01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC048858
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Cross Border
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- Scotland and other parts of the UK
- Volunteers
- Not supplied
- Staff
- 425
- Postcode
- SG1 2EF
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
Charitable purposes
- the prevention or relief of poverty
- the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Beneficiaries
- Children or young people
- Older People
- People with disabilities or health problems
- No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
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
4. Objects To promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those people who are socially excluded in particular but not exclusively by: 4.1 Providing information, advice, support, empowerment and advocacy and managing advocacy and user-involvement projects which help people to speak up and to be heard as well as secure their rights and entitlements. 4.2 Supporting the development of empowerment, advocacy and service user-involvement projects which help people. 4.3 Supporting and providing information, advice, support, empowerment and advocacy and user-involvement projects. 4.4 Promoting information, advice, support, empowerment and advocacy and good practice in information, advice, support, advocacy and user-involvement 4.5 Promoting equal opportunities for people. 4.6 Educating and training people and organisations about empowerment, advocacy and user- involvement. 4. 7 Providing information, advice, support, empowerment and advocacy to people and those responsible for providing services to them.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2025 | £15,975,771 | £15,854,635 | 425 | 23 December 2025 |
| 31 March 2024 | £16,086,520 | £15,936,683 | 425 | 9 September 2024 |
| 31 March 2023 | £16,911,291 | £16,643,342 | 425 | 21 November 2023 |
| 31 March 2022 | £15,934,026 | £14,315,376 | 425 | 13 September 2022 |
| 31 March 2021 | £15,624,829 | £14,552,334 | 425 | 15 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
- POhWER, Suite 4, Middlesex House, Meadway Corporate Centre, Rutherford Close, Stevenage
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.pohwer.net
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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