OSCR Scottish charity profile

Glenkens Community And Arts Trust Limited

ActiveCharity number SC032050
Registered10 October 2001
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
SC032050
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Wider, but within one local authority area
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
26
Postcode
DG7 3RN

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The Glenkens Community & Arts Trust has a track record of economic regeneration through arts and community work in the Glenkens. We were created in response to the devastating Foot and Mouth epidemic and since then have consistently delivered high-quality arts and community development work for our remote-rural community. We are a key anchor organisation for the area, with a vision of making the Glenkens an excellent place to live for people of all ages. We do this by: Interweaving Arts, Community and Heritage to enrich the life of the area. Delivering our Artistic Vision with passion and creativity. Supporting many activities core to the quality of life of people and environment of the Glenkens. Driving economic and social regeneration of the area through championing the delivery of the Glenkens & District Community Action Plan.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
  • the advancement of environmental protection or improvement

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people
  • Older People
  • People with disabilities or health problems
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

(1) To advance the education of the public by the provision or premises and facilities wherein there can he collected, preserved, exhihited and intepreted historic and artistic materials and associated information about the same and in particular material that relates to the general area of Glenkens or its inhahitants or is connected therewith. (2) To promote, maintain, improve and advance education particularly by promoting and encouraging the study, practice, knowledge and appreciation of the arts and for these purposes to organise, promote, manage and conduct exhihitions, concerts, conferences, dramas, lectures and workshops in Glenkens or elsewhere. (3) To promote the benefit of the inhabitants and in particular the young, elderly and disabled, of Glenkens and its environs without distinction of sex, sexuality, political, religious or other opinions by associating the local statutory authorities, voluntary organisation and inhabitants in a common effort to advance education and to provide facilities, or assist in the provision of facilities, in the interest of social welfare for recreation and other leisure-time occupation so that their condition of life may be improved. (4) To advance the education of those who are rurally isolated by utilising Information Technology to provide distance learning and also to lacilitate visiting lectures.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 August 2025£857,104£695,2732613 May 2026
31 August 2024£579,202£612,3492619 May 2025
31 August 2023£982,959£854,7292612 February 2024
31 August 2022£595,767£727,2722621 April 2023
31 August 2021£655,727£515,2462630 May 2022

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
CatStrand, High Street, New Galloway, Castle Douglas
Website supplied to OSCR
www.gcat.scot
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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