It has become part of another theatre

A historic theatre company has been deregistered by Scotland's charity regulator after it failed to file accounts.

Prestwick-based Borderline Theatre Company will cease to be a charity in June after the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator took action.

It describes itself as a multi-award-winning Scottish touring theatre company founded in 1974 and Scotland’s longest running touring theatre company, with a 49 year track record for presenting accessible and entertaining live theatre to audiences, totaling over one million people.

“We tour our distinctive brand of ‘entertainment with substance’ to venues and communities across Scotland and beyond. We celebrate innovative new writing and reimagined revivals of plays that wider-Scotland hasn’t seen,” its website states.

Borderline’s chair since 2006, Jeremy Wyatt, told Civil Society Media that the organisation had effectively stopped functioning some time ago.

The theatre company lost its core financial support and had relied on individual project funding and had increasingly been absorbed into the work of Ayr’s Gaiety Theatre.

“A couple of people from the board, including myself, set up the Ayr Gaiety Partnership and took over the Gaiety Theatre,” Wyatt said.

“The legacy of Borderline has got wrapped up into the Gaiety Theatre, which is still very much alive and going – and really building on that legacy,” he added.

OSCR entry for the charity states: "OSCR has given notice of its intention to remove this charity from the Scottish Charity Register under section 45A of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005."