Arrochar & Tarbet Community Development Trust

Constitutional objectives

(a) To relieve poverty among those residents of Arrochar, Tarbet, Succoth, upper Loch Long and upper Loch Lomondside which is the general area and boundaries covered by the locally elected Community Council for Arrochar and Tarbet. (The Operating Area). (b) To relieve the needs of those in the community who are disadvantaged by reason of their rural isolation in such ways as are charitable in law, including the young, unemployed, elderly, those suffering from mental and/or physical disability, illness or impairment. (c) To provide in the interests of social welfare within the Operating Area facilities for recreation and other leisure time occupation available to the public at large with a view to improving their conditions of life. (d) To advance education particularly, but not exclusively, amongst unemployed people through the provision of various forms of educational opportunities thereby contributing to the life-long learning and development of such individuals. (e) To promote training skills and opportunities of all kinds, particularly such skills as will assist residents in the Operating Area to obtain gainful employment. (f) To promote, facilitate and support other schemes and projects of a charitable nature for the benefit of the community within the Operating Area. (g) To preserve, restore and improve the environment in and around the Operating Area through the provision, maintenance and/or improvement of public open space and other public amenities and other environmental and rural regeneration projects, and in doing so, to seek wherever appropriate (but subject to appropriate safeguards to ensure that the public benefit so arising clearly outweighs any private benefit thereby conferred on private landowners) to carry out works of reclamation, remediation, restoration and other operations to facilitate the use for those purposes of land whose use has been prevented or restricted because of previous use. (h) To promote for the public