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Balmore Trust Ltd

SC008930Registered charity from 25 June 1980
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Information about this charity:
Charity Information Operations Annual Submissions Income and Expenditure Charity Trustees
Charity Information:
Address 7 Kersland Drive
Milngavie
Glasgow
Postcode G62 8DG
Is the supplied address a principal office or a trustee address? Trustee - Charity Trustee
Website No Link Provided
Regulatory Type Standard
Link to Companies House https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/
Object:
To relieve poverty, distress and suffering in any part of the world (including starvation, sickness or any physical disability or affliction) when arising from any public calamity (including famine, earthquake, war or civil disturbance) or the immediate or continuing result of want of natural or artificial resources or the means to develop them or howsoever otherwise arising.
Operations:
What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:
The Balmore trust was set up to relieve poverty, with a particular focus on partnerships with smallholder farmers and their communities in Africa. It works to promote trade justice, working through, and supporting, its fair trade subsidiary, JTS. It works with and supports its producer partners to deliver capacity building projects aimed at supporting them to develop sustainable livelihoods.
Charity Status: Active
Constitutional Form: Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)
Constitutional Form Date: 25 Jun 1980
Main Operating Location: East Dunbartonshire
Number of Staff: 0
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", "the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science", "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", "any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes"
Beneficiaries: "Children or young people", "Other defined groups", "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 Jan 2022 £46,460 £63,969 05 Oct 2022 Yes
31 Jan 2023 £46,460 £56,510 03 Jul 2023 Yes
31 Jan 2024 £156,890 £117,529 18 Oct 2024 Yes
31 Jan 2025 £69,055 £191,287 15 Oct 2025 Yes Published accounts can be found on the Companies House website
31 Jan 2026 No Annual Information due by 31 Oct 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:
First Name Last Name
Mary Popple
John Riches
Stephen Hayes
Joyce Davidson
Elizabeth Davidson
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