Charity Details

McSence Ltd

SC016874Registered charity from 11 February 1991

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Notes:

IX. To relieve those in need by reason of age or ill health through operating care for the elderly and infirm services and the provision of training and employment opportunities. X. To advance citizenship for the community and its membership by promoting, establishing and operating other schemes of a charitable nature.

Charity Information:

Address 32 Sycamore Road
Mayfield
Dalkeith
Midlothian

Postcode EH22 5TA

Website www.mcsence.co.uk

Regulatory Type Standard

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

Object:

4. The Charity was formed to benefit the community of Mayfield & Easthouses as defined by the geographic boundary of the Community Council of Mayfield & Easthouses and the wider area of Midlothian as defined by the geographic boundary of Midlothian Council and also works to benefit similar communities in other local authorities across Scotland with the following Purposes (“the Purposes”): I. To prevent and relieve poverty by training for work skills, up-skilling people: through training and development to enhance employment opportunities, encouraging ethical trade, self-employment and entrepreneurial skills and by providing direct grants to individuals or constituted community groups who are in need. II. To advance education by operating training programmes and working with other educational providers to promote and provide educational opportunities. III. To advance community development and regeneration by (a) the management of land and associated assets for the benefit of the community and the public in general following principles of sustainable development, where sustainable development means development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs and (b) the development, maintenance, management or improvement of the physical and economic infrastructure (c) providing premises for not-for-profit organisations and members of the community providing training and employment opportunities that would otherwise be absent from the community, and those providing education, and (d) assisting people who are at a disadvantage because of their economic circumstances. IV. To relieve those in need by reason of age, ill health or disability through operating care services and the provision of training and employment opportunities. V. To advance citizenship for the community and its membership by promoting, establishing and operating other schemes of a charitable nature. VI. To support the charitable purposes of any charitable subsidiary of the Charity.

Operations:

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

The principal objectives of the company as set out in our Memorandum and Articles of Association are to relieve poverty, advance education particularly among the young and unemployed, promote and provide training skills, advance community development, advance community regeneration, promote civic responsibility, to relieve those in need by reason of age or ill health and to advance citizenship for the community and its membership. McSence has a fundamental belief and expertise in the empowerment of communities to help themselves by encouraging partnerships between all aspects of those communities through self-help and increased public awareness.

Charity Status: Active

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

Constitutional Form Date: 11 Feb 1991

Main Operating Location: Midlothian

Number of Staff: 240

Number of Volunteers: 0

Purposes: "the prevention or relief of poverty", "the advancement of education", "the advancement of citizenship or community development", "the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage"

Beneficiaries: "No specific group, or for the benefit of the community"

Types Of Activity Undertaken: "It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals", "It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations"

Annual Submissions:

Year End	Income	Expenditure	Annual Return Received	Accounts Received	Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
31 Mar 2022	£4,341,345	£3,999,965	20 Dec 2022	Yes
31 Mar 2023	£5,004,525	£4,714,210	15 Dec 2023	Yes
31 Mar 2024	£5,667,928	£4,892,110	22 Nov 2024	Yes
31 Mar 2025	£7,250,929	£6,536,760	13 Nov 2025	Yes	Published accounts can be found on the Companies House website
31 Mar 2026			No	Annual Information due by 31 Dec 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
Barry	Cassells
Robert	Hogg
Stuart	MacArthur
Christopher	Olley
Sharon	Hill
Scott	Paterson
Theresa	Morrison
Michael	Hogg
Barbara	Ramsay
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