Arniston Improvement Trust

Country

Scotland

Charity number

SC009647

Status

Active

Registered

Aug. 20, 1987

Legal form

Unincorporated association

Address

Activities

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

'the advancement of education','the advancement of citizenship or community development','the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science','the advancement of public participation in sport','the advancement of environmental protection or improvement','any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes'

The Arniston Improvement Trust is a registered charity, which was set up in 1987 to distribute funds in support of local voluntary clubs or community groups in and around the Arniston and Gorebridge areas. The Trust's income is generated by the Hunterfield Gothenburg Tavern Trust which owns the Hunterfield Tavern at 119 Hunterfield Road as well as the small bakery next door. These premises are leased to tenants by the Trust and all profits from these leases are passed on to the Arniston Improvement Trust each year. The focus of the donations includes the education of children, youth and adults, provision of facilities for recreation and other leisure, sporting and cultural activities.

Beneficiaries: 'Children or young people','Older People','No specific group, or for the benefit of the community'

Objectives: The objects of the Trust shall be to apply all investment income, gifts and donations and other income from whatever source including all income covenanted from the Hunterfield Gothenburg Tavern Trust and all tax reclaimed thereon obtained by its Trustees for the benefit of the people of Gorebridge and the surrounding district and without prejudice to the foregoing generality in particular to promote the following objects, namely:- education or training of children, youths and adults, the study, exposition and practice of the arts, painting, sculpture, literature, music and drama, the provision of facilities for recreation and other leisure-time occupation, cultural and recreational activities of all kinds and the care of or provision of recreation for, aged, infirm, incapacitated, handicapped or needy persons. Those objects shall, as far as possible, and primarily be promoted within (but not exclusively within) the area of Gorebridge and the surrounding district. The Trustees shall also promote, assist and encourage, by grants of money or otherwise, any association, club or organisation of a voluntary character operating within the said Gorebridge and the surrounding district and having as its purpose or one of its main purposes the promotion of the above mentioned objects or anyone or more of them. The Trustees shall take care that the funds of the Trust shall be applied in supplement of and not in substitution for any benefit which may be provided or available from public funds.

Geography

Main operating location

Midlothian

Geographical spread

Wider, but within one local authority area

Finances

Nearby

• 1st Midlothian (Gorebridge) Scout Group 0.2 mi
• Cadenza 0.2 mi
• St David's Brass Band SCIO 0.2 mi
• Chestnut Tree Trust 0.3 mi
• Lodge St John Fisherrow No 112 Benevolent Fund 0.3 mi

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