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Galloway Conservation Society

SC021787Registered charity from 23 January 1978
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Charity Information Operations Annual Submissions Income and Expenditure Charity Trustees
Notes:
Previous name - Galloway Preservation Society from 23/01/1978 to 25/10/2023
Charity Information:
Address Lucewater House
New Luce
Postcode DG8 0AW
Is the supplied address a principal office or a trustee address? Trustee - Charity Trustee
Website www.gallowaypreservationsociety.org.uk
Regulatory Type Standard
Object:
• Stimulate public interest and participation in the care for the beauty, history and character of Galloway. • Encourage the preservation, development and improvement of features of general public amenity or historical interest. • Encourage high standards of architecture and town and country planning in Galloway.
Operations:
What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:
We are about Galloway and the region as a whole; - its character, history, natural resources and beauty. We aim to encourage the conservation, development and improvement of features of general amenity, landscape, cultural heritage, natural heritage, gardens and historical interest. We aim to encourage high standards of architecture and town and country planning in the region. In our view, South West Scotland offers a distinctive and unique combination of long-established cultural landscapes and backdrops of wilder land. There are now many pressures on the fabric of rural life and on the rural economy. These pressures impact on the Society’s main concerns in many ways. We see it as part of our mission to respond to some of this change, through appropriate democratic means, to listen and to reflect. Rather than outright opposition in every case, the Society prefers to try to adopt a middle path, which seeks to avoid unnecessary damage to regional assets where it can be avoided.
Charity Status: Active
Constitutional Form: Unincorporated association
Constitutional Form Date: 23 Jan 1978
Main Operating Location: Dumfries And Galloway
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
31 Dec 2021 £610 £93 02 May 2022 Yes
31 Dec 2022 £530 £426 24 Jul 2023 Yes
31 Dec 2023 £455 £710 30 Sept 2024 Yes
31 Dec 2024 £980 £646 23 Sept 2025 Yes Not published by OSCR
31 Dec 2025 No Annual Information due by 30 Sept 2026
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
David Steel
Jane Maitland
Alistair Buckoke
Mary Broom-Smith
David Hannay
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