01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC048411
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- Wider, but within one local authority area
- Volunteers
- 51-100 volunteers
- Staff
- 2
- Postcode
- G72 8HY
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
Grow 73 aims to help people of all ages and abilities in Rutherglen and Cambuslang to grow their own food, lead more sustainable lives and support local biodiversity. We hope to play a role in tackling loneliness and exclusion, improve the local environment and support physical and mental health via outdoor activities, promoting ‘Green Health’ and encouraging healthy eating. Our base is the Community Garden in Overtoun Park, Rutherglen. We have over 80 raised beds for hire every year by local individuals and organisations who use the facilities to grow their own food. Volunteer sessions are run twice weekly all year, volunteers doing much of the work to develop and maintain the community garden and surrounding areas. Training is provided, with educational activities for all ages in local schools and within the garden. We work with local groups including health and social work agencies, the Greening Camglen network and groups in South Lanarkshire via the Beeline to Nature project.
Charitable purposes
- the advancement of education
- the advancement of health
- 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
- Children or young people
- Older People
- People with disabilities or health problems
- People with a particular ethnic or racial origin
- 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 organisations purposes are: To advance education in relation to gardening, local food growing, healthy eating, composting, and matters relating to the environment, biodiversity and living more sustainably. To advance physical and mental health and wellbeing by providing improved access to the outdoor environment, promoting an active lifestyle through participation in gardening and other outdoor leisure opportunities and promoting the benefits of growing and consuming healthy food in order to help maintain or improve health. To advance citizenship and community development (including the promotion of volunteering) through the provision of community garden spaces and by involving people who might otherwise be socially excluded in gardening, environmental improvement projects, community events and other appropriate activities which harness the skills and energy of the local community and promote community cohesion. To advance environmental protection and improvement through establishing, coordinating, supporting and/or managing projects which are directed towards preserving and making best use of the natural environment for the benefit of the general public and, in particular, those resident in the areas in which Grow 73 operates.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2025 | £126,849 | £90,954 | 2 | 1 December 2025 |
| 31 March 2024 | £105,819 | £87,981 | 2 | 10 December 2024 |
| 31 March 2023 | £55,911 | £84,989 | 2 | 8 November 2023 |
| 31 March 2022 | £53,114 | £69,313 | 2 | 21 December 2022 |
| 31 March 2021 | £60,098 | £23,093 | 2 | 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
- 12 Kirk Mews, Cambuslang, Glasgow
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.grow73.org
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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