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Forres Friends of Woods and Fields

SC050361Registered charity from 31 July 2020
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Charity Information:
Address Rosewood
Alexandra Terrace
Forres
Postcode IV36 1DJ
Website www.forresfriends.com
Regulatory Type Standard
Object:
The organisation's purposes are: To advance environmental protection and improvement through the careful management of woodland and the organic cultivation of fields within the community of Forres. The provision of recreational facilities and activities by developing outdoor, land-based projects and facilities to host them for the general public. To advance education by developing and hosting land-based educational programmes. To advance health by offering land-based health focused programmes and workshops. To advance citizenship and community development by creating volunteer programmes and bringing together local residents in community food growing.
Operations:
What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:
Forres Friends of Woods and Fields (FFWF) aims to cultivate an understanding and appreciation of nature, with community wellbeing at its core. It does this through local food growing and stewardship of 26 acres of land on the edge of the town of Forres, Moray, Scotland. The charity looks after the Kennel Wood and adjacent Field on the ridge to the south of Sanquhar Pond, and the Chapelton Fields up towards the old farmhouse, including parts of the Mosset Burn. Our land borders that of other well-established environmental organisations in Forres, namely the Sanquhar Pond Group, which cares for the council-owned woodlands and trails around Sanquhar Pond, and the Forres Community Woodland Trust, which manages the bulk of Sanquhar Woods. These areas together form a vital and intriguing wildlife and recreational asset for the town.
Charity Status: Active
Constitutional Form: SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
Constitutional Form Date: 31 Jul 2020
Main Operating Location: Highland
Number of Staff: 0
Number of Volunteers: 51-100
Purposes: "the advancement of education", "the advancement of health", "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", "the advancement of environmental protection or improvement"
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 Jul 2021 £11,702 £10,863 15 Jan 2022 Yes
31 Jul 2022 £12,535 £3,724 02 Feb 2023 Yes
31 Jul 2023 £18,141 £18,556 14 Feb 2024 Yes
31 Jul 2024 £36,896 £41,731 28 Jan 2025 Yes
31 Jul 2025 £33,959 £6,279 01 Apr 2026 Yes Download
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
Benjamin Fretwell
Mick Drury
patricia Brown
Chris Dewhurst
Sarah Cole
Alan Gilchrist
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