OSCR Scottish charity profile

When I Grow Up (UK)

Known as WIGU (UK)

ActiveCharity number SC047647
Registered17 August 2017
Main locationGlasgow City
Legal formSCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC047647
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Scotland and other parts of the UK
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
G2 6PH

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

To raise money and awareness of children living in poverty specifically in Kenya

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of health
  • the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people
  • Other charities or voluntary bodies

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations

Constitutional objectives

The organisation's purposes are: The specific purposes of this charitable organisation are to help in empowering children between the ages of 4 and 18 living in extreme poverty by forming partnerships with indigenous leaders around the globe who are seeking to value and provide for children through holistic community development. to raise awareness in the United Kingdom of the living conditions of children living in poverty and to raise funds for the relief of poverty by visiting specific areas in which children live in poverty and gaining invitations to speak to people at events in the United Kingdom and present them with personal accounts and photographic evidence of the conditions there and to expend said funds for the relief of said poverty . to support the work of the Charitable Organisation: When I Grow Up - Global, registered in the United States of America, in providing funding and leadership to partners working in impoverished communities in countries throughout the world to bring education and feeding programmes, to children without hope of lifting themselves out of poverty by their own efforts and means and providing business advice and support to adults in those communities to enable them to escape from the cycle of poverty. to develop the work of When I Grow Up (UK) so that it is in a position to provide relief from poverty and provide education and health care in other impoverished areas of the world.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
1 June 2025£620£216024 February 2026
1 June 2024£1,649£216010 February 2025
1 June 2023£2,080£216028 February 2024
1 June 2022£1,259£10,216028 February 2023
1 June 2021£7,695£21609 February 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
Standard Buildings, 94 Hope Street, Glasgow
Website supplied to OSCR
www.whenigrowupglobal.com
Parent charity
When I Grow Up Global

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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