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Cowal Elderly Befrienders SCIO

SC024686Registered charity from 29 March 1996
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Charity Information Operations Annual Submissions Income and Expenditure Charity Trustees
Notes:
This SCIO was incorporated on 5 March 2013 as a result of a Change to SCIO application by SC024686 Cowal Elderly Befriending Scheme, which was an unincorporated association registered as a charity since 29 March 1996.
Charity Information:
Address 128 John Street
Dunoon
Argyll
Postcode PA23 7BN
Website www.cowalbefrienders.co.uk
Regulatory Type Standard
Object:
4 .1 To provide a range of Befriending services designed to improve quality of life, reduce isolation and loneliness and keep older people independent and active in the community. 4.2 To provide clients with support to access opportunities fo~ social and leisure activities and developing peer support networks. 4.3 To liaise and work with other organisations to develop joint working to maximise benefit to support offered. 4.4 The advancement of the education of the general public, influential individuals and relevant organisations on matters relating to the social welfare of older people. 4.5 The advancement of citizenship through volunteering in the delivery of services.
Operations:
What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:
The Cowal Elderly Befrienders project is based on two interlinked strands of befriending – traditional 1-2-1 befriending support and minibus-facilitated peer-befriending community support. We provide flexible services for referred elderly people living at home in Cowal and Bute and identified to be experiencing the negative effects of loneliness and social isolation. The social circumstances of the elderly people we support have often been limited by health factors and rural isolation. We have developed our work to provide the social support requested by our clients; this development is ongoing and guided by those we support and changes in the locale. The majority of our those supported are in their 80s and 90s; around 30% of clients have a dementia diagnosis. Our resources included experienced staff members, trained volunteers, wheelchair accessible vehicles and a specially designed centre/office in Dunoon.
Charity Status: Active
Constitutional Form: SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
Constitutional Form Date: 05 Mar 2013
Previous Constitutional Form: Unincorporated association
Previous Constitutional Form Date: 29 Mar 1996
Main Operating Location: Argyll And Bute
Number of Staff: 10
Number of Volunteers: 1-50
Purposes: "the advancement of education", "the advancement of citizenship or community development", "the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended"
Beneficiaries: "Older People"
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 2022 £145,507 £171,538 20 Dec 2022 Yes
31 Mar 2023 £210,146 £185,941 31 Jan 2024 Yes
31 Mar 2024 £150,957 £187,532 15 Dec 2024 Yes
31 Mar 2025 £212,056 £234,194 27 Nov 2025 Yes Download
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
Susan Chandler
Karen Torlay
Deborah Rough
Pauline Livingstone
Nance Smith
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