OSCR Scottish charity profile

Friends Of Loch Lomond & The Trossachs

ActiveCharity number SC015389
Registered19 October 1978
Main locationWest Dunbartonshire
Legal formUnincorporated association

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC015389
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
More than one local authority area in Scotland
Volunteers
51-100 volunteers
Staff
1
Postcode
G83 8EG

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The Friends of Loch Lomond and The Trossachs is the only independent conservation and heritage charity working for the benefit of Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park. The key aims are: • Protecting and nurturing the special qualities of the National Park. • Promoting and celebrating the natural and cultural heritage of the National Park. and • Providing support for projects to make the National Park a better place for people and nature. The aims are fulfilled through campaigns, projects, events and commenting on planning applications and relevant policy consultations.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of environmental protection or improvement

Beneficiaries

  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

The objects of the Society are, by charitable means only:- (a) to cherish, protect and enhance the natural beauty, amenity and character of Loch Lomond, its islands and the surrounding countryside. (b) to promote and encourage the preservation, conservation and improvement of features of public amenity or historic interest within the above area. (c )to promote and encourage an energetic and consistent implementation of good planning policies appropriate to the above area and consistent with these objects. (d) to stimulate public interest in these objects by means of publications, meetings, exhibitions, appeals and other forms of publicity. (e) to co-operate with other bodies to promote the foregoing objects.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 December 2025£42,594£52,428129 July 2026
31 December 2024£76,836£69,568130 June 2025
31 December 2023£97,702£103,887111 June 2024
31 December 2022£96,675£115,916121 June 2023
31 December 2021£160,268£119,366129 June 2022

Figures are those reported by the charity and supplied in the OSCR bulk download. Blank facts remain distinct from zero.

04 Contact record

Principal office or trustees address

Address supplied to OSCR
Carrochan, Carrochan Road, Balloch
Website supplied to OSCR
www.lochlomondtrossachs.org.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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