OSCR Scottish charity profile

Royal Northern Countryside Initiative

ActiveCharity number SC033448
Registered24 July 2002
Main locationAberdeenshire
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 4 November 2026
OSCR charity number
SC033448
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
More than one local authority area in Scotland
Volunteers
51-100 volunteers
Staff
4
Postcode
AB31 6DJ

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

RNCI is a charity set up to develop a greater understanding of farming and the working countryside by pupils and their teachers in the North East of Scotland. We set up and provide classroom talks, nursey boxes, farm visits, classroom on wheels as well as Estate days and show events.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of environmental protection or improvement

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people

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 (i) the promotion and encouragement of the dissemination of information concerning Scottish wildlife, agriculture, forestry, rural industries and the countryside (ii) increasing the general public's awareness of their symbiosis with the biological diversity, rural environment, countryside life and economy of Scotland (iii) 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 and (iv) by carrying out and developing at a local level the activities of the charitable body with which the Company is and shall (subject as aftermentioned) 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 confined to the designated geographical area known generally as Royal Northern Countryside Initiative area (hereinafter referred to as the 'RNCI area'), being the present local authority areas of Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire and Morayshire as more particularly defined by the postcodes ABIO, ABII, ABI3, ABI4, ABI5, ABI6, AB21, AB22, AB23, AB24,AB25, AB30, AB31, AB32, AB33, AB34, AB35, AB36, AB37, AB38, AB42, AB43, AB44, AB45, AB53, AB54, AB55, AB56, IV 12, IV36, IV30, IV32, IV30 and DD 1 0.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endTotal incomeDonationsCharitable activities incomeTrading incomeInvestment incomeOther incomeTotal expenditureRaising fundsCharitable activities spendingOther spendingStaffReturn received
30 November 2025£66,669£0£0£0£0£0£60,172£0£0£0431 August 2026
30 November 2024£71,436£0£0£0£0£0£60,686£0£0£0426 August 2025
30 November 2023£42,429£0£0£0£0£0£63,902£0£0£0413 August 2024
30 November 2022£50,975£0£0£0£0£0£73,514£0£0£0415 August 2023
30 November 2021£49,475£0£0£0£0£0£51,128£0£0£0423 August 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
Darnford Farm, Durris, Banchory
Website supplied to OSCR
www.rnci.org.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied
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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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