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Highland Senior Citizens Network

SC034260Registered charity from 16 December 2002
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Information about this charity:
Charity Information Operations Annual Submissions Income and Expenditure Charity Trustees
Notes:
This SCIO was incorporated on 7 February 2013 as a result of a Change to SCIO application by Highland Senior Citizens Network SC034260, which was an unincorporated association registered as a charity since 16 December 2002.
Charity Information:
Address Shamrock Mac
3 Young Street
Inverness
Postcode IV3 5BL
Website www.hscn.co.uk
Regulatory Type Standard
Object:
The organisation’s purposes are to encapsulate the mission “nothing about us without us” for older people services: 4.1 To advance education, relieve poverty and promote the social recreational and welfare good of older people resident in the Highland area, 4.2 To combat social isolation, marginalisation and powerlessness experienced by older people living in the Highland area through collective advocacy, including: 4.2.1 Developing and monitoring the quality and effectiveness of services for older people across the Highland area, 4.2.2 Stimulating and helping to facilitate innovative work in service development at local and national levels, and 4.2.3 Promoting social inclusion, equality and diversity and active participation in older people services in the Highland area. 4.3 By assisting the work of statutory, public and voluntary organisations in relation to provision of such facilities, and 4.4 By doing anything which promotes the purposes provided that such will not relieve any such organisation of its statutory responsibility.
Operations:
What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:
The organisation’s purposes are to encapsulate the mission “nothing about us without us” for older people services. To advance education, relieve poverty and promote the social recreational and welfare good of older people resident in the Highland area. To combat social isolation, marginalisation and powerlessness experienced by older people living in the Highland area through collective advocacy, including. Developing and monitoring the quality and effectiveness of services for older people across the Highland area. Stimulating and helping to facilitate innovative work in service development at local and national levels. Promoting social inclusion, equality and diversity and active participation in older people services in the Highland area. By assisting the work of statutory, public and voluntary organisations in relation to provision of such facilities. By doing anything which promotes the purposes provided that such will not relieve any such
Charity Status: Active
Constitutional Form: SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
Constitutional Form Date: 07 Feb 2013
Previous Constitutional Form: Unincorporated association
Previous Constitutional Form Date: 16 Dec 2002
Main Operating Location: Highland
Number of Staff: 2
Number of Volunteers: 0
Purposes: "the prevention or relief of poverty", "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 does none of these"
Annual Submissions:
Year End Income Expenditure Annual Return Received Accounts Received Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
31 Mar 2022 £55,161 £48,314 12 Jul 2022 Yes
31 Mar 2023 £53,825 £60,244 03 Oct 2023 Yes
31 Mar 2024 £55,425 £58,913 07 Sept 2024 Yes
31 Mar 2025 £54,280 £49,615 19 Oct 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
Brenda Nicolson
Robert Polson
Joan Philip
Lesley McDade
Brian Devlin
Robert Kay
Linda Bailey
Irene Robertson
Evelyn Sinclair
Henry McNamara
David Hannah
Isla Cuthbert
Ann McKay
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