OSCR Scottish charity profile

Friends of Douglas Park (SCIO)

ActiveCharity number SC046569
Registered18 May 2016
Main locationSouth Lanarkshire
Legal formSCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC046569
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
G72 8DF

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Douglas Park is a small pocket park which has been a community open space and garden for over 100 years, however, the use of the area as a community space declined with the removal of the main garden and seating in around the 1980’s. The main purpose of Friends of Douglas Park is to restore the area to a functional park, allowing increased community use and enjoyment and providing the associated health and wellbeing benefits that access to quality outdoor space brings. To further these objectives, our main activities involve: • Organising community events to both fundraise and encourage community involvement. • Carry out park improvements to restore it to a useful and attractive outdoor space whilst improving the biodiversity and environmental value of the area. • Seek funding to support us in achieving our objectives. • Liaise with other community groups and schools within the area to encourage wider use of the park. • Facilitating volunteers for maintaining the park.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended
  • the advancement of environmental protection or improvement

Beneficiaries

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

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

The organisation's purposes are: To restore Douglas Park to a well-tended park and open space for the benefit of the community for use by all, thereby encouraging increased community use, leading to the improvement and development of community spirit in Douglas Park. To advance the education of the adjacent primary school pupils concerning the natural environment through the development of horticultural programmes. To conserve, enhance and improve the biodiversity and sustainable use of Douglas Park for the benefit of people and wildlife. To create a sense of space and place in the community with an intelligent viewpoint detailing the local landmarks, landmarks of the wider Glasgow area and surrounding mountains. To provide a resource, in the form of Douglas Park, for the use of other community groups and in furtherance of their aims and objectives in so far as those aims and objectives are not in conflict with the aims and objectives of the Organisation. To encourage health and environmental engagement as part of the network of green open spaces in Cambuslang. In furtherance thereof, but not otherwise, the Organisation shall seek to protect, preserve and enhance the environmental asset of Douglas Park with the object of improving the conditions of life for the community by promoting health, community engagement and the benefits of enjoying green space.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 May 2025£0£506 August 2026
31 May 2024£0£14101 March 2025
31 May 2023£482£219026 February 2024
31 May 2022£647£495027 February 2023
31 May 2021£6,410£5,171021 December 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
24 Stewarton Drive, Cambuslang, Lanarkshire
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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