OSCR Scottish charity profile

Inverawe Community Woodland

Known as ICW

ActiveCharity number SC049985
Registered25 February 2020
Main locationArgyll And Bute
Legal formSCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC049985
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
PA35 1HU

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Charity is set up to provide continuing access to the woodland for recreational enjoyment of local and wider communities and to maintain and protect, including preservation, sustainable use of resources and conservation of the natural woodland environment.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • 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 carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

The Organisation has been formed to benefit all of the residents of the communities of the well-known and established catchment known as the Taynuilt Community Council area. This relatively large area has a perimeter of over 50 miles. It, naturally, includes the much smaller and spread out community area of Inverawe, which is located on the North side of the River Awe towards it lower reaches, and also includes the less spread out village communities of Taynuilt and Fearnoch to the West and the settlement of Bridge of Awe to the South East in NW Argyll (Inverawe itself being accessed via a single carriage way unclassified road off the A85 trunk road at Bridge of Awe). The Organisation?s intent is that its purposes will benefit all of the areas communities and residents with a shared interest in terms of clauses 4.1 to 4.3 below (the Community), with the following purposes (the Purposes): 4.1To provide continuing access to the land (?The Subjects?) being purchased from Forestry and Land Scotland for purposes of the recreational enjoyment of members of the Inverawe community, the wider local communities and members of the public at large with the object of maintaining the conditions of life of the Community. 4.2 To maintain and protect, including preservation, sustainable use of resources and conservation of the natural environment, the maintenance & provision of environmental amenities for the Community and the maintenance of the undisturbed state of any/all historically, architecturally or archeologically significant aspects of The Subjects that are of importance to the Community. 4.3 To maintain the habitat and the free movement of the very many varieties of wild fauna to and from, The Subjects in accordance with arrangements as currently exist.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
28 February 2026£0£00Not supplied
28 February 2025£1,240£614031 October 2025
28 February 2024£418£577021 August 2024
28 February 2023£350£841020 August 2023
28 February 2022£25,762£26,04804 October 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
Lochalsh, Inverawe
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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