Charity Details

Westray Development Trust

SC029471Registered charity from 25 October 1999

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Charity Information:

Address Unit 1
Quarry Road
Westray
Orkney
Scotland

Postcode KW17 2DF

Website http://westraydevelopmenttrust.co.uk/

Regulatory Type Standard

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

Object:

The company has been formed to benefit the community of Westray with the following objects: (1) To provide in the interests of social welfare, facilities for recreation and other leisure time occupation available to the public at large in Westray with a view to improving their conditions of life. (2) To advance education and in particular to promote opportunities for learning for the benefit of the general public; (3) To protect and/or preserve the environment for the benefit of the general public; (4) To provide or assist in the provision of housing for people in necessitous circumstances within Westray; (5) To relieve poverty particularly among the residents of the island of Westray; (6) To advance the arts, heritage, culture and science; (7) To relieve those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage (includes relief given by the provision of accommodation and care); (8) To regenerate the community of Westray by the maintenance or improvement of the physical, social and economic infrastructure; (9) To promote, establish, operate and/or support other schemes and projects of a charitable nature for the benefit of the community of Westray

Operations:

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

Our mission is to develop the economic, social and cultural sustainability of our community by harnessing the quality of our resources, people and island environment.

Charity Status: Active

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

Constitutional Form Date: 25 Oct 1999

Main Operating Location: Orkney Islands

Number of Staff: 19

Number of Volunteers: 1-50

Purposes: "the prevention or relief of poverty", "the advancement of education", "the advancement of citizenship or community development", "the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science", "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", "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", "People with disabilities or health problems", "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", "It carries out activities or services itself"

Annual Submissions:

Year End	Income	Expenditure	Annual Return Received	Accounts Received	Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
30 Jun 2021	£844,410	£371,807	23 Mar 2022	Yes
30 Jun 2022	£785,854	£542,143	30 Mar 2023	Yes
30 Jun 2023	£595,043	£543,186	05 Mar 2024	Yes
30 Jun 2024	£839,758	£646,818	20 Feb 2025	Yes
30 Jun 2025	£543,690	£640,635	25 Feb 2026	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
Louis	Pottinger
Douglas	Leslie
Gillian	McEwen
Margaret	Rendall
David	Seatter
Coilla	Drake
George	Thomson
Margaret	Burgher
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