OSCR Scottish charity profile

Carrick Futures

ActiveCharity number SC043722
Registered22 January 2013
Main locationSouth Ayrshire
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC043722
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Wider, but within one local authority area
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
EH8 8DL

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Carrick Futures is a funder which distributes community benefit payments from windfarms in the form of grants which provide community benefit in South Carrick.

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of health
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
  • 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
  • the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
  • any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes

Beneficiaries

  • Other defined groups
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

The company has been formed to benefit the community of Carrick and, in particular, the communities of Ballantrae, Barr, Barrhill, Colmonell and Lendalfoot, Girvan, Pinwherry and Pinmore ('the Community') with the following objects :- 4.1 To promote, for the public benefit, rural regeneration within the Community which shall include the promotion of trade and industry within the Community, for the benefit of the general public. 4.2 To advance environmental protection and/or improvement within the Community and in particular through 4.2.1 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). and 4.2.2 encouraging the more efficient use of the world's resources, and in particular greater use of renewable energy sources so as (a) to minimise the proliferation of mines, wells and other extraction facilities which degrade the natural environment and (b) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and thus avoid the damage to the natural environment caused by global warming. 4.4 To provide recreational facilities and/or to organise recreational activities, within the Community, with such facilities/activities being available to members of the public at large with the object of improving their conditions of life. 4.5 To advance heritage through preserving, 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. 4.6 To prevent or relieve poverty among the residents of the Community. MAXIMUM TEXT REACHED. CONTACT CHARITY DIRECTLY FOR FULL DOCUMENT.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 December 2025£0£00Not supplied
31 December 2024£517,334£726,368030 September 2025
31 December 2023£507,718£7,154027 September 2024
31 December 2022£420,220£330,086018 September 2023
31 December 2021£398,160£213,970014 September 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
c/o Foundation Scotland, 15 Calton Road, Edinburgh
Website supplied to OSCR
www.carrickfutures.org.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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