Charity Details

Community Links Scotland

SC032934Registered charity from 28 March 2002

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Charity Information:

Address 63 Kilbowie Road
Clydebank

Postcode G81 1BL

Website www.comlinks.org.uk

Regulatory Type Standard

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

Object:

(1) To relieve poverty among the residents of the Communities Scotland region referred to as North and South Clyde (covering the six local authorities of Argyll & Bute, West Dunbartonshire, East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire and Inverclyde) and such other areas as the directors may consider appropriate from time to time ("the Operating Area"). (2) To relieve unemployment for the pubic benefit in such ways as may be thought fit, including assistance to find employment. (3) To advance education among the residents of the Operating area. (4) To preserve, restore and improve the environment through the provision, maintenance andlor improvement of public open space and other public amenities, and other environmental and townscape regeneration projects, and in doing so, to seek wherever appropriate (but subject to appropriate safeguards to ensure that the public benefit so arising clearly outweighs any private benefit thereby conferred on private landowners) to carry out works of reclamation, remediation, restoration and other operations to facilitate the use for those purposes of land whose use has been prevented or restricted because of previous use. (5) To relieve the needs of people suffering from mental and/or physical disability, illness or impairment. (6) To provide in the interests of social welfare facilities within the Operating Area for recreation and other leisure time occupation available to the public at large with a view to improving their conditions of life. (7). To promote, establish, operate and/or support other schemes and projects of a charitable nature for the benefit of the community within the Operating Area.

Operations:

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

Community Links Scotland (CLS) is a charitable, not-for-profit organisation established in 2002 to support voluntary-run, community-based groups across Scotland. CLS works exclusively with not-for-profit organisations to identify community needs and aspirations, and to develop and implement regeneration projects that enhance local quality of life. We do this by conducting research to identify service gaps, developing sustainable business and action plans, securing funding, and supporting projects from initial concept through to delivery and evaluation. CLS strengthens the role of community groups as regeneration players and builds links between agencies and local people.

Charity Status: Active

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

Constitutional Form Date: 28 Mar 2002

Main Operating Location: West Dunbartonshire

Number of Staff: 11

Number of Volunteers: 0

Purposes: "the prevention or relief of poverty", "the advancement of education", "the advancement of citizenship or community development", "the advancement of environmental protection or improvement", "the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage"

Beneficiaries: "Children or young people", "Older People", "Other defined groups", "Other charities or voluntary bodies"

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 2022	£361,248	£286,637	05 Sept 2022	Yes
31 Mar 2023	£278,105	£265,889	31 Jul 2023	Yes
31 Mar 2024	£403,863	£296,003	09 Oct 2024	Yes
31 Mar 2025	£360,406	£403,388	02 Sept 2025	Yes	Published accounts can be found on the Companies House website
31 Mar 2026			No	Annual Information due by 31 Dec 2026
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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