01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC046607
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- More than one local authority area in Scotland
- Volunteers
- 0 volunteers
- Staff
- 0
- Postcode
- G1 1HL
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
The Wheatley Foundation's charitable aim is to support customers of Wheatley disadvantaged. Donations from certain Wheatley Group subsidiaries as well as external funding are used to help our customers, many of them vulnerable, in five key areas of life: social exclusion and tackling poverty. employability. education. digital inclusion. and sports and art.
Charitable purposes
- the prevention or relief of poverty
- the advancement of education
- the advancement of health
- the advancement of citizenship or community development
- the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
- the advancement of public participation in sport
- the advancement of environmental protection or improvement
- the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Beneficiaries
- Other defined groups
- Other charities or voluntary bodies
Activities
- It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
- It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
- It carries out activities or services itself
Constitutional objectives
The Company's objects are as follows: 5.1 To relieve those who are in need by reason of financial hardship, ill health, disability or other disadvantage (whether as a consequence of changes in welfare provision or otherwise. and including, without limitation,those who may be at risk of homelessness) by providing them with financial assistance and/or referring them for support (with the Company reimbursing the relevant organisation/agency, where the directors consider that appropriate, in respect of all or part of the cost of such support) to organisations and/or agencies external to the Group, including (where appropriate) those who provide money advice, debt advice, advice on welfare rights, social work support, food banks/food parcels or assistance with meeting energy costs. 5.2 To relieve unemployment by providing financial assistance to individuals who are in a state of poverty to enable them to access educational, training and/or work experience opportunities which will increase their prospects for obtaining paid employment. 5.3 To prevent and/or relieve poverty, advance education, advance the arts, advance health, advance citizenship and community development, advance public participation in sport, advance environmental protection or improvement and/or relieve those who are in need by reason of financial hardship, ill health, disability or other disadvantage, by developing, supporting (whether financially and/or through assisting with funding applications and/or by other means), co-ordinating and/or delivering a range of programmes and initiatives directed towards one or more of those aims. in each case, to the extent that this would (a) promote or improve the economic, social or environmental well-being of those occupying the houses provided or managed by organisations within the Group (either alone, or along with other people) or (ii) promote or improve the economic, social or environmental well-being of the areas in which houses provided by organisatio
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Total income | Donations | Charitable activities income | Trading income | Investment income | Other income | Total expenditure | Raising funds | Charitable activities spending | Other spending | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2025 | £8,514,000 | £6,831,000 | £1,448,000 | £0 | £235,000 | £0 | £8,803,000 | £0 | £8,803,000 | £0 | 0 | 20 October 2025 |
| 31 March 2024 | £8,639,000 | £6,450,000 | £2,025,000 | £0 | £164,000 | £0 | £9,258,000 | £0 | £9,258,000 | £0 | 0 | 17 December 2024 |
| 31 March 2023 | £11,786,000 | £10,435,000 | £1,351,000 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £6,596,000 | £0 | £6,566,000 | £30,000 | 0 | 1 November 2023 |
| 31 March 2022 | £5,320,000 | £4,330,000 | £990,000 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £4,894,000 | £0 | £4,879,000 | £15,000 | 0 | 2 December 2022 |
| 31 March 2021 | £6,566,000 | £5,408,000 | £1,158,000 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £6,150,000 | £0 | £6,145,000 | £5,000 | 0 | 2 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
- Wheatley House, 25 Cochrane Street, Glasgow
- Website supplied to OSCR
- https://www.wheatley-group.com/better-lives/wheatley-foundation
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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