OSCR Scottish charity profile

Adventure Centre For Education (ACE)

ActiveCharity number SC041556
Registered11 June 2010
Main locationSouth Ayrshire
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC041556
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
More than one local authority area in Scotland
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
6
Postcode
KA26 9PF

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

To promote a community business that develops and utilises local people’s skills in order to provide a broad range of innovative high quality environmental outdoor experiences in the South West of Scotland. The provision of outdoor environmental programmes and public events for charitable purposes.

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
  • the advancement of environmental protection or improvement

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people
  • Other charities or voluntary bodies

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

(1). To provide (or to assist in the provision of) recreational facilities particularly within the Operating Area, and organise (or to assist in the organisation of) recreational 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. (2). The preservation, restoration and improvement of the environment in and around the Operating Area through the provision, maintenance and/or improvement of public open space, public footpaths 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, 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. (3). The promotion for the public benefit of the preservation (whether wholly or in part) of buildings and other structures of historic and/or environmental significance within the Operating Area. 4). The promotion of health benefits of outdoor environmental education, and with particular reference to increasing mental wellbeing, healthy eating, and social inclusion, family cohesion, and the relief of poverty, by providing opportunities to take part in outdoor environmental programmes. MAXIMUM TEXT LIMIT REACHED, PLEASE CONTACT CHARITY FOR FULL OBJECTS

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 May 2025£237,668£158,11463 November 2025
31 May 2024£187,681£232,590610 December 2024
31 May 2023£223,425£150,73368 January 2024
31 May 2022£201,892£206,169621 December 2022
31 May 2021£213,166£119,76366 December 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
Unit 4, Ladywell Avenue, , Grangestone Industrial Estate, Girvan
Website supplied to OSCR
www.adventurecarrick.com
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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