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Penumbra

SC010387Registered charity from 07 February 1985
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Charity Information Operations Annual Submissions Income and Expenditure Charity Trustees
Charity Information:
Address 3rd Floor, Orchard Brae House
30 Queensferry Road
Edinburgh
Postcode EH4 2HS
Website www.penumbra.org.uk
Regulatory Type Standard
Link to Companies House https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/
Object:
The company is established for charitable objects and purposes only. In particular its objects are: (a) To provide facilities and support for the care and aftercare of persons suffering from mental illness. (b) to promote resettlement and rehabilitation facilities for those disabled by mental illness. (c) to employ professional advisers or workers to promote the object the company and to pay reasonable and proper remuneration for such services. (d) to act as trustees or agents for or to manage money grants or other assistance received from statutory bodies, trusts or other bodies, and to affiliate with any other association, society or body established for charitable purposes only and having, primary object wholly or partly similar to those of the Company and for the purpose of promoting the primary object of the Company to co-operate with the press and other sources of publicity. (e) to purchase, take on lease or in exchange, hire or otherwise acquire and to hold, sell, feu, lease or otherwise dispose of any heritable or moveable property and any rights or, privileges which may be necessary or convenient for the promotion of the objects of the Company and to construct, maintain and alter any buildings or erections necessary or convenient for the work of the company and in particular so to acquire, hold and dispose of furniture, furnishings fixtures and other effects necessary or convenient for the objects of the Company.
Operations:
What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:
We support people on their journey to better mental health, by working with each person to find their own way forward. The power of people’s lived experience enables us to deliver pioneering services which transform lives.
Charity Status: Active
Constitutional Form: Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)
Constitutional Form Date: 07 Feb 1985
Main Operating Location: City of Edinburgh
Number of Staff: 552
Number of Charity Trustees: 10
Number of Volunteers: 1-50
Purposes: "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", "Older People", "People with disabilities or health problems", "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
31 Mar 2021 £11,753,791 £11,138,930 12 Oct 2021 Yes
31 Mar 2022 £12,928,038 £12,768,644 05 Dec 2022 Yes
31 Mar 2023 £16,054,783 £15,814,198 09 Oct 2023 Yes
31 Mar 2024 £18,034,737 £18,360,647 10 Oct 2024 Yes
31 Mar 2025 £18,399,952 £19,106,462 04 Nov 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:
First Name Last Name
Lorna Gilbert
Robert Duff
Paula Sheils
Andy Hardie
Katie Thomson
Geoff Huggins
Ben Glaister
Jane Mackenzie
Sara Robinson
Clare Duffy
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