Charity Details

Greener Leith, SC040838

Registered charity from 14 September 2009 Ceased date: 14 January 2019

Charity Details

Shown where the charity has supplied us with a link to its website.WebsiteNo Link Provided

Charities are shown as Standard charities, Registered Social Landlords, or Cross-Border charities. These last two will link through to other Regulators’ websites, where you may be able to view the charity’s accounts.Regulatory Type Standard

This is the link to the lead regulatory body for this organisation.Link to Companies Househttps://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/

Reason For RemovalThis charity has been wound up/dissolved.

These are taken directly from the charity's constitution. A charity's objects describe what the charity has been legally set up to achieve. They do not necessarily describe all of the activities the charity carries out in order to achieve these objects. Object:

The company's objects are: (1) To advance environmental protection and/or improvement, and in particular through (i) the provision, maintenance and/or improvement of public open space and other public amenities within Leith and environs ("the Operating Area") (but subject to appropriate safeguards to ensure that the public benefits so arising clearly outweigh any private benefit thereby conferred on private landowners); and (ii) encouraging the adoption of practices that reduce global warming and other adverse effects on the natural environment (which may include projects directed toward encouraging the use of more environmentally sustainable forms of transport and/or reducing unnecessary journeys through encouraging greater use of local retail outlets within the Operating Area); (2) To promote civic responsibility, volunteering, and the voluntary sector, and in particular through encouraging residents of the Operating Area, and community groups operating in the Operating Area, to participate in environmental projects within the Operating Area; (3) To advance health, and in particular through measures directed towards improving air quality within the Operating Area and through promoting the use of bicycles and walking as more active travel modes; (4) To advance education, and in particular through increasing knowledge and understanding among residents of the Operating Area of issues relevant to the environment, including the impact of choices that they make as regards transport modes; (5) To promote, operate, establish and/or support other similar projects and programmes which further charitable purposes.

Details of the charity's operations

Current status of the charity.Charity Status: Removed

When the charity last submitted a change in information.Last Updated: 14 Jan 2019

Whether the charity is a Trust, Company, Unincorporated Association, SCIO, Educational Endowment, Industrial & Provident Society or Statutory Corporation, the date it became that form, and any previous forms it may have had.Constitutional Form: Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)

This best describes how local or widespread the work of the charity is.Geographical Spread: Wider, but within one local authority area

This local authority area in which the charity is currently operating.Main Operating Location: City of Edinburgh

The Charity and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act sets out 15 charitable purposes and one analogous purpose.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","The advancement of environmental protection or improvement"

This lists which beneficiary groups the charity has identified as being the main focus of activities: children / young people, older people, people with disabilities or health problems, people of a particular ethnic or racial origin, other defined groups, no specific group or for the benefit of the community, other charities / voluntary bodies.Beneficiaries: "No specific group, or for the benefit of the community"

This sets out the types of activity undertaken by the charity from the following: 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, it does none of these.Types of activty undertaken: "It carries out activities or services itself"

Annual Information Submission History

The end of the financial year for which accounts and information has been requested. Year End	The gross income for the period. Income	Expenditure	Annual Return Received	The date the return was validated by OSCR. Accounts Received	The accounts available to view have had personal data such as signatures and addresses redacted (blacked out) to comply with the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998. The charity’s accounts are the responsibility of the charity trustees and any queries regarding the content of the accounts should be directed to the charity in the first instance. OSCR accepts no liability for the accuracy of the charity’s accounts nor any decision based upon them. Latest Accounts
31 May 2014	£19,831	£26,820	21 Oct 2014	Yes
31 May 2015	£36,983	£72,209	29 Feb 2016	Yes
31 May 2016	£4,090	£8,235	21 Feb 2017	Yes
30 Nov 2017	£989	£1,749	24 May 2018	Yes	Published accounts can be found on the Companies House website
30 Nov 2018			No	Annual Information due by 30 Aug 2019
*Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, OSCR allowed an additional 9 months grace period for charities that were overdue/late when their annual information due by date fell between 01 March 2020 and 31 March 2021. 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 .

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