OSCR Scottish charity profile

Isle Futures

ActiveCharity number SC037758
Registered25 January 2007
Main locationDumfries And Galloway
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC037758
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Wider, but within one local authority area
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
3
Postcode
G2 1QQ

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Isle Futures was set up with the main aims of the prevention or relief of poverty, the advancement of citizenship or community development, the advancement of environmental protection or improvement and the relief of those in need by reason on age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantages. After successful funding bids, the charity took ownership of the local village hall and developed the space, extending the building to include the village hall, conference meeting room and a community shop (providing the only shop in the village)and tearoom facilities. The charity and its trading arm provides employment to a number of local people each year through permanent roles as well as seasonal work. Also providing first time jobs and work experience for a number of youngsters throughout school holidays.Host and encourage local groups as well as creating a regular calendar of events and support services such as Family Fun Days, Mental Health and Wellbeing Sessions.

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • 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

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

To relieve poverty, particularly among the residents of the lsle of Whithorn and surrounding area. To relieve the need, suffering and distress of those who are isolated byway of their age or infirmity/disability and to seek to involve them in the community as a way of ending their isolation. To provide or assist in the provision of amenities for the benefit of the general public, providing always that these amenities are over and above those that it is the statutory obligation of the local authority to provide and that any private benefit incurred is greatly outweighed by the public benefit. To promote the benefit of the inhabitants of the Isle of Whithorn and its environs by associating the local statutory authorities, voluntary organisations and inhabitants in a common effort to advance education and to provide, or assist in the provision of the facilities, in the interest of social welfare for recreation and other leisure-time occupation so their conditions of life can improve. To promote and/or provide training, financial or technical assistance, or business advice or consultancy in order' to assist the beneficiaries in obtaining, creating or sustaining employment opportunities within the community either by setting up their own business or through an existing business. To preserve, restore and improve the environment in and around the Isle of Whithorn through the provision, maintenance and/or improvement to public open space and other public amenities and other environmental and townscape regeneration projects and on the basis that in doing so, the company shall 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, restoration, erosion prevention and other operations to facilitate the use of these purposes of land whose use has been prevented or restricted because of previou

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 December 2024£128,006£163,202329 September 2025
31 December 2023£138,609£199,324327 September 2024
31 December 2022£113,968£86,682328 September 2023
31 December 2021£139,665£87,74836 October 2022
31 December 2020£85,332£68,697318 October 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
Opus Business Advisory Group, 9 George Square, Glasgow
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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