# South Seeds SCIO

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC042244
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
- **Registered:** April 12, 2011
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC042244


## Contact

- **Address:** 514 Victoria Road, Govanhill, Glasgow
- **Postcode:** G428BG
- **Website:** www.southseeds.org



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the prevention or relief of poverty&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of education&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of health&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of citizenship or community development&#x27;,&#x27;the promotion of religious or racial harmony&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of environmental protection or improvement&#x27;,&#x27;the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage&#x27;

**What the charity does:** Principal activities • To manage and deliver project work in furtherance of our charitable purposes. • To build social enterprise activities in line with our charitable purposes. • To carry out fundraising activities. Project work South Seeds delivers funded projects to enable Southsiders to live more sustainable lives. This financial year South Seeds delivered two main projects. one funded by Energy Redress until November 2025, and the other funded by the National Lottery Community Fund until the end of March 2025. In addition to that, South Seeds worked to progress a number of other short life projects. Also South Seeds’ work to bring the vacant Changing Rooms on Queen’s Park recreation ground back into community use accelerated this year, when construction started on site to transform the former pavilion block into two buildings to provide multifunctional community space. Our team of energy officers funded through Energy Redress have been busy since the energy crisis started in

**Objectives:** The organisation&#x27;s purposes are: To advance environmental protection and improvement in the south of Glasgow through establishing, coordinating, supporting and/or managing schemes and projects which are directed towards supporting environmentally sustainable living and/or regeneration and reducing any negative impacts on the environment. To advance environmental protection and improvement through establishing, coordinating, supporting and/or managing schemes and projects which are directed towards improvements to public realm or other open space for the benefit of the general public and in particular those resident in the areas in which the organisation operates. To advance education, particularly in relation to sustainable low carbon lifestyles, gardening, food production, healthy eating, food preparation, composting, craft skills and matters relating to the environment and sustainability. To advance health through encouraging people to become involved in exercise by participating in environmental improvement projects, gardening and similar activities and by promoting healthy eating, healthy food production and healthy lifestyles. To relieve poverty among the residents of the areas in which the organisation operates by promoting environmentally, economically and socially sustainable practices which assist people of limited means to reduce expenditure on energy, food and other necessities. To advance citizenship and community development (including the promotion of volunteering and the promotion of the voluntary sector) by involving people who might otherwise be socially excluded in environmental improvement projects, gardening, and other appropriate activities. To relieve those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage, and in particular by encouraging them to engage in environmental improvement projects, gardening, and other appropriate activities. For additional purposes contact charity





## Geography

- **Main operating location:** Glasgow City
- **Geographical spread:** Wider, but within one local authority area






