Glasgow & Clyde Rape Crisis Centre

What Glasgow & Clyde Rape Crisis Centre does

Glasgow and Clyde Rape Crisis SCIO (GCRC) is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (Scottish Charity no. SCO06595), founded in 1976, that delivers free, trauma-informed support services to women and girls who have experienced rape or sexual violence in the Glasgow and Clyde region of Scotland. The organisation operates as Scotland's largest rape crisis centre, supporting roughly one in three of Scotland's survivors nationally and serving a catchment of over 650,000 women and girls — approximately one-fifth of Scotland's female population — across six local authority areas (Glasgow, East and West Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Renfrewshire, and Inverclyde). GCRC leads an all-female specialist workforce of 18–28 staff supplemented by trained volunteers, and in 2024/25 recorded 3,100+ survivors receiving one-to-one support and 40,000+ contact points, a 42% year-on-year increase.

Service delivery is multi-channel: a freephone helpline (08088 00 00 14), Connect Live phone/email/text support, 19 community hubs across Glasgow and Clyde running 390+ sessions, and city centre drop-in services. The portfolio is organised around three core pillars — Triage & Survivor Support, Justice & Community Support, and Consultancy & Training Support — supplemented by named programmes including the Rosey youth prevention service, the RUBY service for minority groups, the Fair Play Project for sports organisations, and the Support to Report justice advocacy service. The technology stack is conventional (encrypted software packages and OneDrive for data storage) with no proprietary platform or AI components.

As a non-profit, GCRC generates no commercial revenue. Income is drawn from Scottish Government grants (£549,483 from the Delivering Equally Safe Fund for 2025-26 plus £171,000 from the Victim-Centred Approach Fund), the National Lottery Community Fund, Glasgow Health and Social Care Partnership, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, trusts, foundations, corporate donors, and individual fundraising (Kiltwalk, JustGiving, EasyFundraising). All services are free at the point of use. Following its October 2024 departure from the Rape Crisis Scotland network, GCRC co-founded the Scottish Rape Crisis Alliance in March 2026 with three other centres, representing 41.42% of Scotland's female population across 12 of 32 local authority areas.

Name

Glasgow & Clyde Rape Crisis Centre

Legal name

Glasgow and Clyde Rape Crisis SCIO

Website

https://glasgowclyderapecrisis.org.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1976

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Glasgow and Clyde Rape Crisis SCIO is a 1976-founded Scottish charity providing free trauma-informed support, justice advocacy, and prevention education to women and girls affected by sexual violence across Glasgow and Clyde, delivering services via 19 community hubs, a freephone helpline, and targeted programmes reaching roughly one in three of Scotland's survivors.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Sexual violence survivor support services

NAICS

Individual and Family Services (6241), Social Assistance (624), Other Individual and Family Services (624190)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Domestic Violence & Abuse Support Services (BPAGAEAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Protection, Child Protection & Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Response (BPAGAAAG), Protection Services (GBV, Child Protection, Legal Aid) (BPADADAH), Youth Justice, At-Risk Youth & Violence Prevention Nonprofits (BPAGADAM)

Keywords

• Sexual violence support
• Survivor advocacy services
• Trauma-informed counselling
• Gender-based violence prevention
• Rape crisis helpline

Headquarters

HQ city

Glasgow

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Donations and Fundraising: The organisation relies on donations from individuals, groups, trusts, foundations, and corporate donors. Fundraising activities include Kiltwalk participation, JustGiving, EasyFundraising, Amazon Smile, and direct donations.
2. Scottish Government Funding - Delivering Equally Safe Fund: GCRC receives £549,483 from the Scottish Government's Delivering Equally Safe Fund for 2025-26.
3. Scottish Government Funding - Victim-Centred Approach Fund: GCRC receives £171,000 from the Victim-Centred Approach Fund, administered by Rape Crisis Scotland, to deliver advocacy support to survivors in the Justice system.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Glasgow & Clyde Rape Crisis Centre (GCRC) provides free, confidential, trauma-informed support services to women and girls who have experienced rape or sexual violence across Glasgow and Clyde. Core offerings include crisis triage and one-to-one emotional support, justice advocacy for survivors navigating the criminal justice system, community-based support hubs in 19 local communities, a multi-channel Connect Live helpline, and prevention and education training for schools, sports organisations, and public/private sector bodies.

