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The Helensburgh Lunch Club

SC053280Registered charity from 16 April 2024
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Charity Information:
Address 14 Glasgow Street
Helensburgh
Postcode G84 8EL
Website No Link Provided
Regulatory Type Standard
Object:
To improve the health and wellbeing of older adults in the Helensburgh and Lomond area by the provision of hot lunches and a meeting place for social activity.
Operations:
What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:
The Helensburgh Lunch Club has been an institution in the Town for over forty years. It is now serving lunches to 30 members on three days each week, Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays. The Club has an active list of 20 volunteers. At least five volunteers are on duty each day, with two cooking and three front of house staff. It is a friendly and welcoming place which serves hot lunches cooked from scratch in a church hall kitchen. It is hugely valued by its 40-50 members. Almost all members are widows or widowers, mostly living on their own, often isolated in the community, and very often unable to cook for themselves. About a quarter of members are over ninety years of age, and two members are registered blind. All members look forward to socialising at the club at lunchtimes. A recent survey by TSI found that the chance for friendship and a sense of being cared for were even more important to members than the chance for a hot lunch.
Charity Status: Active
Constitutional Form: SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
Constitutional Form Date: 16 Apr 2024
Main Operating Location: Argyll And Bute
Number of Staff: 0
Number of Volunteers: 1-50
Purposes: "the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage"
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 Mar 2025 £16,696 £14,073 06 Nov 2025 Yes Download
31 Mar 2026 No Annual Information due by 31 Dec 2026
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Income and Expenditure:
Charity Trustees:
First Name Last Name
Joan Marjory Barrington
David Butler
Stephen Adam
Elaine Grace Frize
Christopher Packard
John Hanks
Penelope Johnston
Theresa Henry
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