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Volunteer Centre -The Centre For Volunteering Community Action And Employment Initiatives Ltd

A Registered Charity based in Scotland

This organisation's identifier is GB-SC-SC005462 .
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Description

The company’s objects are to benefit the inhabitants of the West of Scotland through: - Promoting citizenship and community development by: (a) Establishing and providing the means by which individuals interested in volunteering may receive information, training, assistance or support that shall enable them to play an active role in volunteering. (b) Assisting other voluntary and statutory bodies to extend the range of volunteering opportunities. (c) Providing assistance to individuals, groups, charitable bodies or statutory agencies concerned with community action, volunteering and employment. (d) Providing and assisting in the provision of training and learning opportunities with a view to developing skills which will assist people to find work. (e) Disseminating information in order to promote good policy and practice in volunteering. And the relief of need by: (f) Developing facilities and opportunities of benefit to unemployed people and other disadvantaged groups, including temporary employment and training projects and related initiatives. (g) Developing and sustaining a range of community-based care and support services for disadvantaged families and individuals.

Also known as

  • Volunteer Glasgow

OSCR Charity number

SC005462

Registered

Postcode

G1 1UZ

Website

volunteerglasgow.org

Latest income

£480,133 (on )

This organisation record is based on data from Office of Scottish Charity Regulator Charity Register Download published by Office of Scottish Charity Regulator.

Volunteer Centre -The Centre For Volunteering Community Action And Employment Initiatives Ltd

GB-SC-SC005462

Locations

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Registered Office in the UK

Volunteer Centre -The Centre For Volunteering Community Action And Employment Initiatives Ltd

GB-SC-SC005462

Themes and activities

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This organisation has been classified using different categories:

Activities (OSCR)

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Beneficiaries (OSCR)

  • Children or young people
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Purposes (OSCR)

  • The advancement of citizenship or community development
  • The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

International Classification of Non-profit and Third Sector Organizations (ICNP/TSO)

ICNP/TSO categories have been automatically assigned from a machine learning model, as part of the UK Charity Classification project.

  • Technical, vocational and continuing education B31

UK Charity Activity Tags

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  • Beneficiary group BE » Families BE103
  • Charitable activities CA » Policy campaigning and advocacy CA103
  • Charity and VCS support CV
  • Charity and VCS support CV » Volunteering CV104
  • Economic and community development EC » Community development EC101
  • Economic and community development EC » Unemployment EC107
  • Education ED » Training ED300
  • Education ED » Training ED300 » Employability training ED302
  • Facilities FA » Community centre FA103
  • Society SO » Citizenship SO101
  • Social welfare SW » Individual poverty SW105

Volunteer Centre -The Centre For Volunteering Community Action And Employment Initiatives Ltd

GB-SC-SC005462

Charity financial history

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Year ending Income (£) Spending (£)
1986-08-29 Registered as a charity
2017-03-31 1,470,138 1,460,658
2018-03-31 1,398,946 1,375,539
2019-03-31 1,348,036 1,331,639
2020-03-31 793,391 793,084
2021-03-31 874,331 725,203
2022-03-31 473,807 628,144
2023-03-31 480,133 581,863
Income and Spending
Funds and Reserves

Data on funds and reserves are only available for financial years where the charity's income was more than £500,000.

Volunteer Centre -The Centre For Volunteering Community Action And Employment Initiatives Ltd

GB-SC-SC005462

Grants received

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Received 34 grants. Showing most recent 10 grants.

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Date Funder Amount awarded Description
The Henry Smith Charity
Improving Lives
£203,500
3 years
Grant to Volunteer Glasgow
Virgin Money Foundation
Colleagues in the Community
£500
3 months
Grant to Volunteer Glasgow
Nov 2022 to Feb 2023
Virgin Money Foundation
Colleagues in the Community
£500
3 months
Grant to Volunteer Glasgow
Nov 2022 to Feb 2023
BBC Children in Need
Main Grants 2021
£500
Oct 2022
Grant to Volunteer Glasgow
Oct 2022
BBC Children in Need
Main Grants 2021
£92,995
3 years
Grant to Volunteer Glasgow
Sep 2021 to Sep 2024
Virgin Money Foundation
Colleagues in the Community
£500
6 months
Grant to Volunteer Glasgow
Jul 2021 to Jan 2022
Virgin Money Foundation
Colleagues in the Community
£500
6 months
Grant to Volunteer Glasgow
Jul 2021 to Jan 2022
Scottish Government
Wellbeing Fund - Invited applications - Wave 1
£2,000 Volunteer Centre -The Centre For Volunteering Community Action And Employment Initiatives Ltd
Scottish Government
Wellbeing Fund - Open call - Round 1
£6,856 Volunteer Centre -The Centre For Volunteering Community Action And Employment Initiatives Ltd
Virgin Money Foundation
Colleagues in the Community
£500
6 months
Grant to Volunteer Glasgow
Mar 2020 to Sep 2020

Data source

Some grants data comes from funders who publish data using the 360Giving Data Standard. It was accessed using the 360Giving Datastore.

Volunteer Centre -The Centre For Volunteering Community Action And Employment Initiatives Ltd

GB-SC-SC005462

Data sources

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Office of Scottish Charity Regulator

Office of Scottish Charity Regulator Charity Register Download

Last fetched from source: 2024-05-09

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