UK Confucian Society (Glasgow)

This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.

The UK Confucian Society was registered as a Scottish charity in Glasgow in 2000, constituted as a trust under a deed of trust rather than around a named founder. No individual founder is recorded; the Society exists by virtue of its founding deed alone, filed with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator under charity number SC031242.

That deed sets out two stated purposes side by side, and they are not obviously related: to promote the moral and spiritual welfare of the community by promoting the teachings of Confucius, and separately, to relieve poverty and assist the elderly through the provision of food and accommodation to those in necessitous circumstances. The Society carries out both at once rather than choosing between a religious-educational mission and a welfare mission.

In practice the two purposes meet at the same events: the Society holds gatherings twice monthly that combine Confucian preaching with communal cooking, and hosts Chinese festival celebrations alongside its direct welfare provision to the poor and elderly, so a single gathering can serve both halves of the founding deed at once rather than running two separate programmes.

This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.

The Society's own annual return, filed with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator for the year ended 30 June 2025, reports total income of 42,751 pounds sterling against total expenditure of 34,315 pounds sterling, leaving a modest surplus for the year. Those figures place the Society among the smaller registered charities in Scotland, consistent with an organization built around twice-monthly gatherings rather than a large staffed operation.

The regulatory filing itself is what confirms the Society's continued active status: rather than relying on a general description of ongoing activity, the entry here rests on a specific, dated government-registry return naming an exact income and expenditure figure for a defined twelve month period. That return covers a charity whose stated purpose separately names relieving poverty and assisting the elderly through the provision of food and accommodation, alongside its promotion of Confucian teaching, so a portion of that 34,315 pounds in expenditure funded both halves of the Society's dual mission at once, run out of a single Glasgow trust with no separate accounts kept for each purpose.