# Newtongrange Childrens Gala Day Committee

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC016761
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Unincorporated association
- **Registered:** April 21, 1977
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC016761


## Contact

- **Address:** 2 Second Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian
- **Postcode:** EH22 4QF
- **Website:** www.newtongrangegala.org



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations&#x27;,&#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the advancement of citizenship or community development&#x27;

**What the charity does:** The charity is set up to provide an annual children&#x27;s gala day for the community of Newtongrange and surrounding areas. The committee put on a number of events through the year to help fundraise towards the costs of the gala day. The gala court are involved in several events through the year along with the wider community. The gala day itself includes a number of community volunteers and a full week of entertainment leading to the big day.

**Beneficiaries:** &#x27;Children or young people&#x27;,&#x27;Older People&#x27;,&#x27;People with disabilities or health problems&#x27;,&#x27;No specific group, or for the benefit of the community&#x27;,&#x27;Other charities or voluntary bodies&#x27;

**Objectives:** 1.To organise activities of a recreational nature for children at various times throughout the year, particularly during one week in the summer, culminating in a @gala day@, on which the principal events shall be the crowning of a King and Queen, with the associated ceremonial. and the provision of a picnic meal for the children resident in Newtongrange up to the age of twelve years. The King and Queen and members of the court shall be drawn from children resident in and attending Newtongrange and St Andrew’s Primary School, Newtonloan, and shall be selected by the School Authorities. Neither the Committee as a whole, nor any individual member thereof, shall have any part in this selection. 2.To seek and encourage the co-operation of the local community, and organisations, in carrying out the programme outlined above. 3.To raise Funds for financing these activities by appeals for donations from local organisations, and members of the public, by organising small lotteries, by voluntary collections, and such other means as maybe deemed by the Committee to be appropriate. All such Funds so raised shall be devoted entirely to the carrying out of the Objects set out in Paragraphs 1 and 2 above.





## Geography

- **Main operating location:** Midlothian
- **Geographical spread:** A specific local point, community or neighbourhood







