# Luss And Arden Community Development Trust Ltd

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC036122
- **Known as:** Luss and Arden Community Development Trust
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)
- **Registered:** Oct. 22, 2004
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC036122


## Contact

- **Address:** South Cottage, Aldochlay, Luss, Argyll & Bute
- **Postcode:** G83 8NU
- **Website:** https://lussandardentrust.weebly.com/



## Activities

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

**Purposes:** '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:** The Trust's main charitable activity is to promote projects and actions which would benefit the Luss and Arden community. Fundraisers are welcomed to be imaginative in raising funds and activities vary from carol singing, race nights in the village hall to overnight stays at the Inverary Jail, which is reputed to be haunted.

**Objectives:** a) To promote benefits for the inhabitants of the parish of Luss and Arden - 'the Operating Area' - without distinction of gender, sexuality, race, political, religious or other opinions by associating the local statutory authorities, voluntary organisations and inhabitants in a common effort to advance education and to provide facilities, or assist in the provision of facilities, in the interest of social welfare for recreation and other leisure time occupation so that their conditions of life may be improved b) To preserve, restore and improve the environment in the Operating Area through the provision, maintenance and for improvement of public open space and other public amenities and other environmental 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 c) To relieve poverty by promoting the need for affordable housing for people in necessitous circumstances living or working in the operating area d) 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 e) To promote, establish and operate other schemes of a charitable nature for the benefit of the community within the Operating Area.





## Areas of operation

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



## Finances

| Period end | Income | Expenditure | Assets | Employees | Accounts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 31, 2025 | £56905 | £4542 |  -  | 0 | [PDF](/sc/SC036122/files/2025-03-31-accounts.pdf) (143.7 KB) |
| March 31, 2024 | £12413 | £9619 |  -  | 0 |  |
| March 31, 2023 | £9154 | £1700 |  -  | 0 |  |
| March 31, 2022 | £50 | £2077 |  -  | 0 |  |
| March 31, 2021 | £3032 | £1391 |  -  | 0 |  |