Ardoch Development Trust

Constitutional objectives

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 development' means development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. 2. To provide in the interests of social welfare, facilities within the Community for recreation and other leisure time occupation available to the public at large. 3. To advance education and in particular to promote opportunities for learning for the benefit of the general public. 4. To advance education through promotion of the arts. 5. To preserve, restore and improve the environment in t through the provision, maintenance and/or improvement of public open space and other public amenities and other environmental and regeneration projects (but subject to appropriate safeguards to ensure that the public benefits so arising clearly outweigh any private benefit thereby conferred on private landowners). 6. To provide or assist in the provision of housing for people in necessitous circumstances within the Community. 7. To relieve poverty particularly among the residents of the Community. 8. To promote training, particularly among residents of the Community, and with particular reference to skills which will assist the participants in obtainingpaid employment. 9. To encourage, stimulate and support volunteering principally in the Community. 10. To preserve, for the benefit of the general public, the historical, architectural and constructional heritage that may exist in and around the Community in buildings (including any structure or erection, and any part of a building as so defined) of particular beauty or historical, architectural or constructional interest. Text exceeds limit.