InspirAlba Ltd

Country

Scotland

Charity number

SC040666

Status

Active

Registered

July 16, 2009

Legal form

Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)

Address

Contact

Website

inspiralba.org.uk

Activities

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

'the advancement of education','the advancement of citizenship or community development','the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science','the advancement of environmental protection or improvement'

Inspiralba supports employability opportunities for unemployed people and parents on low income. We lead a partnership of third sector organisations to deliver employability support across Argyll and Bute. We also provide business support to other community led enterprises and host the rural social enterprise hub for networking, learning exchange, information and advocacy. Inspiralba takes creative approaches, working in partnership, to enable  positive social and environmental impact, incorporating fairness & equality and the appreciation of  people and place. With a focus on wider well-being, we value integrity and honesty to deliver quality services that support individual, organisational, community opportunities and resilience.

Beneficiaries: 'Children or young people','Older People','People with disabilities or health problems','People with a particular ethnic or racial origin'

Objectives: (1) To advance community development and to promote the effectiveness and/or efficiency of charities and, in particular, through providing services to community-based non-profit distributing organisations, primarily those operating within rural Scotland (“the Operating Area”), with a focus on emerging, developing and established community enterprises. (2) To advance environmental protection or improvement, particularly within the Operating Area through discouraging the unnecessary depletion of natural resources through waste management, recycling and otherwise and through promoting education in the fields of sustainability. (3) To advance education and in particular by: A) researching, developing, facilitating and delivering training for community-based non-profit distributing organisations within the Operating Area. B) the provision of training and skills of all kinds (particularly such skills as will assist the participants in obtaining paid employment), particularly among residents of the Operating Area. C) fostering links with international organisations, exchanging information, and collaborating to advance the awareness of rural social enterprise. (4) To relieve unemployment, particularly among residents of the Operating Area for public benefit in such ways as may be thought fit, including assistance to find employment. (5) To advance heritage and in particular to protect the rural heritage of the Operating Area through promoting education in the fields of rural heritage, local studies and/or rural development and through collating information and carrying out research in those fields and the dissemination of the results of such research, all with a view to increasing understanding of rural regeneration issues. (6) To promote, operate and/or support other similar projects and initiatives which further charitable purposes primarily for the benefit of the community in the Operating Area.

Geography

Main operating location

Argyll And Bute

Geographical spread

Wider, but within one local authority area

Finances

Nearby

• Meadows Under Fives 0.0 mi
• Kintyre Link Club 0.1 mi
• Machrihanish Seabird and Wildlife Observatory 0.1 mi
• Kintyre Amenity Trust SCIO 0.2 mi
• South Kintyre Development Trust 0.2 mi

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