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Hermitage Hall

SC044887Registered charity from 29 May 2014
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Information about this charity:
Charity Information Operations Annual Submissions Income and Expenditure Charity Trustees
Charity Information:
Address Hermitage Water
Hawick
Scottish Borders
Postcode TD9 0LX
Website No Link Provided
Regulatory Type Standard
Object:
"for the purposes of physical and mental training and recreation, and social, moral and intellectual development through the medium of reading and recreation rooms, library, lectures, classes, recreation or otherwise as may be found expedient of the inhabitants of the Distric of Hermitage in the County of Roxburgh and its immediate vicinity, without distinction of sex or of political, religious or other opinions
Operations:
What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:
Hermitage Hall is the only hall within the Upper Liddesdale and Hermitage Community Council area. Since 1910 it has served a remote, rural community with no village. The Hall is governed by a volunteer management committee elected annually by/from residents of the community. The mission of the committee is to provide/maintain a facility with guiding principles of inclusion, wellbeing, creativity, learning and sustainability. The Hall organises/hosts a large number of activities/events, including coffee mornings, film nights, dances, speaker events, local history presentations and craft fairs. The Hall is hired for various other events (e.g., local charity fundraisers, cycling events support) and is used for community council meetings, corporate presentations, political surgeries and as a polling site. The average annual footfall is approximately 1,200. The Hall also provides an external publicly available defibrillator and is the resilience centre for the ULHCC area.
Charity Status: Active
Constitutional Form: Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
Constitutional Form Date: 29 May 2014
Main Operating Location: Scottish Borders
Number of Staff: 0
Number of Volunteers: 1-50
Purposes: "the advancement of education", "the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended"
Beneficiaries: "No specific group, or for the benefit of the community"
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
30 Sept 2021 £15,639 £3,032 22 Apr 2022 Yes
30 Sept 2022 £2,098 £4,530 13 Apr 2023 Yes
30 Sept 2023 £9,650 £4,732 07 Apr 2024 Yes
30 Sept 2024 £5,533 £11,994 26 Feb 2025 Yes
30 Sept 2025 £38,270 £47,272 23 Feb 2026 Yes Download
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
Heather McCormack
Margaret Eliott
Henrietta Matthews
Alice Forster
John Scott
Penelope Scott
Donald Herbert
Robert Fleming
Norman Laing
Mark Sydenham
Beatrice Scott
Martin Steed
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