West Highland Community Rail Partnership

Constitutional objectives

4.1 The organisation’s purposes relate to that section of the West Highland Line which extends from Crianlarich to Mallaig (‘the Line”). The organisation will, in such manner as the charity trustees consider appropriate, promote, advance and further its charitable purposes by: Supporting the communities connected to or nearby the Line and stations, and their social and natural environment, opportunities, educational attainment and culture and heritage through community involvement, education and information and working with local and wider stakeholders to boost and build on existing community engagement and cohesion and civic pride to work to create improved, safer, more sustainable communities by access to and harnessing the benefits derived from a railway network engaged with local communities and people including benefitting those coming from outside these communities. 4.2 For the purposes of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 ('the 2005 Act') the following charitable purposes are (i) particularly relevant and (ii) the charitable purposes identified as applicable from section 7 of the 2005 Act: 4.2.1 the advancement of education. 4.2.2 the advancement of citizenship or community development. 4.2.3 the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science. and 4.2.4 the advancement of environmental protection or improvement. 4.3 For the purposes of the Taxes Acts the provisions set out in clauses 4.1 and 4.2 shall be read together to ensure that the charitable purposes of the organisation are compliant with the Taxes Acts.