OSCR Scottish charity profile

Greatway Foundation

Known as GWF

ActiveCharity number SC046065
Registered20 October 2015
Main locationCity of Edinburgh
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC046065
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Operations cover all or most of Scotland
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
2
Postcode
EH6 5JY

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Greatway Foundation is a non-religious, community focused charity established to advance equality of opportunity and improve life chances for children, young people and families experiencing social and economic disadvantage. The charity operates on an inclusive basis and does not exist to advance or promote any religion or belief. Our activities are open to people of all backgrounds and faiths, or none, and are delivered without religious instruction, worship or requirement of belief. Greatway Foundation achieves its charitable purposes through education support, skills development, wellbeing programmes and family focused services designed to strengthen resilience, aspiration and long-term outcomes within local communities.

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of religion

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people
  • Older People
  • People with disabilities or health problems
  • People with a particular ethnic or racial origin
  • Other defined groups
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
  • Other charities or voluntary bodies

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

The Company is established to advance Christian Religious activities and to prevent as well as relief poverty. These activities will include but not limited to establishing churches and other places of Christian religious worship, and poverty alleviation programmes.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2026£0£02Not supplied
31 March 2025£131,336£126,391230 December 2025
31 March 2024£69,425£67,918219 January 2025
31 March 2023£132,456£133,30727 February 2024
31 March 2022£55,457£57,586221 December 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
13a Bangor Road, Salvation Army Building, Leith, Edinburgh
Website supplied to OSCR
www.greatwayfoundation.org.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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