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Global Development Group SCIO

SC051489Registered charity from 12 January 2022
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Information about this charity:
Charity Information Operations Annual Submissions Income and Expenditure Charity Trustees
Charity Information:
Address 1 The Meadows
Stirling
Postcode FK95AE
Website No Link Provided
Regulatory Type Standard
Object:
4.1 Primary Purposes: 4.1.1 to provide for the prevention or relief of poverty, sickness, suffering, distress, misfortune, disability and helplessness of people found in the United Kingdom and overseas regardless of sex, race, ethnic background, religion, political beliefs or marital status, and will be achieved through the mobilisation of resources for aid and development purposes; 4.1.2 To assist, by all means available persons who are in need, in poverty or otherwise disadvantaged including (but without limiting the generality of the foregoing) the provision of any or all of the following: 4.1.2.1 rural development; 4.1.2.2 capacity building; 4.1.2.3 infrastructure development; 4.1.2.4 education; 4.1.2.5 emergency relief; 4.1.2.6 community development; 4.1.2.7 health; 4.1.2.8 environment; 4.1.2.9 governance; 4.1.2.10 micro finance; 4.1.2.11 micro enterprise; 4.1.2.12 gender.
Operations:
What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:
Global Development Group exists to relieve poverty in a tangible way and provide long-term solutions through the delivery of quality aid and development projects together with our partners around the world. Global Development Group believes our partnership model is an effective approach that leverages the strengths of each partner while maintaining collaboration and transparency. Through a small-scale, grassroots approach our development projects are implemented in consultation with the local beneficiary community to identify the needs they want to address, utilising their existing resources, knowledge, skills and materials. We seek to build local capacity empowering beneficiaries to become responsible for their own development and ensuring sustainable impact.
Charity Status: Active
Constitutional Form: SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
Constitutional Form Date: 12 Jan 2022
Main Operating Location: Stirling
Number of Staff: 0
Number of Volunteers: 1-50
Purposes: "the prevention or relief of poverty", "the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage"
Beneficiaries: "Other defined groups"
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
05 Apr 2023 £1,000 £600 09 Oct 2023 Yes
05 Apr 2024 £98,913 £13,649 10 May 2024 Yes
05 Apr 2025 £63,133 £145,345 02 Oct 2025 Yes Download
05 Apr 2026 No Annual Information due by 05 Jan 2027
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
Ronald Edwards
David Pearson
Michael Strachan
Kerry Edwards
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