Lanark Community Development Trust

Constitutional objectives

The company has been formed to benefit principally the community of Lanark which comprises the 'Settlement of Lanark (Sl9001652)' plus the following postcodes: ML11 7TF, ML11 7RL, ML11 7RZ, ML117RQ, ML117RR, Ml11 9EH, ML11-9DA, ML11 9ZR, ML11 9FZ, ML11 SSF, ML11 SSQ, ML119TA, ML117SA, ML11 9S2, ML119TB, M.L11 SSG ('the Community') with the following objects: (1) The advancement of community development (including the advancement of rural regeneration) principally within the Community. (2) To provide within the Community recreational facilities and/or organise recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended. (3 To advance education and in particular to promote opportunities for learning for the benefit of the general public. (4) To advance citizenship and community development. (5) To advance the arts and/or culture. (6) To advance environmental protection and improvement in the Community through the provision, maintenance and/or improvement of public open space and other public amenities and other environmental and regeneration projects (but subject to safeguards to ensure that the public benefits so arising clearly outweigh and private benefit, thereby conferred on private landowners). (7) To help young people, particularly those resident in the Community, to, develop their physical, mental and spiritual capacities, such as that they may grow to full maturity as individuals and members of society. (8) To advance heritage and/or preserve, for the benefit of the general public, the historical, architectural and constructional heritage that may exist in and around the Community in buildings (including any structure or erection, and any part of a building as so defined) of particular beauty or historical, architectural or constructional interest. (9) To promote, establish, operate and/or support other similar schemes and projects .of a charitable nature for the benefit of the residents of the Community. But only to the extent that the above purposes are consistent with furthering the achievement of sustainable. development