OSCR Scottish charity profile

Beannachar Ltd

Known as Beannachar Camphill Community

ActiveCharity number SC016384
Registered2 April 1987
Main locationAberdeenshire
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC016384
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Scotland and other parts of the UK
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
54
Postcode
AB12 5YL

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Our aim is to create a therapeutic integrated environment, within which people can find the support and guidance they need to develop their potential in maturing from adolescence to adulthood. By balancing the elements of work, home life, personal development, social and cultural interaction within Beannachar and in the local surroundings, we attempt to live a meaningful, wholesome and fulfilling life together. The principal activity of the charity is to provide supported accommodation and/or educational and work opportunities to adults with a learning disability or other additional support need.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • the advancement of environmental protection or improvement
  • the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Beneficiaries

  • People with disabilities or health problems

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

2 Objects 2.1 The company will promote, advance and further its Charitable Purposes by providing supported accommodation and/or educational and work opportunities to adults with a disability or other disadvantage with an emphasis on engagement in the natural environment and sustainable development all through and as part of the international Camphill Movement which promotes the development of communities where people with disability or other disadvantage and those that support them, can live, learn, and work with others in healthy social relationships, based on mutual care and respect, taking a holistic approach to physical, social, mental and spiritual wellbeing. 2.2 Nothing in these Articles shall authorise an application of the property of the company for purposes which are not charitable in accordance with any statutory provision regarding the meaning of the word 'charitable' or the words 'charitable purposes' in force in any part of the United Kingdom. 2.3 For the purposes of the Charities Act the following Charitable Purposes are relevant and for the purposes of the Charities Act are the Charitable Purposes identified as applicable from section 7 of the Charities Act: 2.3.1 the advancement of education. 2.3.2 the advancement of citizenship or community development. 2.3.3 the advancement of environmental protection or improvement. and 2.2.4 the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability or other disadvantage. 2.4 For the purposes of the Taxes Acts the provisions set out in articles 2.1 to 2.3 inclusive shall be read together to ensure the Charitable Purposes of the Company are compliant with the Taxes Act.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£2,394,676£2,634,448547 April 2026
31 March 2024£2,402,143£2,293,2615427 December 2024
31 March 2023£2,217,322£2,441,1015419 December 2023
31 March 2022£1,907,465£1,748,665545 December 2022
31 March 2021£1,623,345£1,546,8375414 December 2021

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
Beannachar Ltd, South Deeside Road, Banchory - Devenick, Aberdeen
Website supplied to OSCR
www.beannachar.co.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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