OSCR Scottish charity profile

The West Braes Project

ActiveCharity number SC047249
Registered17 March 2017
Main locationFife
Legal formSCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
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

5 periods
Year endTotal incomeDonationsCharitable activities incomeTrading incomeInvestment incomeOther incomeTotal expenditureRaising fundsCharitable activities spendingOther spendingStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£23,399£0£0£0£0£0£18,006£0£0£009 November 2025
31 March 2024£24,330£0£0£0£0£0£46,757£0£0£008 November 2024
31 March 2023£24,911£0£0£0£0£0£29,792£0£0£007 October 2023
31 March 2022£50,561£0£0£0£0£0£55,024£0£0£003 August 2022
31 March 2021£276,555£268,466£8,089£0£0£0£227,971£1,364£226,607£0022 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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