Charity Details

Communities Housing Trust

SC027544Registered charity from 10 February 1998

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Notes:

Previous Name -The Highlands Small Communities Housing Trust. from 02-04-2019 to 14-09-2020 Previous Charity name The Highlands Small Communities’ Housing Trust from 10-02-1998 to 01-04-2019

Charity Information:

Address Suite 4, Second Floor
Moray House
16-18 Bank Street
Inverness

Postcode IV1 1QY

Website www.chtrust.co.uk

Regulatory Type Standard

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

Object:

((1) To provide, or assist in the provision of housing for persons in necessitous circumstances, in the Highlands and Islands Electoral Region of the Scottish Parliament or such other area that may replace it ("the Primary Operating Area") and outside the said Highlands and Islands Electoral Region but always within Scotland ("the Secondary Operating Area") (2) To relieve the needs of persons suffering from mental or physical disability, illness or impairment or old age, through the provision, or assistance in the provision, of housing specially adapted to meet their requirements, primarily, but not exclusively, in the Primary Operating Area. (3) To promote education, particularly in the field of housing, primarily, but not exclusively, in the Primary Operating Area. (4) To promote, establish, operate and/or support schemes and projects of a charitable nature, which promote inclusion, sustainability and wellbeing provided always that these are not dealt with on a commercial basis, for the benefit of communities in the Primary and Secondary Operating Areas. (5) To promote the advancement of citizenship or community development (including rural or urban regeneration and the promotion of civic responsibility, volunteering, the voluntary sector or the effectiveness or efficiency of charities) in the Primary and Secondary Operating Area.

Operations:

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

We work to tackle rural depopulation and deprivation in rural, remote and island communities by facilitating genuinely affordable housing, new housing tenures and models, and other key community facilities. We then protect this housing stock, and its affordability, for local communities in perpetuity, with innovations such as the Rural Housing Burden. Despite the many barriers to rural repopulation, our work increases populations, helps maintain key services such as schools and ferries, grows and diversifies local circular economies, and supports rural trades and skills.

Charity Status: Active

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

Constitutional Form Date: 10 Feb 1998

Main Operating Location: Highland

Number of Staff: 12

Number of Charity Trustees: 7

Number of Volunteers: 0

Purposes: "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 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	£2,809,630	£2,469,319	30 Nov 2021	Yes
31 Mar 2022	£1,784,457	£2,140,095	06 Dec 2022	Yes
31 Mar 2023	£3,367,867	£2,924,537	24 Nov 2023	Yes
31 Mar 2024	£2,735,725	£1,932,157	11 Nov 2024	Yes
31 Mar 2025	£1,721,045	£1,879,207	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
Dion	Alexander
Alister	Steele
Audrey	Sinclair
Alex	Matheson
Julia	Campbell
Blair	Allan
Brendan	O'Hanrahan
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