OSCR Scottish charity profile

Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust - Scotland

ActiveCharity number SC053164
Registered6 March 2024
Main locationHighland
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC053164
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
More than one local authority area in Scotland
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
JE3 5BP

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Advancement of environmental protection through the implementation and maintenance of ecological restoration projects to recover ecosystem function and resilience in the landscape, habitat improvement for wildlife, species recovery, and in future education, training and research activities. This will be focussed on Dalnacardoch estate and the restoration of the land through rivers, peatland and woodland. The current focus is on surveying and baselining various ecological factors on the land including tree regeneration transect surveys, insect and weather monitoring. Deer management is also a priority, as the reduction and control of deer numbers is critical in allowing natural regeneration of the land to take place. In addition to this, there are aims to work on conservation of wildlife and public promotion of conservation and wild spaces. m nature restoration and how these can be delivered.

Charitable purposes

  • 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

2 Objects 2.1 The Company's objects are, the advancement of environmental protection or improvement by: 2.1.1 the public promotion of the conservation of wildlife and wild places in Scotland and elsewhere. 2.1.2 the implementation and maintenance of ecological restoration projects to recover ecosystem function and resilience in the landscape, habitat improvement for wildlife, species recovery, together with education, training, research and other such activities as may be necessary. 2.1.3 the implementation and maintenance of a breeding centre for species to be reintroduced into the landscape for conservation purposes, research, training and for public education. and 2.1.4 assisting programmes for the conservation of wildlife in any part of the world, in particular (but without limitation) those established by DWCT. 2.2 For the purposes of the Charities Act the following Charitable Purpose is relevant and for the purposes of the Charities Act is the Charitable Purpose identified as applicable from section 7 of the Charities Act:- 2.2.1 the advancement of environmental protection or improvement.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

2 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 December 2025£0£00Not supplied
31 December 2024£23,800£133,270029 September 2025

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
Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, Les Augres Manor, La Profonde Rue, Trinity, Jersey, Channel Islands
Website supplied to OSCR
www.durrell.org
Parent charity
Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust · 1

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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