OSCR Scottish charity profile

Community Enterprise Limited

ActiveCharity number SC006992
Registered3 April 1989
Main locationWest Lothian
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC006992
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
More than one local authority area in Scotland
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
26
Postcode
EH54 8PT

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

We provide support, mentoring, guidance and capacity building to charities, community groups and social enterprises with a view to improving the lives of disadvantaged people and communities.

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes

Beneficiaries

  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

(a) To relieve poverty through: 1. the promotion and encouragement of industrial and commercial activity and enterprise through the formation and development of community enterprises whose activities are directed towards the provision of paid employment or towards relief of need among poor people. A community enterprise means a business (howsoever constituted) determined as such by the Directors of the Company, subject always to such Regulations as may be prescribed by the Company in general meeting. 2. the making of grants or loans to community enterprises whose activities are directed towards the aims referred to in sub-paragraph 1 and the acquisition and holding of shares, stocks, and debentures and other interests in such community enterprises 3. the provision of managerial, supervisory and consultancy services to or in respect of such community enterprises 4. the provision of advice and assistance with regard to the establishment and operation of such community enterprises 5. the provision of training opportunities and 6. the promotion and implementation of schemes of community benefit of a charitable nature. (b) To carry on any other activity which may be advantageously carried on in connection with any of the objects of the company.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£1,002,155£836,9242617 December 2025
31 March 2024£928,273£972,0932619 December 2024
31 March 2023£1,105,119£764,6872621 December 2023
31 March 2022£1,207,888£448,8352631 December 2022
31 March 2021£931,700£331,1492617 December 2021

Figures are those reported by the charity and supplied in the OSCR bulk download. Blank facts remain distinct from zero.

04 Contact record

Principal office or trustees address

Address supplied to OSCR
Room 5, Delta House, Carmondean Centre, Livingston, West Lothian, West Lothian
Website supplied to OSCR
www.communityenterprise.co.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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