing accessible, community-led services across all ages, early years, youth work, adult support, volunteering, carers support, and wellbeing activities. Our programmes reduce isolation, build confidence, and help people connect with others. GBT works collaboratively with partners, offers targeted and universal supports, and empowers local people to get involved, volunteer, learn new skills, and shape services. Our community hub, outdoor spaces, and outreach work ensure that everyone, especially those hardest to reach, has a welcoming place to belong, be active, and thrive.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of health

Beneficiaries

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

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

The objects of Getting Better Together Ltd shall be to advance the education and promote health of the local community through new service provision, the increased co-ordination and integration of services and the creation of more accessible two way information flows between service providers and service users. In fbrtherance thereof, but not otherwise, Getting Better Together Ltd will seek to: Encourage the full and inclusive involvement of local people through the development of a community led management structure. Develop new services and activities to meet the specific needs and fill gaps in the existing service provision. Identify and promote opportunities to fbrther co-ordinate and integrate existing services line with local needs. Develop improved community information on health related services and Improve links to other services/issues that impact on health including, but not limited to, leisure, housing, employment and environment. To preserve and protect the physical and mental health of the people of Greater Shotts and North Lanarkshire to assist in the relief of ill health and the provision of health education for such residents. To promote training in skills of all kinds, particularly such skills as will assist residents of the Greater Shotts and North Lanarkshire in obtaining paid employment or will promote personal development To promote, establish, operate andlor support other similar schemes and initiatives of a charitable nature for the benefit of the community within the Greater Shotts and North Lanarkshire.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£1,561,903£1,844,927398 December 2025
31 March 2024£2,109,615£1,675,015394 December 2024
31 March 2023£2,603,807£1,436,4873920 December 2023
31 March 2022£1,341,158£1,216,117397 December 2022
31 March 2021£1,452,559£1,021,9673911 January 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
Shotts Healthy Living Centre, Kirk Road, Shotts
Website supplied to OSCR
https://shottshealthyliving.com/
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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