01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC030513
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- A specific local point, community or neighbourhood
- Volunteers
- 0 volunteers
- Staff
- 0
- Postcode
- EH22 5TA
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
The principal objectives of the company as set out in our Memorandum and Articles of Association are to prevent and relieve poverty by providing business premises to create employment opportunities for community members, businesses, the self-employed and third sector organisations, advance education by providing premises for training activities including vocational training and educational programmes, advance community development through regeneration of the community by the maintenance of physical infrastructure, advance rural and urban regeneration of the community by developing and managing community land and built environment assets.
Charitable purposes
- the prevention or relief of poverty
- the advancement of education
Beneficiaries
- No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
Activities
- It carries out activities or services itself
Constitutional objectives
(1) To relieve poverty among the residents of Mayfield and Easthouses, Edinburgh ('the Operating Area') (2) To advance education among the residents of the Operating Area, particularly among young people and the unemployed (3) To promote and/or provide training in skills of all kinds,particlliarly such skills as will assist residents of the Operating Area in obtaining paid employment (4) To promote, establish and operate other schemes of a charitable nature for the benefit of the community within the Operating Area (5) To promote trade and industty for the benefit of the general public
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2025 | £283,145 | £225,513 | 0 | 13 November 2025 |
| 31 March 2024 | £277,390 | £236,639 | 0 | 22 November 2024 |
| 31 March 2023 | £270,755 | £220,428 | 0 | 15 December 2023 |
| 31 March 2022 | £194,958 | £133,454 | 0 | 20 December 2022 |
| 31 March 2021 | £201,378 | £137,628 | 0 | 9 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
- McSence Business Enterprise Park, 32 Sycamore Road, Mayfield, Dalkeith
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.mcsence.co.uk
- Parent charity
- McSence · SC016874
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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