OSCR Scottish charity profile

Machars Action Ltd

Not SubmittedCharity number SC029710
Registered7 March 1995
Main locationDumfries And Galloway
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC029710
Status
Not Submitted
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Wider, but within one local authority area
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
3
Postcode
DG8 9EH

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

To provide community development support and information services to the population of the Machars. We provide a tourist information service for visitors, advertise local events, provide an affordable admin service re photocopying, printing, laminating, book binding etc. We publish a quarterly free, local newspaper for the Machars area. We provide affordable independent examination of accounts for local organisations. We publish events on our website. We administer wildfowling permits for shooters coming to Wigtown Bay Nature Reserve. We hire out office equipment as well as hire of a meetings room. We facilitate a Citizens Advice outreach service and help local people fill out forms, job applications and CV's. We publish a weekly 'Situations Vacant'. We act as an outlet for local crafters to showcase their work.

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

  • Older People
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
  • Other charities or voluntary bodies

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

This clause shall be interpreted as if it incorporated an over-riding qualification limiting the powers of the company such that any activity which would otherwise be permitted by the terms of the clause may be carried on only if that activity furthers a purpose which is regarded as charitable for the purposes of both section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and also of section 505 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (including any statutory amendment or re-enactment for the time being in force). Subject to that over-riding qualification, the company's objects are: - To relieve the poverty among the residents of that part of Durnfries & Galloway defined by the boundaries of Mid Galloway's Area Committee ('the Operating Area'). To advance education among the residents of the Operating Area. To promote training in skills of all kinds, particularly such skills as will assist residents of the Operating Area in obtaining paid employment. To provide, in the interests of social welfare, facilities for recreation and other leisure time occupation available to the public at large within the Operating Area with a view to improving their conditions of life. To promote for the public benefit the preservation (whether wholly or in part) of buildings and other structures of historic andlor architectural significance within the Operating Area. To protect (in liaison with the local authority and other agencies) the natural environment within the Operating Area fi-om further damage caused by the creation of further landfill sites or the expansion of existing landfill sites. I (as amended by special resolution passed on 6 December 1999) To create andlor improve, for the benefit of the general public, public parks, public woodlands, public streets, pavement and walkways (and adjoining landscaped areas) and other public open spaces and recreational areas within the Operating Area. To promote, establish, operate, andlor

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£0£03Not supplied
31 March 2024£101,071£120,374331 March 2025
31 March 2023£131,482£118,344316 January 2024
31 March 2022£124,215£105,952331 October 2022
31 March 2021£91,754£110,780324 November 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
26 South Main Street, Wigtown, Newton Stewart, Dumfries and Galloway
Website supplied to OSCR
www.macharsaction.co.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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