Charity Details

Ceased date: 01 April 2025

Hospital Broadcasting Service

SC009138Registered charity from 14 October 1970

Notes:

Hospital Broadcasting Service, SC009138 has now wound up and transferred it assets and liabilities to HBS SCIO, SC053770 which is a SCIO. HBS SCIO, SC053770 was established to replace Hospital Broadcasting Service, SC009138.

Charity Information:

The Name the Charity is Known By The Hospital Broadcasting Service

Address Suite 444
Baltic Chambers
50 Wellington Street
Glasgow

Postcode G2 6HJ

Website www.hbs.org.uk

Regulatory Type Standard

Reason For Removal

Object:

The objects of The Service shall be to relieve sickness, infirmity, handicap and old age amongst persons living in the area served by providing a local broadcasting service for hospitals, residential homes, nursing homes for the elderly and other similar establishments. For this purpose, The Service shall maintain a central broadcasting facility.

Operations:

What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:

Provision of a therapeutic radio service with the primary target audience being hospital-based. The organisation has a central broadcasting complex where programmes are presented live, pre-recorded or collated in a 24hr automated transmission system ensuring that the audience is always being served. In addition to the studio-based activities, some of the volunteering team meet the listeers (patients) on hospital wards and encourage them to make requests for personal favourite music choices.

Charity Status: Removed

Constitutional Form: Unincorporated association

Constitutional Form Date: 14 Oct 1970

Main Operating Location: Glasgow City

Number of Staff: 0

Number of Volunteers: 51-100

Purposes: "the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage"

Beneficiaries: "People with disabilities or health problems"

Types Of Activity Undertaken: "It carries out activities or services itself"

Annual Submissions:

Year End	Income	Expenditure	Annual Return Received	Accounts Received	Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
31 Dec 2020	£14,284	£20,460	13 Sept 2021	Yes
31 Dec 2021	£15,327	£14,629	05 Sept 2022	Yes
31 Dec 2022	£10,473	£15,030	04 Jun 2023	Yes
31 Dec 2023	£38,681	£23,576	07 Sept 2024	Yes	Visit Charity's Website
31 Dec 2024			No	Annual Information due by 30 Sept 2025
If an annual return has been received on time (within nine months of the Year End Date), the 'Annual Return Received' box is green . If an annual return is late, the box is red .

Income and Expenditure:

Charity Trustees:

First Name	Last Name
No charity trustee information available
From 09 March 2026, OSCR is required by law to publish the names of a charity’s trustees as part of its Scottish Charity Register entry. We are also required to publish each charity’s annual report and accounts as received from this date, which may include the names of certain individuals. The only exceptions to publication are where a charity or one of its charity trustees applies for this information to be excluded, and OSCR is satisfied that publishing it would jeopardise the safety or security of a person or premises. If the charity trustee information on a Register entry appears blank, this may mean that an exemption applies or that the charity has not yet provided the required details to OSCR. Supplying this information will become mandatory as part of future annual submissions.

First Name

Last Name

No charity trustee information available

From 09 March 2026, OSCR is required by law to publish the names of a charity’s trustees as part of its Scottish Charity Register entry. We are also required to publish each charity’s annual report and accounts as received from this date, which may include the names of certain individuals. The only exceptions to publication are where a charity or one of its charity trustees applies for this information to be excluded, and OSCR is satisfied that publishing it would jeopardise the safety or security of a person or premises.

If the charity trustee information on a Register entry appears blank, this may mean that an exemption applies or that the charity has not yet provided the required details to OSCR. Supplying this information will become mandatory as part of future annual submissions.

From 30 June 2025, OSCR began collecting charity trustee information through OSCR Online. Providing this information is a legal requirement for all charities. The names of trustees will be published on the Scottish Charity Register from early 2026 to promote transparency and strengthen public trust in the sector.

The Scottish Charity Register ("The Register") is subject to Crown database right.

The Scottish Charity Register is licenced under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

When you use this information under the OGL, you should include the following attribution: © Crown Copyright and database right 2020. Contains information from the Scottish Charity Register supplied by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator and licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0.

Charity accounts and constitution – what information do we publish?

The Scottish Charity Register contains key information about a charity’s operations and finances. This includes:

the names of a charity’s trustees (exemptions apply)
its annual report and full accounts, if submitted after 9 March 2026
(Accounts submitted prior to 9 March 2026 will be redacted, or may not be published, depending on the charity’s income level or legal form.)

These changes are designed to improve transparency across the charity sector in Scotland.

Please note that we accept no responsibility for the functionality, accuracy, or content of external websites. If you experience a technical issue with an external link, you should contact the charity directly.

Under section 23(1)(a) and (b) of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005, you have the right to request the following information directly from the charity:

a copy of the charity’s latest statement of accounts
a copy of the charity’s constitution

Back to Previous Page

Charity Number Copied to the Clipboard

Scottish Charity Register