Product overview

Glasgow & Clyde Rape Crisis SCIO operates as a single-service organization offering a comprehensive portfolio of survivor support services rather than a platform-plus-modules architecture. The core service portfolio includes Triage & Survivor Support (crisis intervention and ongoing support), Justice & Community Support (court and police advocacy), and Consultancy & Training Support (education programmes). Key named services include Connect Live (phone/email/text helpline), Community Support Hubs (decentralized outreach), the Rosey Project (youth prevention education), RUBY Service (minority group support), Emotional & Therapeutic Support (counselling), and the Support to Report Service (justice system navigation). The Fair Play Project extends prevention work into sporting communities. All services are trauma-informed, women-only spaces delivered by trained staff and volunteers across Glasgow and Clyde.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Rosey: Prevention and education service for children, young people and learners in further and higher education in the Glasgow and Clyde area. Stands for 'Rape Crisis Offering Support and Education to Young People'.
• Fair Play Project
• Connect Live

Products and services

• Triage & Survivor Support
• Justice & Community Support
• Connect Live
• Community Support Hubs
• Rosey Project
• RUBY Service
• Emotional & Therapeutic Support
• Support to Report Service
• Fair Play Project
• Consultancy & Training Support

Quantifiable outcome

• 3,100+ survivors supported with one-to-one support in 2024/25
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Scottish Rape Crisis Alliance (SRCA)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 10 March 2026Formal alliance formed by Glasgow and Clyde Rape Crisis, Lanarkshire Rape Crisis Centre, The STAR Centre – Rape Crisis Ayrshire and Western Isles Rape Crisis Centre to advocate for violence against women as a public health issue. Members represent 41.42% of Scotland's female population across 12 of Scotland's 32 local authority areas. All four founding members announced their separation from Rape Crisis Scotland.
• Scottish Government / COSLAcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 19 August 2024Partnership on the Equally Safe Delivery Plan focused on prevention of abuse across Scotland's diverse communities. Launch included visit from Equalities Minister Kaukab Stewart and COSLA's Community Wellbeing Spokesperson Councillor Maureen Chalmers.
• Partick Thistle Football ClubcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 6 June 2024Partnership through the Fair Play Project to end gender-based violence in sports. Includes First Responder training for staff and volunteers, bystander culture development, and work with young players on healthy relationships, consent, and attitudes around gender and violence. Building on existing 'Her Game Too' relationship via Kirsten Fraser.

Scale indicators7 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Refuge: UK-wide charity providing specialist support for women and children experiencing domestic abuse, including the National Domestic Abuse Helpline. Larger geographic footprint but adjacent GBV-crisis mission makes it a comparable funding-model and service-mix peer.
• Women's Aid Federation of England: National federation coordinating English domestic abuse services. Operates a parallel feminist, women-led service model to GCRC with multi-channel helpline, refuge support, training and policy advocacy — useful peer for benchmarking training and prevention income.
• Rape Crisis Scotland: National umbrella body for rape crisis centres in Scotland. GCRC's membership was withdrawn in October 2024, making Rape Crisis Scotland the closest structural counterpart at the national-coordination level; both organisations operate in the same sector with overlapping service definitions.
• Scottish Women's Aid: National umbrella organisation for domestic abuse services across Scotland, parallel to Rape Crisis Scotland for a related but distinct survivor population. Adjacent peer given overlap on gender-based violence support, refuge provision and policy advocacy.

Direct peers

• Western Isles Rape Crisis Centre: Fourth SRCA co-founder with GCRC. Operates the same rape crisis service model for women and girls in Scotland's island communities, including outreach to remote geographies — directly comparable to GCRC's community hub philosophy of decentralised service.
• Edinburgh Rape Crisis Centre: Edinburgh-based specialist rape crisis service offering one-to-one emotional support, advocacy, and prevention education to women and girls in the East of Scotland. Operates the same trauma-informed, women-only, single-sex model as GCRC and is the most direct operational peer in another Scottish city.
• The STAR Centre – Rape Crisis Ayrshire: Ayrshire-based rape crisis centre and SRCA co-founder. Provides helpline, face-to-face and group support for survivors of sexual violence across Ayrshire, sharing GCRC's single-sex feminist model and the same trauma-informed approach to service delivery.
• Lanarkshire Rape Crisis Centre: Co-founding partner of the Scottish Rape Crisis Alliance (SRCA) alongside GCRC in March 2026. Delivers the same core rape crisis service model (helpline, one-to-one support, advocacy) to women and girls across Lanarkshire, making it a directly comparable service-delivery peer.

Emerging players

• SurvivorsUK: Specialist charity supporting male and non-binary survivors of sexual violence in the UK. Adjacent peer in the same sector; operates from a contrasting single-sex/identity position to GCRC, illustrating an alternative service model within the broader rape-crisis ecosystem.
• Womankind (Bristol): Bristol-based specialist support service for women experiencing domestic abuse and sexual violence. Smaller-scale but operationally similar trauma-informed, women-only model with helpline, one-to-one support and prevention training — closely comparable service mix to GCRC.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/RCCGlasgow
• Facebookfacebook.com/profile.php?id=100093481194312
• Instagraminstagram.com/glasgowandclydercc
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/glasgow-clyde-rape-crisis-centre

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Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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