Charity Details

The Astley Ainslie Community Trust

SC051602Registered charity from 21 February 2022

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Charity Information:

Address 7, Oswald Court
Edinburgh

Postcode EH9 2HY

Website https://www.aact.scot

Regulatory Type Standard

Object:

4 AACT's purposes are to benefit the community surrounding the Ainslie Ainslie Hospital in south Edinburgh, with a particular focus on the Edinburgh South postcode sectors EH9-1; EH9-2; EH9-3; EH10-4; EH10-5; and EH10-6 ("the Community"), and the wider community, with the following objects: 4.1 To promote the advancement of community development (including the advancement of regeneration) within the Community; 4.2 To advance the provision of health, rehabilitation, and well-being in the Community; 4.3 To advance the provision of educational opportunities in the Community relating to the environment, culture, heritage and history; and 4.4 To advance environmental protection or improvement.

Operations:

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

AACT is set up to benefit the community around the Astley Ainslie Hospital site in Edinburgh. Areas in which we aspire to contribute are: community development: health, rehabilitation and well-being: environmental protection or improvement; heritage, culture and history. We run events within the community involving volunteers, consult with NHS Lothian, the City of Edinburgh Council Planning Department, the Scottish Government, with relevant local and national politicians, with potential partner organisations and other supporters. We run funded projects with these ends in mind. Our most recent project, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, was to interview past patients and staff at the Hospital, together with community users of the site, to create a local public exhibition with photographs and sound recordings, to illustrate the history of the site. Content of the exhibition has been archived to provide an accessible public resource in future.

Charity Status: Active

Constitutional Form: SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

Constitutional Form Date: 21 Feb 2022

Main Operating Location: City of Edinburgh

Number of Staff: 0

Number of Volunteers: 1-50

Purposes: "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 advancement of environmental protection or improvement"

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 Mar 2023	£38,619	£6,429	27 Dec 2023	Yes
31 Mar 2024	£8,080	£13,262	12 Dec 2024	Yes
31 Mar 2025	£19,477	£12,900	15 Dec 2025	Yes	Visit Charity's 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:

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