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West Edinburgh Community Support Group

Also known as: Wecsg

Country
Scotland
Charity number
SC052805
Status
Active
Registered
Sept. 7, 2023
Legal form
SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

Address

Address
31 Wester Broom Place
Edinburgh
EH12 7RS

Activities

'It carries out activities or services itself'

'the prevention or relief of poverty','the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage'

To offer help to families experiencing financial and other issues that result in aspects of poverty and or wellbeing. To date we have mainly focused on short term or emergency help, supporting families with packages containing food, household and personal items. We also work in partnership with other local groups to coordinate additional support and help.. Last year we supported over 120 local West Edinburgh families (191 Adults and 254 Children) We are now extending the support throughout the year although for much smaller numbers although we are certain this will increase. Although the offer of emergency help is valuable it is not helping the families we support improve their ongoing situation. We are now managing to move onto the second element of our purposes which is to give people we support the skills and knowledge to allow them to endeavour to improve their situation and hopefully move out of poverty.eg workshops in Benefit awareness and Budget Cookery..etc.

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

Objectives: 4. The organisation's purposes are the relief of poverty and the relief of those in need by: (i) collecting, buying, distributing and coordinating the distribution of items such as food, household items, toys and vouchers. (ii) coordinating the donation of services. (iii) providing advice, assistance, training and advocacy and (iv) recruiting and coordinating volunteers to participate in the achievement of the foregoing purposes all so as to relieve pressure on those with insufficient resources to make reasonable provision for themselves and for their families and so as to help them to enable themselves to find ways to make such provision.

Geography

Main operating location
City of Edinburgh
Geographical spread
A specific local point, community or neighbourhood

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure
March 31, 2026 £0 £0
March 31, 2025 £7,204 £5,708
March 31, 2024 £10,589 £6,381