01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- 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
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 April 2026 | £82,222 | £84,551 | 0 | 15 June 2026 |
| 5 April 2025 | £63,133 | £145,345 | 0 | 2 October 2025 |
| 5 April 2024 | £98,913 | £13,649 | 0 | 10 May 2024 |
| 5 April 2023 | £1,000 | £600 | 0 | 9 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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