Ballachulish Community Company

Constitutional objectives

(a) To ameliorate the effects of poverty among persons residing in the Ballachulish and Glencoe Community Council Area ('the Operating .Area ). (b) To provide or assist in the provision within the Operating Area of facilities for recreation and other leisure time occupation availalble to the public at large with a view to improving their conditions of life. (c) To promote for the public benefit the preservation (whether wholly or in part) of buildings and other structures of historic andlor architectural significance located within the Operating Area. (d) To advance education among the residents of the Operating Area, particularly among young people and the unemployed. (e) To ameliorate the effects of unemployment within the Operating Area for the public benefit in such ways as may be thought fit. (f) To promote andlor provide training in skills of all kinds, particularly such skills as will assist residents of the Operating Area in obtaining piaid employment. (g) TO preserve, restore and improve the environment within the Operating Area through (i) protection andlor preservation of the natural environment and (ii) the provision, maintenance andlor improvement of public open space and other public amenities and other environmental and townscape 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 purDposes of land whose use has been prevented or restricted because of previous use. (h) To promote good health practice, particularly among residents of the Operating Area. (i) to promote, establish, operate, andlor support scllemes of a charitable nature for the benefit of the residents of the Operating Area, withajut distinction of sex, race, colour or pol