Charity Details

Operation Heart Start

SC002319Registered charity from 01 December 1987

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Notes:

Previous charity name Heart Start from 01 December 1987 to 19 November 2021

Charity Information:

Address Braeriach
East Grange
St Andrews

Postcode KY16 8LL

Is the supplied address a principal office or a trustee address? Trustee - Charity Trustee

Website www.heartstart.org

Regulatory Type Standard

Object:

To undertake or promote any charitable work approved by the Committee and in particular:- (1) To purchase defibrillators and other associated medical equipment, as may be determined from time to time by the Committee, for the use in emergency medical treatment in the locality of St Andrews and District (2) To undertake and make funds available for public awareness training in Basic Life Support and the use of public access defibrillators. (3) The Committee may at their discretion, delegate the organisation of the training to any properly constituted group fulfilling the criteria laid down by the Resuscitation Council of the United Kingdom.

Operations:

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

To undertake or promote any charitable work approved by the committee and in particular: 1) To purchase defibrillators and other associated medical equipment, as may be determined from time to time by the Committee, for the use in emergency medical treatment in the locality of St Andrews and District. 2) To undertake and make funds available for public awareness training in Basic Life Support and the use of public access defibrillators. 3) The Committee may at their discretion, delegate the organisation of training to any properly constituted group fulfilling the criteria laid down by the Resuscitation Council of the United Kingdom.

Charity Status: Active

Constitutional Form: Unincorporated association

Constitutional Form Date: 01 Dec 1987

Main Operating Location: Fife

Number of Staff: 0

Number of Volunteers: 1-50

Purposes: "the saving of lives"

Beneficiaries: "People with disabilities or health problems", "No specific group, or for the benefit of the community", "Other charities or voluntary bodies"

Types Of Activity Undertaken: "It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations", "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	£3,713	£3,561	23 Dec 2021	Yes
31 Mar 2022	£12,408	£17,171	02 Dec 2022	Yes
31 Mar 2023	£6,669	£11,369	01 Dec 2023	Yes
31 Mar 2024	£7,956	£19,240	27 Nov 2024	Yes
31 Mar 2025	£8,219	£4,615	04 Dec 2025	Yes	Not published by OSCR
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
WIlliam	Whyte
Hamish Adie	Tait
John Charles	Ardley
Kirsteen Drummond	Hastie
Alan William	Constable
Jean Evelyn	Bain
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