OSCR Scottish charity profile

Angus Countryside Initiative

Known as Rhet Angus Countryside Initiative

ActiveCharity number SC032661
Registered7 January 2002
Main locationAngus
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC032661
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
More than one local authority area in Scotland
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
DD9 6TL

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

We work with partners, as part of a national RHET network, to educate local young people aged 3-18 about sustainable food production, farming and the countryside.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of health
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
  • the advancement of environmental protection or improvement
  • the advancement of animal welfare

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people
  • Other defined groups
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

The Company is established for charitable objects and purposes only and, in particular, to advance public education by:- (1) The promotion and encouragement of the dissemination of information concerning Scottish wildlife, agriculture, forestry, rural industries and the countryside (2) increasing the general public's awareness of their symbiosis with the biological diversity, rural environment, countryside life and economy of Scotland (3) Improving the general public's understanding of the policies and actions necessary to sustain long~term food and timber production, and provision for wildlife and its habitats (4) By carrying out and developing at a local level the activities of the charitable body with which the Company is and shall remain affiliated, namely, The Royal Highland Education Trust (a company limited by guarantee, incorporated in Scotland with registered number 123813, and being Scottish charity number SC007492, hereinafter referred to as 'RHET'). the operations of the Company to be confmed to the designated geographical area known generally as Angus Countryside Initiative area ), being the present local authority area of Angus as more particularly defmed by the postcodes DD2, DD3, DD4, DDS, DD7, DD8, DD9, DDlO, DD11

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
30 September 2025£31,832£25,864017 June 2026
30 September 2024£22,719£24,716026 March 2025
30 September 2023£21,363£22,246014 March 2024
30 September 2022£23,834£22,558012 April 2023
30 September 2021£4,000£3,06704 March 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
Farmhouse Burghill, Brechin, Angus
Website supplied to OSCR
www.rhet.org.uk
Parent charity
Royal Highland Education Trust · SC007492

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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