OSCR Scottish charity profile

Place for Hope

ActiveCharity number SC045224
Registered10 November 2014
Main locationWest Lothian
Legal formSCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC045224
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
UK and overseas
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
9
Postcode
G2 6AE

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Place for Hope is a charity which aims to resolve conflict in the faith community using voluntary practitioners so far as possible. We do this by: providing leadership training, workshops and resources for understanding and working with conflict as well as hosting and navigating difficult conversations. responding to requests for help and support, including helping groups and individuals at a time of crisis. accompanying sensitive or difficult group conversations. providing individual coaching, advice and support. hosting and enabling community dialogues on difficult, potentially divisive issues. developing and supporting a team of practitioners skilled in understanding conflict and able to provide mediation, training and facilitation. and nurturing a network of people and organisations who are committed to the work of peace building, equipping them in the work of conflict transformation in their communities, homes and lives.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • the advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation

Beneficiaries

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

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

4.1 To advance conflict resolution and reconciliation through mediation as a means to help individuals, groups and leaders in faith communities and the wider community live more effectively with difference and diversity. 4.2 To advance citizenship, community development and peace-making through promoting methods of interaction and dialogue which support healthy relationships and reconciliation drawing on the wisdom from Christian and other religious traditions. 4.3 To advance conflict resolution and reconciliation through the promotion of societal harmony, and prevent conflict, by providing trained mediators to work with individuals and within communities, addressing issues of inequality and division. and 4.4 To advance education through the provision of training in mediation and conflict resolution, conflict reconciliation and conflict transformation.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£396,877£343,841924 September 2025
31 March 2024£314,225£293,93991 October 2024
31 March 2023£181,720£281,598928 September 2023
31 March 2022£315,490£247,464929 September 2022
31 March 2021£288,116£187,192917 September 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
Place for Hope, 3/2 Atlantic Chambers, Glasgow
Website supplied to OSCR
www.placeforhope.org.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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