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WEvolution

Country
Scotland
Charity number
SC043994
Status
Removed
Registered
May 8, 2013
Removed
March 19, 2026
Legal form
SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

Address

Address
58 Queen Mary Avenue
Glasgow
G42 8DT

Contact

Website
wevolution.org.uk
Website screenshot

Activities

'It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals','It carries out activities or services itself'

'the prevention or relief of poverty','the advancement of education','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'

WEvolution aims to empower women in Scotland through peer-led social support groups known as Small, Powerful Groups (SPGs), formerly known as self-reliant groups. WEvolution supports these SPGs by providing 121 support to get groups up and running, bespoke and tailored microbusiness support, a range of training opportunities and workshops, and microfinance initiatives.

Beneficiaries: 'Other defined groups','No specific group, or for the benefit of the community'

Objectives: The SCIO's purposes are: 4.1 To advance citizenship and community development. 4.2 To prevent and/or relieve poverty. 4.3 To advance education and training. and 4.4 To relieve those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage. through: (a) encouraging women and/or men within economically disadvantaged communities in Scotland to voluntarily come together in Self-Reliant Groups (operating under principles of self-help, solidarity and collective enterprise) - trusting and enabling those women and/or men to become leaders and enterprising agents of social and economic change in their local communities as well as relieving their own conditions of financial hardship and/or other disadvantage. and (b) providing ongoing practical support for such Self-Reliant Groups combined with a monitoring role, and in particular to ensure that they uphold standards of best practice as regards governance and transparency and that their activities remain focused on advancing the charitable purposes set out above.

Geography

Main operating location
Glasgow City
Geographical spread
Operations cover all or most of Scotland

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure
Dec. 31, 2025 - -