OSCR Scottish charity profile

Bathgate Community First Responders

ActiveCharity number SC040658
Registered10 July 2009
Main locationWest Lothian
Legal formUnincorporated association

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC040658
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
A specific local point, community or neighbourhood
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
EH53 0FQ

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

This group has been set up to assist the Scottish Ambulance Service help save lives by or at least increase the quality of life by giving people urgent emergency assistance prior to the arrival of a 999 called ambulance. The group has been set up in coordination with the Scottish Ambulance Service where volunteers run and manage the group which is a stand-alone self-funded charity. A volunteer first responder can help not only the Scottish Ambulance Service but directly benefit their own community. A local first responder may be able to reach a friend, neighbour, or even a member of their own family within a few minutes of a call being received at the Ambulance Control Centre. They will dispatch the nearest ambulance and then contact the local first responder. He or she can be immediately on the scene, thereby providing a better chance of recovery for the patient. In addition we work with community groups to provide vital life saving training in CPR demos.

Charitable purposes

  • the saving of lives

Beneficiaries

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

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

The charitable objects of BATHGATE COMMUNITY FIRST RESPONDERS are to enable volunteer FIRST RESPONDERS to attend Pre-Emergency Ambulance Care interventions in accordance with their training for the benefit of the whole community.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£0£856028 December 2025
31 March 2024£453£1,26805 June 2025
31 March 2023£0£911014 February 2024
31 March 2022£0£53503 July 2023
31 March 2021£850£571025 April 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
6 Forest Glade, Calder Meadows, East Calder, West Lothian
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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