Country

Scotland

Charity number

SC018453

Status

Active

Registered

April 1, 1998

Legal form

Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)

Address

Contact

Website

engagerenfrewshire.com

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'

'the prevention or relief of poverty','the advancement of education','the advancement of health','the advancement of citizenship or community development','the advancement of environmental protection or improvement','the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage'

Engage Renfrewshire is a third sector interface (TSI). this means that we support local charities and other not-for-profit groups. Engage Renfrewshire provides advice and support to all community focussed groups who want to start up or develop further. We support social enterprises, community development trusts, charitable groups, mutual aid groups and more. We help groups to build capacity and to be safe, by providing information, advice and training for everything from charitable structures to funding. We have a comprehensive volunteering service. We support volunteer involving organisations with recruitment and volunteer support, and work with individuals to find them rewarding and uplifting volunteer opportunities. We also work with local charities and public sector bodies to promote volunteering for all. Our financial services social enterprise, Engage Finance, offers payroll, HR and financial services to individuals and organisations in Renfrewshire and beyond.

Beneficiaries: 'Children or young people','No specific group, or for the benefit of the community'

Objectives: 1 The company’s objects are:- 1.1 To promote civic responsibility, volunteering, the voluntary sector or the effectiveness or efficiency of charities principally in Renfrewshire and neighbouring local authorities (“the Operating Area”). 1.2 To relieve poverty primarily among the residents of the Operating Area. 1.3 To advance education primarily among the residents of the Operating Area, particularly among young people and the unemployed. 1.4 To promote training in skills of all kinds, particularly such skills as will assist primarily residents of the Operating Area in obtaining paid employment. 1.5 To advance community development and regeneration primarily within the Operating Area and particularly (but without limitation) through: 1.5.1 assisting in the planning of changes to the housing and physical environment as part of a wider strategy for relief of the problems of poverty within the Operating Area. 1.5.2 the promotion of trade and industry, for the benefit of the general public. 1.6 To advance health (including the provision of health education) and to assist in the relief of ill health primarily among the residents of the Operating Area. 1.7 To promote, operate, establish and/or support other similar projects, programmes and/or schemes which further charitable purposes, particularly for the benefit of residents of the Operating Area, and to do so in a manner which is in line with the aims of Renfrewshire Community Planning Partnership

Geography

Main operating location

Renfrewshire

Geographical spread

Wider, but within one local authority area

Finances

Linked charities

• Childcare First Limited (SC036606)

Nearby

• Childcare First Limited 0.0 mi
• Own Yer Bike 0.0 mi
• Pachedu 0.0 mi
• Ferguslie Seniors 0.0 mi
• Ferguslie Park Housing Association Limited 0.0 mi

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