# Cumbrae Community Development Company

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC033383
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)
- **Registered:** July 16, 2002
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC033383


## Contact

- **Address:** Garrison House, Millport, Isle of Cumbrae, North Ayrshire
- **Postcode:** KA28 0AZ
- **Website:** https://garrisonhousecumbrae.com/



## Activities

**Activities:** 'It carries out activities or services itself'

**Purposes:** 'the prevention or relief of poverty','the advancement of education','the advancement of health','the advancement of citizenship or community development','the advancement of environmental protection or improvement','the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage'

**What the charity does:** CCDC was incorporated in 2002 following a community campaign to save and restore Garrison House. The building was closed in 1997 and then devastated by fire in 2001, local residents united to secure its future. Garrison House was fully renovated and reopened in 2008. It is now a vibrant community hub hosting the GP surgery, library, Museum of the Cumbraes, café, craft shop and small businesses, community larder, and meeting space.  CCDC also own and manage 7 holiday apartments, through Millport Holiday Apartments Ltd., as well as the Garrison House Motorhome site, which provides serviced pitches, supporting sustainable tourism & CCDC also operates the 5 Public Toilet blocks on Cumbrae. CCDC are the Anchor Organisation for Scottish Government’s Carbon Neutral Islands Programme and work together with organisations from the private, public, and nonprofit sectors.  Helping make a positive impact in our community, working for and with the people of Cumbrae.

**Objectives:** The company's objects are: To relieve poverty among the residents of the Island of Cumbrae ('the Operating Area').  To provide or assist in the provision within the Operating Area of facilities for recreation and other leisure time occupation available to the public at large with a view to improving their conditions of life.  To promote for the public benefit the preservation of (whether wholly or in part) of buildings and other structures of historic and/or architectural significance located within the Operating Area.  To advance education among the residents of the Operating Area, particularly among young people and the unemployed.  To relieve employmen t within the Operating Area for the public benefit in such ways as may be thought fit, including assistance to find employment.  To provide or assist in the provision of housing for people in necessitous circumstances within the Operating Area.  To promote and/or provide training in skills of all kinds, particularly such skills as will assist residents of the Operating Area in obtaining paid employment.  To preserve, restore and improve the environment within the Operating Area through (i) protection and/or preservation of the natural environment and (ii) the provision, maintenance and/or improvement of public open space and other public amenities and other environmental and townscape regeneration projects, and in doing so, to seek wherever appropriate (but subject to appropriate safeguards to ensure that the public benefit so arising clearly outweighs any private benefit thereby conferred on private landowners) to carry out works of reclamation, remediation, restoration and other operations to facilitate the use for those purposes of land whose use has been prevented or restricted because of previous use  To relieve ill health and promote good health, particularly among residents of the Operating Area.  To promote, establish, operate, and/or support other schemes of a ch





## Areas of operation

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



## Finances

| Period end | Income | Expenditure | Assets | Employees | Accounts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 31, 2025 | £59605 | £589161 |  -  | 8 |  |
| March 31, 2024 | £388305 | £472995 |  -  |  -  |  |
| March 31, 2023 | £153323 | £232995 |  -  |  -  |  |
| March 31, 2022 | £102690 | £201203 |  -  |  -  |  |
| March 31, 2021 | £207367 | £221912 |  -  |  -  |  |