## **APPENDIX 1**
|**Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**|**Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**|**Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**|**Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**|**Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**|**Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**|**Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**|**Trustees’ Annual Report for the period**|
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Office of the Scottish **Charity Regulator**
## **Reference and administration details**
> **Charity name** Badenoch & Strathspeyu Conservation Group **Other names charity is known by Registered charity number SC** 003846
> **Charity’s principal address** Fiodhag Nethybridge Inverness-shire
> **Postcode** PH25 3DJ
**Names of the charity trustees on date of approval of Trustees’ Annual Report**
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## **Reference and administration details**
**Names of all other charity trustees during the period, if any, (for example, those who resigned part way through the financial period)**
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|**Structure, governance and management**|||
|**Type of governing document**
**Trustee recruitment and appointment**|||
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|**Objectives and activities**|||
|**Charitable purposes**
**Summary of the main activities**
**in relation to these objects**|||
||The aims of the Grou are:||
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a) To stimulate interest in and care for, the beauty, history and
character of Badenoch & Strathspey;
b) To encourage active conservation of the area through wise
use;
c) To encourage high standards of planning and architecture
in harmony with the environment.||
||The Grou rovided comments and information in relation to||
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planning applications and the impacts they may have on
particular species and landscapes, recreational opportunities
and aspects of the environment such as flood risk. The Group
liased with other environmental NGOs regarding issues and
sites of shared interest. We shared information publicly
through various media and we engaged with public
consultations regardingaspects of the environment.||
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## **Achievements and performance**
|**Summary of the main achievements of**
**the charity during the financial period**|The Group provided comments and information about the impacts on|
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natural heritage interests and the environment of developments including
an extension to the caravan site undertaken without planning permission
on The Mossie, Grantown; proposals for a campsite, 7 cabins and a large
house bordering the River Spey at Boat of Balliefurth, which was refused
by the Cairngorms National Park Authority and refused on appeal; a major
chalet development at Aviemore, impacting an osprey feeding loch and
with an important population of Devil's bit Scabious that BSCG predicted
was likely to support the rare Small Scabious Mining bee. In summer we
confirmed the bee's presence on the site.
BSCG participated in a citizen science project to assess how well the
Biodiversity Policy (Policy 3) in National Planning Framework 4 is being
applied in practice. Members of BSCG attended the launch of the project
report in Holyrood and gave a brief presentation about our case work for
the project. The report identified“continuing cumulative destruction of
nature”. BSCG continued to be actively involved in Scottish Environment
LINK, especially with the Freshwater Group, Wildlife Group and Planning
Group.
Members undertook recording of riverflies, especially of the endemic
Northern February Red stonefly on the River Spey, as well as wildlife
recording at sites threatened with development, including at Nethybrige.
BSCG joined Plantlife's informal group Saving Special Grasslands project,
and recorded grassland fungi and flowers such as field gentian.
We responded to a consultation in the Cairngorms National Park on fire
byelaws; and also provided comments on the Cairngorms Capercaillie
Emergency Plan. We commented on the Forest Standard Certification
Audit at Glenmore Forest and affected positive change regarding
management of waste materials.|
|**Financial review**||
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|**Brief statement of the charity’s policy**
**on reserves**
**Details of any deficit**
**Donated facilities and services (if any)**||
||The Grou holds General reserves and this enables the Grou|
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to be flexible and in a position to respond to relevant
environmental and conservation projects, issues and
opportunities as they arise.|
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## **Other optional information**
## **Declaration**
**The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees Signature(s)** _**OSCR will accept digital or typed**_ Augustine M Jones _**signatures**_ **Full name(s)** Augustine mark Jones **Position (e.g. Chair)** Convener **Date** 26 June 2025
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