Benmore And Kilmun Community Development Trust

Constitutional objectives

a) to manage community land and associated assets for the benefit of the Community and the public in general as an important part of the protection and sustainable development of Scotland's natural environment. b) to provide, in the interests of social welfare, facilities for recreation and other leisure time activity available to the public at large within the Community - with a view to improving their conditions of life. c) to preserve, restore and improve the environment in the Community 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. d) 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 Community. e) to relieve the needs of people who are elderly or who are otherwise in need of care within the Community. t) to advance education and to promote training programmes and opportunities for the benefit of the residents of the Community particularly among young people and the unemployed. g) to relieve poverty among the residents of the Community h) to promote, establish and operate other schemes of a similar charitable nature for the benefit of the community within the Community i) all the above purposes are to be exercised following the principles of sustainable development (where sustainable development means development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs)