01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC038351
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- UK and overseas
- Volunteers
- 1-50 volunteers
- Staff
- 1
- Postcode
- G1 5QH
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
Established in 1991, Art in Hospital (AiH) is a pioneer at the intersection of contemporary visual art and medicine, delivering public benefit across Scottish healthcare environments. For 35 years, the charity has embedded professional artists within acute clinical settings, including Stroke Rehabilitation and Palliative Care. Through these visual arts programmes, AiH has supported thousands of patients in creative expression, directly enhancing patient well-being and equity of access. The continuity of this work has generated a significant volume of physical artworks, digital records, and institutional expertise. AiH is actively committed to the stabilisation, ethical stewardship, and progressive digitisation of these outputs. By embedding modern operational frameworks and digital accessibility, the charity ensures its unique creative methodologies remain resilient, compliant, and accessible to patients, healthcare staff, researchers and wider community.
Charitable purposes
- the advancement of citizenship or community development
- the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
- the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Beneficiaries
- Older People
- People with disabilities or health problems
Activities
- It carries out activities or services itself
Constitutional objectives
( To advance education through promotion of the arts and relieve the needs, suffering and distress of the elderly, and individuals suffering from any form of mental and/or physical disability, illness or impairment, in partuxlar by encouraging and providing opportunities for such people to engage in arts activities including without prejudice to that generality, painting, drawing, printmalung, textiles, sculpture, and photography. To promote, establish, operate andlor support other similar schemes and projects whlch further chantable purposes for the benefit of the general public.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2025 | £250,500 | £285,684 | 1 | 6 June 2026 |
| 31 March 2024 | £243,750 | £305,525 | 1 | 6 June 2026 |
| 31 March 2023 | £268,500 | £249,943 | 1 | 28 May 2026 |
| 31 March 2022 | £213,750 | £245,641 | 1 | 28 May 2026 |
| 31 March 2020 | £219,448 | £187,961 | 1 | 19 August 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
- South Block, Rooms 222 and 223, 60-64 Osborne Street, Glasgow
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.artinhospital.com
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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