Charity Details

Bute Conservation Trust

SC017854Registered charity from 12 February 1991

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Notes:

This SCIO was incorporated on 05/03/15 as a result of the conversion of a charitable company (Company number: SC0129935], company name: Bute Conservation Trust)

Charity Information:

The Name the Charity is Known By BCT

Address 5 Eastlands Park
Rothesay
Isle Of Bute

Postcode PA20 9EG

Is the supplied address a principal office or a trustee address? Trustee - Charity Trustee

Website www.discoverbute.co.uk

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Object:

The organisation's purpose is to advance heritage and culture through any or all of the following activities: To preserve and promote the built, natural and social heritage of Bute; To encourage and enable a wider knowledge of that heritage and its conservation; To improve and maintain access to the island 's heritage sites; To improve the environment and to stimulate positive change for the long term; To conserve the natural environment and to promote sustainable development; To promote activities which are part of local or national history or tradition; To provide and promote education and training, particularly in traditional skills; To develop better understanding of the community and the strengthening of links within it; To promote civic participation and volunteering work experience and employment

Operations:

What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:

To advance heritage and culture through any or all of the following activities; to preserve and promote the built, natural and social heritage of Bute; to encourage and enable a wider knowledge of that heritage and its conservation; to improve and maintain access to the island’s heritage sites; to improve the environment and to stimulate positive change for the long term; to conserve the natural environment and to promote sustainable development; to promote activities which are part of local or national history or tradition; to provide and promote education and training, particularly in traditional skills; to develop better understanding of the community and the strengthening of links within it; and to promote civic participation and volunteering work experience and employment. The main focus of activity and use of funds is currently on the maintenance of an extensive network of pathways on Bute including the West Island Way.

Charity Status: Active

Constitutional Form: SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

Constitutional Form Date: 05 Mar 2015

Previous Constitutional Form: Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)

Previous Constitutional Form Date: 12 Feb 1991

Main Operating Location: Argyll And Bute

Number of Staff: 0

Number of Volunteers: 1-50

Purposes: "the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science"

Beneficiaries: "No specific group, or for the benefit of the community"

Types Of Activity Undertaken: "It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations", "It carries out activities or services itself"

Annual Submissions:

Year End	Income	Expenditure	Annual Return Received	Accounts Received	Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
05 Apr 2022	£3,247	£25,393	09 Aug 2022	Yes
05 Apr 2023	£25,142	£21,766	04 Oct 2023	Yes
05 Apr 2024	£8,087	£8,888	17 Sept 2024	Yes
05 Apr 2025	£8,556	£17,499	02 Jul 2025	Yes	Visit Charity's Website
05 Apr 2026			No	Annual Information due by 05 Jan 2027
If an annual return has been received on time (within nine months of the Year End Date), the 'Annual Return Received' box is green . If an annual return is late, the box is red .

Income and Expenditure:

Charity Trustees:

First Name	Last Name
Katie	Warden
Ian	Hopkins
Duncan	Lyon
William	Shields
Donald	Kinnear
James	McMillan
Isobel	Strong
Ruth	Oliver
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