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Scottish Cremation Society Ltd

SC015310Registered charity from 30 July 1954
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Information about this charity:
Charity Information Operations Annual Submissions Income and Expenditure Charity Trustees
Charity Information:
Address The Scottish Cremation Society
4th Floor The Reel House
7 West Regent Street
Glasgow
Lanarkshire
Postcode G2 1RW
Website glasgowcrematorium.co.uk
Regulatory Type Standard
Link to Companies House https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/
Object:
2.1 To promote and carry out inexpensive and at the same time sanitary methods of disposal of the dead, which shall best tend to render the remains innocuous and shall minimise pollution of the environment, including cremation and, if found by research and testing to be efficacious in these respects, resomation and any other method of disposal of the dead which is inexpensive, sanitary, advances public health and minimises pollution of the environment; and 2.2 To publish information on all matters tending to promote and explain cremation, resomation and any other method (including future methods) of disposal of the dead as described in article 2.1 above in the form of publications, lectures and other methods of communication in a manner to further promote inexpensive sanitary and pollution minimised methods of disposal of the dead.
Operations:
What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:
To promote and carry out inexpensive and at the same time, sanitary methods of disposal of the dead, which shall best tend to render the remains innocuous and shall minimise pollution of the environment, including cremation and, if found by research and testing to be efficacious in these respects, resomation and any other method of disposal of the dead which is inexpensive, sanitary, advances public health and minimises pollution of the environment; and 2.2 To publish information on all matters tending to promote and explain cremation, resomation and any other method (include future methods) of disposal of the dead as described in article 2.1 above in the form of publications, lectures and other methods of communication in a manner to further promote inexpensive sanitary and pollution minimised methods of disposal of the dead The services provided and the charges for the services are intended to allay funeral poverty.
Charity Status: Active
Constitutional Form: Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)
Constitutional Form Date: 30 Jul 1954
Main Operating Location: Glasgow City
Number of Staff: 9
Number of Volunteers: 0
Purposes: "the advancement of health", "the advancement of citizenship or community development", "the advancement of environmental protection or improvement", "any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes"
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
31 Dec 2021 £1,228,040 £1,112,106 21 Sept 2022 Yes
31 Dec 2022 £1,159,664 £1,116,034 21 Sept 2023 Yes
31 Dec 2023 £1,252,795 £1,139,719 17 Sept 2024 Yes
31 Dec 2024 £1,227,806 £1,159,986 24 Sept 2025 Yes Published accounts can be found on the Companies House website
31 Dec 2025 No Annual Information due by 30 Sept 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
John Morse
Linsay Colville
Andrew McFarlane
Gordon Armour
Iain Atack
John Chapman
Mark Johnstone
Alasdair Ronald
Maureen Smith
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