01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC041228
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- Wider, but within one local authority area
- Volunteers
- 1-50 volunteers
- Staff
- 9
- Postcode
- IV26 2UB
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
The company has been formed to benefit the Lochbroom and Ullapool Community, working to meet challenges identified by the community. As well as fund-raising on behalf of the community, projects initiated to meet these challenges are delivered through LUCT's working groups and include affordable housing, sustainable futures, employment and training and active travel and sustainable transport.
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
Beneficiaries
- No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
Activities
- It carries out activities or services itself
Constitutional objectives
4 The company has been formed to benefit the community of Ullapool Community Trust which comprises the postcode unit(s) as defined in Appendix 1 ('the Community') with the following objects: (1) The advancement of community development, including the advancement of rural regeneration. (2) To provide within the Community recreational facilities, 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 the arts and/or culture. (4) To advance environmental protection and improvement in the Community through the provision, maintenance and/or improvement of public open spaces and other public amenities and other environmental and regeneration projects (but subject to appropriate safeguards to ensure that the public benefits so arising clearly outweigh any private benefit thereby conferred on private landowners). (5) To provide or assist in the provision of housing for people in necessitous· circumstances within the Community. (6) To help young people, particularly those resident in the Community, to develop their physical, mental and spiritual capacities, such that they may grow to full maturity as individuals and as members of society. (7) 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. (8) To advance citizenship and/or community development (including the promotion of civic responsibility and the promotion of the voluntary sector and/or the effectiveness or efficiency of charities and promotion of trade and industry). (9) To promote, establish, operate and/or support other similar schemes and projects of a charitable nature for the benefit of the community within the Community. But such that the company shall do so following principles of sustainable development.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2025 | £156,386 | £146,364 | 9 | 21 December 2025 |
| 31 March 2024 | £157,920 | £159,380 | 9 | 23 December 2024 |
| 31 March 2023 | £130,228 | £135,218 | 9 | 18 January 2024 |
| 31 March 2022 | £103,734 | £128,334 | 9 | 14 December 2022 |
| 31 March 2021 | £164,207 | £112,799 | 9 | 7 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
- 28 Argyle Street, Ullapool, Ross-Shire
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.ullapoolcommunity.org
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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