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Helmsdale & District Development Trust

SC043078Registered charity from 12 April 2012
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Charity Information Operations Annual Submissions Income and Expenditure Charity Trustees
Charity Information:
Address Millenium Cottage
Strath Road
Helmsdale
Sutherland
Postcode KW8 6JL
Is the supplied address a principal office or a trustee address? Trustee - Charity Trustee
Website www.helmsdale.scot
Regulatory Type Standard
Link to Companies House https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/
Object:
4.1 To provide within Helmsdale and District recreational facilities, or organise recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended. 4.2 To advance education and in particular promote opportunities for learning for the benefit of the general public. 4.3 To advance the arts and / or culture. 4.4 To advance environmental protection and improvement in Helmsdale and District through the provision, maintenance and / or improvement of public open space and other public amenities and other environmental and regeneration projects. (subject to appropriate safeguards to ensure that the public benefits so arising clearly outweigh any private benefit thereby conferred by private landowners). 4.5 To provide or assist in the provision of housing for people in necessitous circumstances within Helmsdale and District. 4.6 To prevent or relieve poverty particularly among the residents of Helmsdale and District. 4.7 To relieve those in need of employment, particularly among the residents of Helmsdale and District, for the Public benefit in such ways as may be thought fit, including assistance to find employment. 4.8 To relieve those in need by promoting training, particularly among residents of Helmsdale and District, and with particular reference to skills which will assist the participants in obtaining paid employment. 4.9 To advance community development through the promotion of trade and industry within Helmsdale and District for the benefit of the general public. 4.10 To help young people, particularly those resident in the Helmsdale and District, to develop their physical, mental and spiritual capacities, such that they may grow to full maturity as individuals and as members of society. 4.11 To advance heritage and / or preserve, for the benefit of the general public, (maximum text reached, further full information can be obtained directly from the Charity)
Operations:
What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:
To help provide facilities within the Helmsdale and district area and improve the conditions of life for the persons of the area.
Charity Status: Active
Constitutional Form: Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)
Constitutional Form Date: 12 Apr 2012
Main Operating Location: Highland
Number of Staff: 2
Number of Volunteers: 1-50
Purposes: "the prevention or relief of poverty", "the advancement of education", "the advancement of health", "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", "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
31 Dec 2021 £206,556 £96,237 18 Sept 2022 Yes
31 Dec 2022 £353,252 £66,550 18 Jun 2023 Yes
31 Dec 2023 £337,506 £66,021 05 Aug 2024 Yes
31 Dec 2024 £130,991 £68,921 09 Sept 2025 Yes Published accounts can be found on the Companies House website
31 Dec 2025 No Annual Information due by 30 Sept 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
Jean Sargent
Ruth Whittaker
Karen Sutherland
April Sutherland
Grace Maxwell
Barbara Jappy
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