Charity Details

Penicuik Community Development Trust Ltd

SC037990Registered charity from 26 March 2007

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Charity Information:

Address Penicuik Community Development Trust Ltd
Pen-y-Coe Press
7 Bridge Street
Penicuik
Midlothian

Postcode EH26 8LL

Website www.penicuikcdt.co.uk

Regulatory Type Standard

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

Object:

Objects 4 The company has been formed to benefit principally the community of Penicuik which comprises those living in postcode EH26 (“the Community”) without distinction of any protected characteristic defined in Part Two, Chapter 1, of the Equality Act 2010 (age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or beliefs, sex, sexual orientation), by actions with the following objects: 4.1 to advance community development; 4.2 to advance education; 4.3 to advance the arts, heritage, culture and science; 4.4 to provide facilities, or assist in the provision of facilities, available to the members of the Community and to the public at large, for recreation and other leisure time activities in the interests of social welfare so that the conditions of life may be improved; 5 The company’s objects are restricted to those set out in article 4 (but subject to article 6). 6 The company may (subject to first obtaining the consent of OSCR) add to, remove or alter the statement of the company’s objects in article 4; on any occasion when it does so, it must give notice to the registrar of companies and the amendment will not be effective until that notice is registered on the register of companies.

Operations:

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

The purpose, principally for the benefit of the community living in postcode EH26, is to improve the vibrancy of community life. Our volunteers run regular activities in Penicuik: bike recycling; two events in the Town Hall each week – Cinema and the Open House social get together; Scotland’s premier paper making museum; the community garden and orchard; and Penicuik’s sharing library of tools and other things. In addition, the volunteers run a print and stationery shop at the charity’s headquarters building, which they also use to provide meeting facilities and workshops teaching heritage crafts. Many of the volunteers also support the Midlothian Climate Action Network and its practical initiatives to develop community solar and heating projects.

Charity Status: Active

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

Constitutional Form Date: 26 Mar 2007

Main Operating Location: Midlothian

Number of Staff: 0

Number of Charity Trustees: 6

Number of Volunteers: 1-50

Purposes: "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"

Beneficiaries: "No specific group, or for the benefit of the community"

Types Of Activity Undertaken: "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
31 Mar 2021	£283,610	£94,056	06 Dec 2021	Yes
31 Mar 2022	£130,512	£98,358	24 Nov 2022	Yes
31 Mar 2023	£126,621	£83,690	30 Sept 2023	Yes
31 Mar 2024	£59,667	£85,022	03 Dec 2024	Yes
31 Mar 2025	£67,929	£91,147	20 Dec 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
Christopher	Sydes
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First Name

Last Name

Christopher

Sydes

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