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Durness Community Group

SC032179Registered charity from 05 September 2001
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Information about this charity:
Charity Information Operations Annual Submissions Income and Expenditure Charity Trustees
Notes:
This SCIO was incorporated on 16 December 2020 as a result of the conversion of a charitable company (Durness Development Group Limited SC222915)
Charity Information:
Address The Village Hall
Smoo
Durness
Lairg
Sutherland
Postcode IV27 4QA
Website No Link Provided
Regulatory Type Standard
Object:
4. The organisation is established for charitable purposes only, and in particular the objects are: 4.1. To promote the benefit of the inhabitants of Durness and its environs (being the Parish of Durness polling district C01H, as defined by the postcode units IV27 4QQ, IV27 4SL, IV27 4QG, IV27 4UL, IV27 4UJ, IV27 4UN, IV27 4QD, IV27 4QE, IV27 4QB, IV27 4PZ, IV27 4QH, IV27 4PP, IV27 4QA, IV27 4QF, IV27 4PU, IV27 4PY, IV27 4PR, IV27 4PN, IV27 4PW, IV27 4PX, IV27 4PT, IV27 4PS, IV27 4SN “the Community” hereinafter referred to as “the Operating Area”) with the following objects (“the Objects”): without distinction of sex, sexuality, political, religious or other opinions by associating the local statutory authorities, voluntary organisations and inhabitants in a common effort to advance education and to provide facilities, or assist in the provision of facilities in the interest of social welfare for recreation and other leisure-time occupation so that their conditions of life may be improved. 4.2. To relieve poverty among the residents of the Operating Area who are in necessitous circumstances. 4.3. To advance education and to promote training programmes and opportunities for the benefit of the residents of the Operating Area particularly among young people and the unemployed. 4.4 To protect and / or preserve the environment, in consultation with conservation bodies, for the benefit of the general public. 4.5 To promote the advancement of citizenship or community development (including rural regeneration) 4.6 To provide or assist in the provision of housing for people in necessitous circumstances within the Operating Area. 4.7 To promote, establish and operate other schemes for the benefit of the community within the Operating Area provided always that such schemes are charitable in law. 4.8 To manage community land and associated assets for the benefit of the Community and the public in general as an important part of the protection and sustainable development of Scotland’s natural environment, where ‘sustainable development’ means development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. 4.9 All the above clauses (4.1 to 4.8) will be carried out following the principles of sustainable development (where sustainable development means development which meets the needs of the present without compromising and ability of future generations to meet their own needs).
Operations:
What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:
To help our small remote community flourish and thrive.
Charity Status: Active
Constitutional Form: SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
Constitutional Form Date: 16 Dec 2020
Previous Constitutional Form: Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)
Previous Constitutional Form Date: 05 Sept 2001
Main Operating Location: Highland
Number of Staff: 0
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 advancement of environmental protection or improvement", "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
30 Sept 2021 £23,169 £7,939 14 Jun 2022 Yes
30 Sept 2022 £7,027 £1,445 26 Jun 2023 Yes
30 Sept 2023 £32,189 £752 27 Jun 2024 Yes
30 Sept 2024 £63,914 £114,332 30 Jun 2025 Yes Download
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
No charity trustee information available
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