OSCR Scottish charity profile

Global Development Group SCIO

ActiveCharity number SC051489
Registered12 January 2022
Main locationStirling
Legal formSCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC051489
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
UK and overseas
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
FK95AE

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Activities include the promotion of humanitarian, aid and development projects in developing countries that GDG carries out in partnership with local grassroots organisations. Engaging with donors and interested groups in Scotland and the wider United Kingdom, the charity seeks to fund, resource and implement overseas projects in partnership with local organisations across multiple sectors of development including education, food security, maternal and child health, governance strengthening and capacity building, livelihood development, train

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

  • Other defined groups

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

4.1 Primary Purposes: 4.1.1 to provide for the prevention or relief of poverty, sickness, suffering, distress, misfortune, disability and helplessness of people found in the United Kingdom and overseas regardless of sex, race, ethnic background, religion, political beliefs or marital status, and will be achieved through the mobilisation of resources for aid and development purposes. 4.1.2 To assist, by all means available persons who are in need, in poverty or otherwise disadvantaged including (but without limiting the generality of the foregoing) the provision of any or all of the following: 4.1.2.1 rural development. 4.1.2.2 capacity building. 4.1.2.3 infrastructure development. 4.1.2.4 education. 4.1.2.5 emergency relief. 4.1.2.6 community development. 4.1.2.7 health. 4.1.2.8 environment. 4.1.2.9 governance. 4.1.2.10 micro finance. 4.1.2.11 micro enterprise. 4.1.2.12 gender.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

4 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
5 April 2026£82,222£84,551015 June 2026
5 April 2025£63,133£145,34502 October 2025
5 April 2024£98,913£13,649010 May 2024
5 April 2023£1,000£60009 October 2023

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
1 The Meadows , Stirling
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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