Bathgate Community Development Trust
All about the Trust
Bathgate Community Development Trust Ltd is a community organisation created to enable sustainable development in their area. We will undertake a mixture of economic, environmental and social initiatives. Registered with Companies House Edinburgh with company number 644723. A Member led organisation run and owned by members.
Bathgate Community Development Trust will be part of the community enterprise movement. We are community based and we aim to achieve our goals by generating revenue through undertaking projects, trading, providing services and acquiring assets (such as buildings and equipment). These profits will be used to create community wealth that has a lasting impact on the renewal and improvement of Bathgate.
For the Community By the community
As independent not-for-profit organisations, Bathgate Community Development Trust Ltd will be committed to involving local people and being held accountable to local people. We shall work with and alongside the local voluntary sector, public authorities, and private sector.
Working to Develop Bathgate
Bathgate Community Development Trust will be part of the community enterprise movement. We are community based and we aim to achieve our goals by generating revenue through undertaking projects, trading, providing services and acquiring assets (such as buildings and equipment). These profits will be used to create community wealth that has a lasting impact on the renewal and improvement of Bathgate.
Our Four Principles
We will be --
• Engaged in the economic, environmental and social regeneration of Bathgate.
• Independent, aiming for self-sufficiency and not for profit.
• Community based, owned and managed.
• Actively involved in partnerships and alliances between the community, voluntary, private and public sectors.
Membership
Membership is open to everyone from Bathgate and people who have an interest in Bathgate and its wellbeing
Our Team
Our History
Our History
The Team is the people of Bathgate and anyone can be a member. Please join up for £2 a year and become part of our small but amazing team of volunteers committed to helping Bathgate and people interested in Bathgate . Bathgate is a small town with a big history and we want to add to that story
Our History
Our History
Our History
Seeing a need for imaginative energetic, nonprofit development trust in Bathgate, we formed the organization to provide an oppertunity for people from Bathgate to change the town for the better. We've only just started in early 2020 and then Covid hit and stopped our activities but we want to plan for the future and need more helping hands from this amazing community!
Our Vision
Our History
Our Vision
Bathgate Community Development Trust will be about active citizens coming together to address local issues creatively using self-help, trading for social purpose and ownership of buildings and land to bring about long-term social, economic and environmental benefits in our community.