OSCR Scottish charity profile

Baltic Street Adventure Playground SCIO

ActiveCharity number SC048684
Registered5 September 2018
Main locationGlasgow City
Legal formSCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC048684
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
A specific local point, community or neighbourhood
Volunteers
51-100 volunteers
Staff
10
Postcode
G40 3EU

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Baltic Street Adventure Playground is a free, child-led, supervised adventure playground for children, in an area of significant disadvantage. Primarily, we give children access to experiences and activities that are not otherwise available, building a supportive network of families and organisations that develops a sense of community, and empowers its members. Our core Community and Family Sessions that aim to provide a consistently available space for safe play, addressing barriers to communication and creativity while providing emotional, social and physical nurturing for a core group of 90 local children in particular. Our food services distribute over 300,000 nutritious meal portions annually.

Charitable purposes

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

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

4.1 To support the personal, social, physical and emotional development of the young people of the economically and socially isolated communities of Dalmarnock, Parkhead and Bridgeton, East Glasgow by providing free to access high quality outdoor and amenity space. 4.2 To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by supporting children and families at risk from becoming socially excluded through the provision of free to access social space and informal support and supporting the social needs of children and families who are socially or economically excluded. 4.3 To advance the life and relief the needs of young people and their families and carers by providing a team of play-workers who: 4.3.1 support and enable free, child-lead play opportunities, provided in the interest of social welfare, designed to improve their conditions of children’s day-to-day lives. 4.3.2 support activities which develop children’s skills, capacities and capabilities, and enable them to develop a sense of their own agency and their role within their wide community create opportunities to give socially isolated young people access to a wide range of adults to extend their sense of hope and possibility 4.4 To advance the education and development of children and young people, predominantly in their early years the use of our outdoor nursery, by providing and supporting learning opportunities, resources and environments that promote intellectual, social, emotional and physical growth.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 July 2025£474,428£419,9191020 February 2026
31 July 2024£362,536£426,0171014 July 2025
31 July 2023£325,090£331,0591020 May 2024
31 July 2022£253,048£345,1981027 April 2023
31 July 2021£397,947£305,7291028 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
421 Baltic Street, Dalmarnock, Glasgow
Website supplied to OSCR
www.balticstreetadventureplay.co.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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