Issue - meetings

The Committee gave consideration to a report of the Strategic Director of Communities and Reform which provided them with an update on the application to the Charity Commission to broaden the objectives of the charity to Nature-based educational activities.

The Committee noted the history of the site and were informed that, further to their resolution on 11^th March 2020, an application was made to the

Charity Commission to broaden the objects of the charity with some proposed new objects for its consideration. The Charity Commission had declined the proposed new objects and had suggested its own new objects as set out in the draft Cy-pres scheme.

The objects proposed were: “To promote for the benefit of the inhabitants of the borough of Oldham and the surrounding area the provision of facilities for recreation or other leisure time occupation of individuals who have need of such facilities by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, financial hardship or social and economic circumstances or for the public at large in the interests of social welfare and with the object of improving the condition of life of the said inhabitants.”

The Committee was informed that the recreation ground was in the centre of the land covered by the Northern Roots Project and the release of the limited objects for the use of the land and the widening of the objects proposed by the Charity Commission would enable the Northern Roots Project to make better use of the site in alignment with the overall development of the area.

RESOLVED that:-

1.    The report be noted

2.    The draft Cy-Pres Scheme be approved.