Cumbrae Community Development CompanyRegistered

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