OSCR Scottish charity profile

SBC Community Enhancement Trust

ActiveCharity number SC044764
Registered25 March 2014
Main locationScottish Borders
Legal formTrust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC044764
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Wider, but within one local authority area
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
TD6 0SA

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The Trust is administered by the Communities & Partnership Team and features in each of the 5 Area Partnership Funding information tables to raise awareness of the fund, and to support openness, transparency and equality regarding funding that is available to communities.

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

  • Children or young people
  • Older People
  • People with disabilities or health problems
  • Other defined groups

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations

Constitutional objectives

(a) The advancement of community development. (b) The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science, including the upkeep of heritage assets. (c) 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. or (d) The advancement of environmental protection or improvement. By, among other things, the payment of grants and / or loans, to such charities or other organisations or to such individuals operating or living within the Scottish Borders area or with links to the Scottish Borders area, who are deserving of benefit as the Trustees shall, in their sole and unfettered discretion, select as suitable recipients of such benefit, to be applied by such recipients for the charitable purposes of either community development, or advancing the arts, heritage, culture or science, or the provision of recreational facilities or activities, as appropriate. 2.The expenses of creating and administering the Trust, and any tax payable in relation to the Trust, shall be met in priority to all other payments and transfers of assets out of the Trust Property.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£10,150£6,350020 November 2025
31 March 2024£23,405£8,244019 December 2024
31 March 2023£11,099£5,805018 December 2023
31 March 2022£9,721£4,605030 November 2022
31 March 2021£8,139£1,079026 November 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
Scottish Borders Council, Council Headquarters, Newtown St Boswells, Melrose
Website supplied to OSCR
www.scotborders.gov.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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