OSCR Scottish charity profile

Luss And Arden Community Development Trust Ltd

Known as Luss and Arden Community Development Trust

ActiveCharity number SC036122
Registered22 October 2004
Main locationArgyll And Bute
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC036122
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
A specific local point, community or neighbourhood
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
G83 8NU

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The Trust's main charitable activity is to promote projects and actions which would benefit the Luss and Arden community. Fundraisers are welcomed to be imaginative in raising funds and activities vary from carol singing, race nights in the village hall to overnight stays at the Inverary Jail, which is reputed to be haunted.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • the advancement of environmental protection or improvement
  • the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Beneficiaries

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

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

a) To promote benefits for the inhabitants of the parish of Luss and Arden - 'the Operating Area' - without distinction of gender, sexuality, race, political, religious or other opinions by associating the local statutory authorities, voluntary organisations 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 conditions of life may be improved b) To preserve, restore and improve the environment in the Operating Area through the provision, maintenance and for improvement of public open space and other public amenities and other environmental townscape regeneration projects, and in doing so, to seek wherever appropriate (but subject to appropriate safeguards to ensure that the public benefit so arising clearly outweighs any private benefit thereby conferred on private landowners) to carry out works of reclamation, remediation, restoration and other operations to facilitate the use for those purposes of land whose use has been prevented or restricted because of previous use c) To relieve poverty by promoting the need for affordable housing for people in necessitous circumstances living or working in the operating area d) To promote and/or provide training in skills of all kinds, particularly such skills as will assist residents of the operating Area in obtaining paid employment e) To promote, establish and operate other schemes of a charitable nature for the benefit of the community within the Operating Area.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£56,905£4,542018 March 2026
31 March 2024£12,413£9,619019 December 2024
31 March 2023£9,154£1,700021 December 2023
31 March 2022£50£2,077025 January 2023
31 March 2021£3,032£1,391022 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
South Cottage, Aldochlay, Luss, Argyll & Bute
Website supplied to OSCR
https://lussandardentrust.weebly.com/
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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