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Shottstown Miners Welfare Charitable Society

Country
Scotland
Charity number
SC021017
Status
Active
Registered
Jan. 31, 1993
Legal form
Unincorporated association

Address

Address
3B Ormiston Terrace
Edinburgh
EH12 7SJ

Activities

'It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations','It carries out activities or services itself'

'the prevention or relief of poverty','the advancement of education','the advancement of health','the advancement of citizenship or community development','the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science','the advancement of public participation in sport','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 charity provides facilities for recreation and leisure time occupation as are conductive to the improvement of the conditions of living of the inhabitants of Shottstown and Penicuik and the neighbourhood including the members of the mining community.

Beneficiaries: 'Other defined groups','No specific group, or for the benefit of the community'

Objectives: The Objects of the Society are to provide facilities for such forms of recreation and other leisure-time occupation as are conducive to the improvement of the conditions of living of the inhabitants of Shottstown and Penicuik and the neighbourhood thereof within the Society's sphere of operations as defined from time to time and in particular (but not exclusively) such of the inhabitants as are members of the Mining Community provided that nothing herein contained shall authorise the application of the Property to purposes which are not in law charitable. The Society shall not be identified with any party or sect.

Geography

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

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure
Jan. 31, 2026 £21,961 £23,506
Jan. 31, 2025 £20,944 £25,388
Jan. 31, 2024 £18,722 £20,449
Jan. 31, 2023 £14,917 £7,992
Jan. 31, 2022 £11,917 £12,551
Jan. 31, 2021 £11,917 £10,870
Jan. 31, 2020 £17,491 £11,322
Jan. 31, 2019 £22,017 £15,193