# Blantyre Community Trust

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC049974
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
- **Registered:** Feb. 21, 2020
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC049974


## Contact

- **Address:** The Hub, , Birch Place, , Blantyre, , Glasgow
- **Postcode:** G72 9LP



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#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;,&#x27;the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage&#x27;

**What the charity does:** We are set up to advance community development and regeneration within the community of Blantyre. Our main activities are: 1.  Supporting local people to identify and articulate their needs and act to address those needs.  2.  Providing, maintaining and managing facilities which can be used for recreational, heritage and cultural pursuits in order to improve the wellbeing of the community of Blantyre and visitors to the area.   3.  Providing, maintaining and managing facilities which can be used by the community to assist the advancement of community development.

**Objectives:** 2.1 To advance community development and regeneration by:  2.1.1 supporting local people to identify and articulate their needs and act to address those needs.  2.1.2 Providing, maintaining and managing facilities which can be used for recreational, heritage and cultural pursuits in order to improve the wellbeing of the community of Blantyre and visitors to the area.   2.1.3 Providing, maintaining and managing facilities which can be used by the community to assist the advancement of community development.  2.2 To advance education through the provision of training activities, materials and information through a variety of mediums through a range of project, initiatives and activities which stimulate employment, self-employment and skills amongst people resident within the community.   2.3 The prevention or relief of poverty through the provision of skills and advancing the employability prospects of residents of the community in particular those who find it difficult to obtain employment.  2.4 The provision of recreational and leisure activities through the promotion and organisation of community activities and encouraging the use and development for the benefit of the residents of the community and the wider public.





## Areas of operation

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






