Charity Details

Scotland's Gardens Scheme SCIO

SC049866Registered charity from 16 January 2020

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Notes:

This charity was established to replace Scotland's Gardens Scheme, SC011337 Scotland's Gardens Scheme, SC011337 has now wound up and passed its assets and liabilities to Scotland's Gardens Scheme SCIO, SC049866 which is a SCIO

Charity Information:

Address 2nd Floor
23 Castle Street
Edinburgh

Postcode EH2 3DN

Website www.scotlandsgardens.org

Regulatory Type Standard

Object:

3.1 The Charitable Purposes of the SCIO ("the Charitable Purposes") are, via the opening of gardens throughout Scotland to the public, and other projects; 3.1.1 to advance health and well-being; 3.1.2 to advance heritage and culture; 3.1.3 to advance community development through the promotion of volunteering; 3.1.4 to advance education; and/or 3.1.5 to support community projects and provide funding to charities, clubs and organisations in order to enable them to implement, or assist in the implementation of, their own projects the purposes of which promote any charitable purpose as set out in section 7(2) of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005.

Operations:

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

Our mission is to raise funds for charity by encouraging, promoting and supporting garden openings in an enjoyable and rewarding way. We aim to ensure we have a good base of gardens and a strong and supported volunteer base by welcoming and encouraging people of all ages and backgrounds to get involved. We ensure we have good governance and financial sustainability as well as a supported staff team. We ensure that our role as a fundraising charity is front and centre of our work, maximising the funds we raise for charity.

Charity Status: Active

Constitutional Form: SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

Constitutional Form Date: 16 Jan 2020

Main Operating Location: City of Edinburgh

Number of Staff: 4

Number of Volunteers: over 250

Purposes: "the prevention or relief of poverty", "the advancement of education", "the advancement of religion", "the advancement of health", "the saving of lives", "the advancement of citizenship or community development", "the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science", "the advancement of public participation in sport", "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 human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation", "the promotion of religious or racial harmony", "the promotion of equality and diversity", "the advancement of environmental protection or improvement", "the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage", "the advancement of animal welfare"

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

Types Of Activity Undertaken: "It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals", "It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations"

Annual Submissions:

Year End	Income	Expenditure	Annual Return Received	Accounts Received	Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
31 Dec 2021	£360,629	£380,545	05 May 2022	Yes
31 Dec 2022	£478,425	£444,249	31 May 2023	Yes
31 Dec 2023	£482,929	£502,037	13 May 2024	Yes
31 Dec 2024	£557,673	£488,489	23 Aug 2025	Yes	Visit Charity's Website
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
Eric	Wright
Rory	Byatt
Helen	McMeekin
David	Buchanan-Cook
Alexandra	Lindsay
Peter	Yellowlees
Robert	Crosbie
Stephen	McCallum
Charlotte	Halliday
Dougal	Philip
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