01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC047249
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- A specific local point, community or neighbourhood
- Volunteers
- 1-50 volunteers
- Staff
- 0
- Postcode
- KY11 8XP
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
The West Braes Project is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation. Our main purpose is to run, manage and maintain the Pittenweem Tidal Pool and Pittenweem Crazy Golf. The raise funds to enable us to carry out this work we rely on donations, we hold fund raising events such as our Strawberry Fayre and coffee mornings, we design and sell calendars , we charge a fee for playing the crazy golf and we sell teas, coffees, snacks, branded merchandise from our hut at the West Braes .
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 advancement of public participation in sport
- 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 makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
- It carries out activities or services itself
Constitutional objectives
4.1 To provide within 'the Community' recreational facilities, or organise recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended. 4.2 To advance education and in particular to promote opportunities for learning for the benefit of the general public. 4.3 To advance environmental protection and improvement in 'the Community' 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). 4.4 To prevent or relieve poverty particularly among the residents of ' the Community'. 4.5 To help young people, particularly those resident in 'the Community', to develop their physical, mental and spiritual capacities, such that they may grow to full maturity as individuals and as members of society. 4.6 To advance heritage and/or 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. 4.7 To advance the health of the residents of 'the Community', and to assist in the relief of ill health and the provision of health education for such residents.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Total income | Donations | Charitable activities income | Trading income | Investment income | Other income | Total expenditure | Raising funds | Charitable activities spending | Other spending | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2025 | £23,399 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £18,006 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 9 November 2025 |
| 31 March 2024 | £24,330 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £46,757 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 8 November 2024 |
| 31 March 2023 | £24,911 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £29,792 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 7 October 2023 |
| 31 March 2022 | £50,561 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £55,024 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 3 August 2022 |
| 31 March 2021 | £276,555 | £268,466 | £8,089 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £227,971 | £1,364 | £226,607 | £0 | 0 | 22 June 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
- 19 Lochy Rise, Dunfermline, Fife
- Website supplied to OSCR
- Not supplied
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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