OSCR Scottish charity profile

Ardentinny Community Trust Limited

ActiveCharity number SC034235
Registered6 March 2003
Main locationArgyll And Bute
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC034235
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
A specific local point, community or neighbourhood
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
pa238tr

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The walled garden was purchased from The Forestry Land Scotland A sensory reflective garden ,the gardens are run and maintained by community volunteers. We have held two very successful events this year Easter and Harvest fairs. Community payback and H.E.L.P have supported the garden with a regular band of volunteers who help keep the garden in good order. We are continuing to work with a regular band neurodivergent volunteers . Through grants and donations we have now 32 raised beds 25 of which are managed by local folk 7 we use to grow vegetables and fruit which enables us to have good sales of jam and vegetables grown in the garden

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • 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 relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
  • the advancement of animal welfare

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people
  • Older People
  • People with disabilities or health problems
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

a) to provide, in the interests of social welfare, facilities for recreation and other leisure time activity available to the public at large within the village of Ardentinny and the surrounding landward area - as defined by the Ardentinny Community Council boundaries (the Operating Area) -with a view to improving their conditions of life. b) to preserve, restore and improve the environment in the operating Area through the provision , maintenance and lor 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 purposes of land whose use has been prevented or restricted because of previous use. c) To promote for public benefit the preservation (whether wholly or in part) of buildings and other structures of historic and/or architectural significance located within the Operating Area. d) to provide or assist in the provision of housing for people in necessitous circumstances within the Operating Area. e) to advance education and to promote training programmes and' opportunities for the benefit of the residents of the Operating Area particularly among young -people and the unemployed. f) to relieve poverty among the residents of the Operating Area. g) to promote, establish and operate other schemes of a charitable nature for the benefit of the community within the Operating Area.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£10,385£9,683010 November 2025
31 March 2024£9,453£7,767021 November 2024
31 March 2023£4,588£6,174016 August 2023
31 March 2022£5,872£6,58702 August 2022
31 March 2021£2,946£9,65906 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
Caberfeidh, Shore Road, Ardentinny, Dunoon, Argyll & Bute
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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