OSCR Scottish charity profile

Girvan Community Garden

ActiveCharity number SC040969
Registered23 October 2009
Main locationSouth Ayrshire
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC040969
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
A specific local point, community or neighbourhood
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
2
Postcode
KA26 9AL

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Girvan Community Garden, founded in 2007, is a Scottish charity dedicated to regenerating local land in Girvan and nearby villages for community benefit. We advance citizenship through volunteering, training, and providing shared spaces, with over 1,700 volunteer hours annually. The garden offers recreational facilities, attracting over 1,800 visitors each year, fostering inclusivity and well-being. Environmental sustainability is central to our work, with initiatives like organic gardening, wildlife areas, solar panels, and upcycling to reduce our carbon footprint. Funding from government, events, and donations supports our growth, ensuring we remain a hub for community connection and development.

Charitable purposes

  • 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

  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

To advance development and regeneration of the area of land situated at rear of Knockcushan House, 25 Knockcushan St, Girvan, and other areas of land in Girvan and surrounding villages in South Ayrshire, as defined below ('the Operating Area') by all or any of the following means: a. the creation of a community garden for use by the community of the Operating Area in the area of land situated at the rear of Knockcushan House. b. volunteering, training and employment opportunities by the provision of workspace, buildings and/or land for use on favourable terms. c. the provision of public artwork and public events for charitable purposes, and d. such other means as may from time to time be determined, subject to the directors having satisfied themselves that such other means can reasonably be regarded as being in direct furtherance of a charitable purpose (within the meaning of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005, including any statutory modification or re-enactment of the relevant provisions of that Act). (2) To provide (or to assist in the provision of) recreational horticultural facilities particularly within the Operating Area, and organise (or to assist in the organisation of) recreational horticultural activities particularly within the Operating Area, with such facilities/activities being available to members of the public at large and/or those who, by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, poverty or social and economic circumstances, have need of such facilities with the object of improving their conditions of life.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
30 April 2025£67,503£55,21523 December 2025
30 April 2024£65,319£44,530222 November 2024
30 April 2023£59,162£47,032212 January 2024
30 April 2022£34,865£28,48921 February 2023
30 April 2021£26,533£19,126214 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
Carrick Buildings, Henrietta Street, Girvan, Ayrshire
Website supplied to OSCR
www.girvancommunitygarden.com
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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