OSCR Scottish charity profile

Inverclyde Advice & Employment Rights Centre

ActiveCharity number SC038819
Registered17 October 2007
Main locationInverclyde
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC038819
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Wider, but within one local authority area
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
2
Postcode
PA15 1JZ

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The purpose of IAERC, which is a not for profit organisation, is to provide advice and advocacy service for the Inverclyde Community. The Board members are all from the Inverclyde Community. The organisation deals with all members of the Inverclyde Community who seek our services in relation to matters arising from work, past or present. We assist those in need, many of them Disabled or experiencing Inequalities, and by advising or advocating, enhance the quality of their lives and the lives of their families and the Community at large. The Centre provides a drop in service and an advocacy service open to all in the Community. The aim of the Charity is to ensure that the local Community access their rights, retain their employment and access justice should the need arise.

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • the advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation
  • the promotion of religious or racial harmony
  • the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Beneficiaries

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

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

To advance education, particularly among the residents of Inverclyde ('the Operating Area'), within the fields of welfare rights, employment law and associated fields. To relieve poverty, particularly among, residents of the Operating Area. To relieve those who are in need by reason of mental andlor physical disability, learning disability, illness or impairment. To advance citizenship and community development through encouraging, stimulating and supporting volunteering, principally in the Operating Area. To promote equality and diversity through working towards the elimination of discrimination (whether on the grounds of race, religion, disability, gender, sexual orientation, social status or otherwise), and through promoting and supporting equality of opportunity for all residents of the Operating Area irrespective of race, religion, disability, gender, sexual orientation or social status. To promote religious or racial harmony between peoples of different ethnic, racial, social, religious and other groups within the framework of a multi-racial and inclusive society. To promote, establish, operate andlor support other similar projects and programmes which further charitable purposes for the benefit of the community within the Operating Area.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£83,244£83,440219 September 2025
31 March 2024£77,048£77,083214 November 2024
31 March 2023£84,108£77,97426 November 2023
31 March 2022£75,515£74,129211 October 2022
31 March 2021£76,848£73,41826 October 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
Room 3, 1st Floor, The Westburn Centre 175 Dalrymple St, , Greenock, Inverclyde
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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