Charity Details

Potential Living

SC008731Registered charity from 15 June 1990

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Charity Information:

Address John Thomson House
Glencairn Street
Motherwell
Lanarkshire

Postcode ML1 1TT

Website www.potentialliving.org

Regulatory Type Standard

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

Object:

To provide care and support to enable people with learning disabilities and other disabilities or special needs to reach their potential and live a full and active life.

Operations:

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

Potential Living supports people with a range of disabilities to reach their full potential in their local community within either their own tenancy or family home.

Charity Status: Active

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

Constitutional Form Date: 15 Jun 1990

Main Operating Location: North Lanarkshire

Number of Staff: 199

Number of Charity Trustees: 5

Number of Volunteers: 1-50

Purposes: "the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage"

Beneficiaries: "People with disabilities or health problems"

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	£4,746,946	£4,659,664	29 Sept 2021	Yes
31 Mar 2022	£4,994,990	£4,903,179	07 Dec 2022	Yes
31 Mar 2023	£5,522,388	£5,413,068	05 Dec 2023	Yes
31 Mar 2024	£5,657,874	£5,417,210	31 Oct 2024	Yes
31 Mar 2025	£6,320,403	£6,258,552	28 Oct 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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Last Name

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