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Kilfinan Community Forest Company

SC038908Registered charity from 08 November 2007
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Charity Information Operations Annual Submissions Income and Expenditure Charity Trustees
Charity Information:
Address Kilfinan Community Forest
Tighnabruaich
Argyll
Postcode PA21 2BD
Website www.kilfinancommunityforest.com
Regulatory Type Standard
Link to Companies House https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/
Object:
The Company is established to benefit the community of Kilfinan (as defined by the postcode unit PA21 and hereon in as "the Community") with the following Objects which are: 3.1 To manage community land and associated assets for the benefit of the Community and the public in general as an important part of the protection and sustainable development of Scotland's natural environment, where "sustainable devel~pment'~ means development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. 3.2 To promote, for the public benefit, rural regeneration, following principles of sustainable development (where 'sustainable development' means development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs), in areas of social and economic deprivation within the Community 3.3 To advance the education of the Community about its environment, culture andlor history; and 3.4 Such other purposes ancillary thereto as may be necessary or desirable for the furtherance of the foregoing objects.
Operations:
What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:
KCFC was set up to manage Kilfinan Community Forest for the benefit of the entire community. It's many aims include sustainable forestry management, provision of leisure and educational facilities, affordable workspaces to encourage local enterprise, woodland crofts and self-build house plots, forest products such as firewood for members of the community in fuel poverty and indoor and outdoor growing spaces for small-scale food production leased to a local group. Whilst larger projects are contracted out to local businesses, the vast majority are carried out by local volunteers. Funding for the charity comes primarily from renewable electricity generation and occasional timber harvests.
Charity Status: Active
Constitutional Form: Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)
Constitutional Form Date: 08 Nov 2007
Main Operating Location: Argyll And Bute
Number of Staff: 1
Number of Volunteers: 1-50
Purposes: "the advancement of education", "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"
Beneficiaries: "No specific group, or for the benefit of the community"
Types Of Activity Undertaken: "It carries out activities or services itself"
Annual Submissions:
Year End Income Expenditure Annual Return Received Accounts Received Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
31 Mar 2022 £430 £124 23 Feb 2023 Yes
31 Mar 2023 £406,744 £130,138 21 Dec 2023 Yes
31 Mar 2024 £141,967 £267,743 19 Dec 2024 Yes
31 Mar 2025 £115,505 £154,951 23 Dec 2025 Yes Published accounts can be found on the Companies House website
31 Mar 2026 No Annual Information due by 31 Dec 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
Alisdair Porter
Steven Wallis
Robert Brady
Jesse Cohen
Stuart Dillon
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