Charity Details

Mearns And Coastal Healthy Living Network

SC038980Registered charity from 23 November 2007

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Documents overdue: 6 months, 5 days

This charity failed to provide all of the information on its finances by its annual submission deadline.

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Charity Information:

Address 44 High Street
Laurencekirk
Aberdeenshire

Postcode AB30 1AB

Website www.mchln.org.uk

Regulatory Type Standard

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

Object:

To advance the health and positive mental health of older people , resident in South Aberdeenshire by supporting their continued independence within the community through provision of services, by relieving social isolation within the rural setting through social activity and through provision of appropriate activity and involvement in active volunteering. To advance the citizenship of older people by encouraging involvement in planning and decisions about services, encouraging intergenerational skills sharing and by ensuring that older people's views are expressed and acted upon appropriately; to advance the involvement of older people in community development by encouraging active volunteering and by raising awareness of the value of older people's contributions. To advance education by provision and access to training and skills and by providing information about wider opportunities available. To provide a range of recreational activities for older people.

Operations:

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

Supporting the health & wellbeing of the over 50s in Kincardine & Mearns, Mearns and Coastal Healthy Living Network is a community-led charity that engages some 200 people a week via a 100-strong volunteer network, supported by a small staff team. Primarily, we are a peer-to-peer organisation – it’s older people supporting older people. Our main aims are to support older people to live as independently at home as possible for longer, combat the effects of loneliness and isolation, improve mental & physical health & wellbeing and work against exclusions & inequalities. As well as facilitating over 590 social groups, and activities annually, MCHLN provides a heavily subsidised door-to-door transport service to aid attendance at healthcare and other appointments benefitting wellbeing, a much-needed shopping service, and a gardening service. Our activities and services are focused on the things that older people tell us matter to them, and which make a difference to their lives.

Charity Status: Not Submitted

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

Constitutional Form Date: 23 Nov 2007

Main Operating Location: Aberdeenshire

Number of Staff: 7

Number of Volunteers: 51-100

Purposes: "the advancement of education", "the advancement of health", "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 carries out activities or services itself"

Annual Submissions:

Year End	Income	Expenditure	Annual Return Received	Accounts Received	Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
31 Dec 2020	£13,442	£129,132	29 Sept 2021	Yes
31 Dec 2021	£198,079	£108,289	29 Sept 2022	Yes
31 Dec 2022	£140,012	£131,903	27 Sept 2023	Yes
31 Dec 2023	£111,093	£174,007	26 Sept 2024	Yes	Published accounts can be found on the Companies House website
31 Dec 2024			No	No
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:

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