01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC034260
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- Wider, but within one local authority area
- Volunteers
- 0 volunteers
- Staff
- 2
- Postcode
- IV3 5BL
OSCR note: This SCIO was incorporated on 7 February 2013 as a result of a Change to SCIO application by Highland Senior Citizens Network SC034260, which was an unincorporated association registered as a charity since 16 December 2002.
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
The organisation’s purposes are to encapsulate the mission “nothing about us without us” for older people services. To advance education, relieve poverty and promote the social recreational and welfare good of older people resident in the Highland area. To combat social isolation, marginalisation and powerlessness experienced by older people living in the Highland area through collective advocacy, including. Developing and monitoring the quality and effectiveness of services for older people across the Highland area. Stimulating and helping to facilitate innovative work in service development at local and national levels. Promoting social inclusion, equality and diversity and active participation in older people services in the Highland area. By assisting the work of statutory, public and voluntary organisations in relation to provision of such facilities. By doing anything which promotes the purposes provided that such will not relieve any such
Charitable purposes
- the prevention or relief of poverty
- the advancement of education
- the advancement of citizenship or community development
- the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended
Beneficiaries
- Older People
Activities
- It does none of these
Constitutional objectives
The organisation’s purposes are to encapsulate the mission “nothing about us without us” for older people services: 4.1 To advance education, relieve poverty and promote the social recreational and welfare good of older people resident in the Highland area, 4.2 To combat social isolation, marginalisation and powerlessness experienced by older people living in the Highland area through collective advocacy, including: 4.2.1 Developing and monitoring the quality and effectiveness of services for older people across the Highland area, 4.2.2 Stimulating and helping to facilitate innovative work in service development at local and national levels, and 4.2.3 Promoting social inclusion, equality and diversity and active participation in older people services in the Highland area. 4.3 By assisting the work of statutory, public and voluntary organisations in relation to provision of such facilities, and 4.4 By doing anything which promotes the purposes provided that such will not relieve any such organisation of its statutory responsibility.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2025 | £54,280 | £49,615 | 2 | 19 October 2025 |
| 31 March 2024 | £55,425 | £58,913 | 2 | 7 September 2024 |
| 31 March 2023 | £53,825 | £60,244 | 2 | 3 October 2023 |
| 31 March 2022 | £55,161 | £48,314 | 2 | 12 July 2022 |
| 31 March 2021 | £54,532 | £63,514 | 2 | 31 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
- Shamrock Mac, 3 Young Street, Inverness
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.hscn.co.uk
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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