# Highland Senior Citizens Network

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC034260
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
- **Registered:** Dec. 16, 2002
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC034260


## Contact

- **Address:** Shamrock Mac, 3 Young Street, Inverness
- **Postcode:** IV3 5BL
- **Website:** www.hscn.co.uk



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It does none of these&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the prevention or relief of poverty&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of education&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of citizenship or community development&#x27;,&#x27;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&#x27;

**What the charity does:** The organisation’s purposes are to encapsulate the mission “nothing about us without us” for older people services. To advance education, relieve poverty and promote the social recreational and welfare good of older people resident in the Highland area.  To combat social isolation, marginalisation and powerlessness experienced by older people living in the Highland area through collective advocacy, including.  Developing and monitoring the quality and effectiveness of services for older people across the Highland area. Stimulating and helping to facilitate innovative work in service development at local and national levels. Promoting social inclusion, equality and diversity and active participation in older people services in the Highland area. By assisting the work of statutory, public and voluntary organisations in relation to provision of such facilities. By doing anything which promotes the purposes provided that such will not relieve any such

**Objectives:** The organisation’s purposes are to encapsulate the mission “nothing about us without us” for older people services: 4.1 To advance education, relieve poverty and promote the social recreational and welfare good of older people resident in the Highland area, 4.2 To combat social isolation, marginalisation and powerlessness experienced by older people living in the Highland area through collective advocacy, including: 4.2.1 Developing and monitoring the quality and effectiveness of services for older people across the Highland area, 4.2.2 Stimulating and helping to facilitate innovative work in service development at local and national levels, and 4.2.3 Promoting social inclusion, equality and diversity and active participation in older people services in the Highland area. 4.3 By assisting the work of statutory, public and voluntary organisations in relation to provision of such facilities, and 4.4 By doing anything which promotes the purposes provided that such will not relieve any such organisation of its statutory responsibility.





## Areas of operation

- **Main operating location:** Highland
- **Geographical spread:** Wider, but within one local authority area






