01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC020751
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- Wider, but within one local authority area
- Volunteers
- 51-100 volunteers
- Staff
- 10
- Postcode
- DG8 6ND
OSCR note: Previous Name - Galloway Fisheries Trust from 23/11/1992 to 06/08/2026
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
The aim of Galloway Fisheries Trust is to restore and maintain aquatic biodiversity, particularly native fish, in Galloway by means of practical, responsible and sustainable approaches to land, water and fishery management, based on sound science, for the benefit of the community as a whole. The aims of our remit are met by undertaking practical works, education initiatives, focused research projects and delivering key services to member waters and the wider community. Evidence based management underpins this work program. The threats to freshwater ecosystems from climate change is well known and an important priority work stream for GFT is to increase the climate resilience of river systems to climate change impacts such as increased summer temperatures, regular droughts and more extreme floods.
Charitable purposes
- the advancement of environmental protection or improvement
Beneficiaries
- Children or young people
- No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
Activities
- It carries out activities or services itself
Constitutional objectives
2. The charitable purposes of the Company are the advancement of environmental protection or improvement: 2.1 By restoring and maintaining aquatic biodiversity, particularly native fish, in the Dumfries and Galloway and neighbouring regions by means of practical, responsible and sustainable approaches to land, water and fishery management, based on sound science, for the benefit of the community as a whole. 2.2 By providing advice, undertaking research and completing practical works to protect and enhance the natural ecology of the freshwater and estuarine habitats of the Dumfries and Galloway and neighbouring regions, with a particular emphasis on increasing resilience to climate change impacts. 2.3 By managing major schemes to improve the water quality of rivers in the Dumfries and Galloway and neighbouring regions, undertaking habitat enhancement work to benefit all native fish, flora and fauna and running education programmes for schools, colleges, communities and volunteers. These are its charitable purposes for the purposes of section 7 of the 2005 Act. For as long as the Company is entered on the Scottish Charity Register, its purposes may only be altered with the prior consent of OSCR and in accordance with any conditions attached to such consent.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2025 | £959,498 | £838,819 | 10 | 17 December 2025 |
| 31 March 2024 | £831,499 | £614,894 | 10 | 16 December 2024 |
| 31 March 2023 | £461,227 | £457,406 | 10 | 1 December 2023 |
| 31 March 2022 | £416,511 | £427,088 | 10 | 5 January 2023 |
| 31 May 2021 | £356,133 | £372,506 | 10 | 22 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
- Fisheries House, Station Industrial Estate, Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.gallowayfisheriestrust.org
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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