OSCR Scottish charity profile

Bat's Wood Growing Space & Bike Track (SCIO)

Known as Bat's Wood

ActiveCharity number SC049338
Registered29 May 2019
Main locationFife
Legal formSCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC049338
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
KY1 2AT

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The purposes of Bat’s Wood SCIO are to advance environmental protection, education, and community development by creating and maintaining woodland and outdoor learning spaces in Levenmouth. During 2024/25, our main activities included: The Willow Worlds community research and planting project. Educational collaborations with local schools and volunteers. Film-based environmental storytelling (“Levenmouth: A Climate Beacon?”). Biodiversity improvements through soil enrichment and sustainable planting.

Charitable purposes

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

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

4.1 The provision of, or organisation of, recreational facilities with the object of improving conditions of live for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended by providing a mountain bike track open to all and free to use. 4.2. The protection and improvement of the local environment by developing and maintaining the wood and growing space, developing an orchard and providing environmental education including in the practice of permaculture. 4.3 To advance the education of young people by providing construction work skills and work placements. 5. In furtherance of these purposes, the charity seeks to. 5.1. Establish or to secure the establishment of an outdoor cycling track and to maintain and manage, or to co-operate with any local statutory authority or authorities in the maintenance and management of such a track for activities promoted by the trustees and its constituent bodies in the furtherance of the above objects or any of them

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£6,442£9,054029 December 2025
31 March 2024£9,621£6,04001 November 2024
31 March 2023£1,058£1,989024 September 2023
31 March 2022£4,123£4,12707 November 2022
31 March 2021£4,887£6,55704 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
111 Lady Nairn Avenue, Kirkcaldy, Fife
Website supplied to OSCR
www.batswood.org.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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