Charity Details

Cottage Family Centre

SC014271Registered charity from 13 April 1987

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Charity Information:

Address The Cottage Family Centre
29-31 Cawdor Cresent
Kirkcaldy
Fife

Postcode KY2 6LH

Website www.thecottagefamilycentre.org.uk

Regulatory Type Standard

Link to Companies House https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/

Object:

To promote the welfare and relieve the needs of families with pre-school children in Kirkcaldy and its environs by: (1) Providing a community resource to support such families and exploring new avenues of childcare and family support not already provided by child centres and nurseries; and (2) Seeking to prevent breakdown with the family, in particular between parent and child; and (3) Promoting action for the eradication, directly or indirectly, of poverty.

Operations:

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

provide support to vulnerable families

Charity Status: Active

Constitutional Form: Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)

Constitutional Form Date: 13 Apr 1987

Main Operating Location: Fife

Number of Staff: 23

Number of Charity Trustees: 5

Number of Volunteers: 1-50

Purposes: "the prevention or relief of poverty", "the advancement of education", "the advancement of health", "the advancement of citizenship or community development"

Beneficiaries: "Children or young people"

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 Mar 2021	£655,625	£585,147	20 Dec 2021	Yes
31 Mar 2022	£747,861	£579,792	09 Dec 2022	Yes
31 Mar 2023	£1,000,851	£825,604	30 Nov 2023	Yes
31 Mar 2024	£967,571	£1,071,397	11 Dec 2024	Yes
31 Mar 2025	£780,957	£964,461	22 Dec 2025	Yes	Published accounts can be found on the Companies House website
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:

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