01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC038596
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- A specific local point, community or neighbourhood
- Volunteers
- 51-100 volunteers
- Staff
- 3
- Postcode
- PH6 2AB
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
The charity is set up to support the sustainable development of Comrie and the surrounding area by improving local facilities, protecting community assets, and promoting environmental and social wellbeing. This is achieved through community-led projects and working groups, including woodland management, community orchard development, housing initiatives, and other activities that encourage volunteering, community participation, and local resilience. The charity works in partnership with local residents, organisations, and funders to deliver projects that benefit the whole community.
Charitable purposes
- the advancement of citizenship or community development
- the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
- 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
- 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
- No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
Activities
- It carries out activities or services itself
Constitutional objectives
4.1. The Trust's objectives are to enable and assist the Comrie community in a) facing the community-wide challenges presented by economic uncertainty, environmental degradation, and climate change b) easing the personal distress inflicted by impoverishment of health, mobility, wealth, or opportunity, and c) realising the ambition for additional local services and facilities 4.2. The Trust delivers its objectives via: a) community initiatives and services that deliver local public benefit through economically and environmentally sustainable development, regeneration, and diversification. b) In delivery of its objectives, the Trust supports local community-led and targeted actions that: c) promote resilience by facilitating and building local capacity in terms of skills, resources, and infrastructure. d) seek to overcome individual social, emotional, and physical impoverishment or disadvantage due to financial inequity, domestic circumstance, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, ill-health, reduced mobility, or infirmity. e) promote and facilitate healthier lifestyle opportunities, social engagement, and personal development. f) promote citizenship, volunteering, and charitable activities. g) stimulate, develop, support, and advance delivery and participation in economic, environmental, social, built and cultural heritage, artistic, recreational, and sporting activities, services, and projects h) value ecosystem services and efficient resource use that reverses or minimises carbon and other polluting and degrading impacts. 4.3. In pursuit of the Trust's other purposes, it offers: a) to facilitate compatible educational and training initiatives that address shortfalls in knowledge, understanding, skills, and certification, including enabling participation by seeking to provide or organise respite services for care-givers. b) to provide an umbrella corporate framework for compatible charitable and communityinterest groups and projects.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2025 | £405,464 | £331,383 | 3 | 26 March 2026 |
| 31 March 2024 | £333,396 | £336,100 | 3 | 21 January 2025 |
| 31 March 2023 | £358,333 | £349,856 | 3 | 22 December 2023 |
| 31 March 2022 | £530,965 | £582,685 | 3 | 8 March 2023 |
| 31 March 2021 | £836,143 | £594,644 | 3 | 3 October 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
- Hut 3, Cultybraggan Camp, Comrie, Perthshire
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.comriedevelopmenttrust.org.uk
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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