01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC038908
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- A specific local point, community or neighbourhood
- Volunteers
- 1-50 volunteers
- Staff
- 1
- Postcode
- PA21 2BD
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
KCFC was set up to manage Kilfinan Community Forest for the benefit of the entire community. It's many aims include sustainable forestry management, provision of leisure and educational facilities, affordable workspaces to encourage local enterprise, woodland crofts and self-build house plots, forest products such as firewood for members of the community in fuel poverty and indoor and outdoor growing spaces for small-scale food production leased to a local group. Whilst larger projects are contracted out to local businesses, the vast majority are carried out by local volunteers. Funding for the charity comes primarily from renewable electricity generation and occasional timber harvests.
Charitable purposes
- the advancement of education
- 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
Beneficiaries
- No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
Activities
- It carries out activities or services itself
Constitutional objectives
The Company is established to benefit the community of Kilfinan (as defined by the postcode unit PA21 and hereon in as 'the Community') with the following Objects which are: 3.1 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, where 'sustainable devel~pment'~ means development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. 3.2 To promote, for the public benefit, rural regeneration, following 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), in areas of social and economic deprivation within the Community 3.3 To advance the education of the Community about its environment, culture andlor history. and 3.4 Such other purposes ancillary thereto as may be necessary or desirable for the furtherance of the foregoing objects.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2025 | £115,505 | £154,951 | 1 | 23 December 2025 |
| 31 March 2024 | £141,967 | £267,743 | 1 | 19 December 2024 |
| 31 March 2023 | £406,744 | £130,138 | 1 | 21 December 2023 |
| 31 March 2022 | £430 | £124 | 1 | 23 February 2023 |
| 31 March 2021 | £318,228 | £255,894 | 1 | 30 May 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
- Kilfinan Community Forest, Tighnabruaich, Argyll
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.kilfinancommunityforest.com
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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