OSCR Scottish charity profile

Countryside Learning Scotland

ActiveCharity number SC034859
Registered8 October 2003
Main locationMidlothian
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC034859
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Operations cover all or most of Scotland
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
7
Postcode
PH10 6HL

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Our charity is set up to provide a framework for Scotland to enhance career and life opportunities for young people and meet the employment needs to businesses across rural Scotland, through the delivery of a progressive engaging pathway into employment across rural Scotland working in partnership with teachers, employers and related agencies.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of health
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended
  • the advancement of environmental protection or improvement

Beneficiaries

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

Activities

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

Constitutional objectives

Promoting and undertaking research into and study of rural and countryside 'resources with associated habitat, flora and fauna and for those interested in working in rural or countryside areas in Scotland and for the benefit of all persons interested in such resources, associated habitats and flora and fauna and for those interested in working in rural or countryside areas. 2. Advancing the education of all persons interested in such resources, associated habitats and flora and fauna and of those interested in working in rural or countryside areas by raising their awareness and understanding of the importance of such resources, habitats, their conservation and sustainable development. and 3. Such other purposes as are recognised by law to be exclusively charitable within the meaning of Section 505 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 or any Act amending or replacing the same and which relate to such resources, habitat, flora and fauna, environmental conservation and the education and science thereof as the Trustees may from time to time in their sole discretion select and that without prejudice to the foregoing generality and without in any way fettering their said discretion.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endTotal incomeDonationsCharitable activities incomeTrading incomeInvestment incomeOther incomeTotal expenditureRaising fundsCharitable activities spendingOther spendingStaffReturn received
30 June 2025£230,585£0£0£0£0£0£187,753£0£0£0719 February 2026
30 June 2024£199,196£0£0£0£0£0£161,080£0£0£0724 January 2025
30 June 2023£175,789£0£0£0£0£0£152,081£0£0£0721 December 2023
30 June 2022£186,776£0£0£0£0£0£153,926£0£0£0731 January 2023
30 June 2021£146,202£0£0£0£0£0£84,256£0£0£0730 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
Top Office, 1 Upper Allan Street, Blairgowrie, Perthshire
Website supplied to OSCR
www.countrysidelearningscotland.org.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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