Charity Details

Drylaw Telford Community Association (SCIO)

SC022867Registered charity from 10 August 1994

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Notes:

This SCIO was incorporated on 30 December 2015 as a result of a Change to SCIO application by Drylaw Telford Community Association, which was an Unincorporated Association registered as a charity since 10 August 1994.

Charity Information:

The Name the Charity is Known By Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre

Address Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre
67B Groathill Road North
Edinburgh

Postcode EH4 2SA

Website www.drylawnc.org.uk

Regulatory Type Standard

Object:

The objective of the Association is to address the social, cultural, economic, educational and environmental needs of the population of our defined community, particularly among the most vulnerable in our community. We do this regardless of anyone's age, ability, religion, race, gender identity, or sexuality. We operate for everyone. Our defined community covers the following postcode areas: EH4 2 (Drylaw, Telford, Craigleith), EH4 4(Muirhouse, Siverknowes), EH5 1(Waterfront) and EH5 2(West Pilton, Pilton and Wardie). Our members face a wide range of challenges, including poverty, physical and mental health issues, social isolation, learning disabilities, and mobility issues. Many are older adults, refugees, or members of ethnic minority groups. Every aspect of our work is designed to help relieve poverty, to improve mental health through tackling social isolation and to advance community development. We do this through the delivery of activities, events and services aimed to educate, entertain, inspire and feed our members.

Operations:

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

We aim to be the heart of the communities of Drylaw and Telford. We achieve this by running events and activities which the community want and need. Centre users are: - Educated and entertained = Fed and watered - Kept warm = Connected to other local people and able to increase their social networks = Welcomed when they arrive = Developing skills or learning new ones = Empowered to have a voice and are listened to - Able to shape the services/activities we deliver and have a sense of ownership of the Centre = Feel proud of their Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre.

Charity Status: Active

Constitutional Form: SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

Constitutional Form Date: 30 Dec 2015

Previous Constitutional Form: Unincorporated association

Previous Constitutional Form Date: 10 Aug 1994

Main Operating Location: City of Edinburgh

Number of Staff: 4

Number of Charity Trustees: 9

Number of Volunteers: 51-100

Purposes: "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: "Children or young people", "Older People", "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	£136,789	£106,266	02 Dec 2021	Yes
31 Mar 2022	£47,954	£110,137	24 Oct 2022	Yes
31 Mar 2023	£155,944	£128,712	13 Dec 2023	Yes
31 Mar 2024	£138,616	£140,102	10 Dec 2024	Yes
31 Mar 2025	£173,426	£157,460	09 Dec 2025	Yes	Visit Charity's 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
Lesley	Hinds
David	Brownlee
Claire	Heffernan
Victoria	Nicolson
Helen	Todd
Sylvia	Roose
John	Stuart
Martin	Hinds
Jeannette	Robertson
Abdelrahim	Abdelrahman
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