OSCR Scottish charity profile

UpNorth! Community Development Trust

ActiveCharity number SC040813
Registered7 September 2009
Main locationHighland
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC040813
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
A specific local point, community or neighbourhood
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
IV27 4XF
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OSCR note: 30/1/23 Email from Accountants advising accs should be with us early February

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

to help with community development, advance science ,cultural and heritage practices. To provide recreational facilities to the benefit of the community. To help provide adequate housing in the area. We work with local landowners to lobby for more social housing ( which is proving successful as two housing projects are underway). We liaise with the Care Home North Coast redesign team, Sutherland Spaceport and Highlands and Islands Enterprise and the Scottish Land Fund to help to encourage development and opportunity to our area. We host Community Leaders Forum meetings to allow local groups to swop ideas, concerns and news. We work together to improve the sports ground at our local school. We have secured funding for a development officer who is taking all our plans forward

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
  • any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes

Beneficiaries

  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

5.1 This clause shall be interpreted as if it incorporated an over-riding qualification to the effect that in any case which an activity permitted under this clause is in its nature capable of being carried on for purposes which are not charitable or only partially so as well as for purposes which are wholly charitable, (the word 'charitable' having the meaning ascribed to it in terms of the 2005 Act, including any statutory amendment or re-enactment for the time being in force (which meaning shall be assigned to the word 'charitable' wherever it appears in these articles of association)) the power of the company under this clause in respect of the carrying on of such activity shall be deemed to be limited to the carrying on of such activity in such manner as will not prejudice the charitable status of the company under the statutory provisions referred to above. 5.2 Subject to that over-riding qualification, the Company's Purposes are: 5.2.1 the advancement of citizenship or community development. 5.2.2 the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science. 5.2 .3 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. 5.2.4 the advancement of environmental protection or improvement. 5.2.5 the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage. and 5.2.6 any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded an analogous to any of the preceding objects.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£32,659£17,226023 December 2025
31 March 2024£7,142£8,489023 October 2024
31 March 2023£672£1,256023 September 2024
31 March 2022£4,328£1,959021 August 2024
31 March 2021£2,669£5,889027 January 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
225 The Village, Tongue, Lairg, Sutherland
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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