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Rhet Ayrshire & Arran Countryside Initiative

Country
Scotland
Charity number
SC035390
Status
Active
Registered
March 9, 2004
Legal form
Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)
Part of
Royal Highland Education Trust (SC007492)

Address

Address
17 George Young Drive
Darvel
Ayrshire
KA17 0LG

Activities

'It carries out activities or services itself'

'the advancement of education'

We are set up to ensure that children know where their food comes from all the way from Field to Fork. Our coordinator arranges visits to schools and provides volunteer speakers and demonstrations. We host Food and Farming days both on farms and at other suitable venues where pupils and teachers can come and experience a real situation eg, cows being milked, crops harvested, sheep shearing, safety in the countryside etc. In order to raise funds we rely on donations and we visit Agricultural Shows through out the summer to raise awareness of our charity work. We also hold a few fund raising events during the year, all relying on volunteers giving up there free time to help.

Objectives: To advance public education by (i) promotion and encouragement of the dissemination of information concerning Scottish wildlife, agriculture, forestry, rural industries and the countryside (ii) increasing the general public’s awareness of their symbiosis with biological diversity, rural environment, countryside life and economy of Scotland (iii) improving the general public’s understanding of the policies and actions necessary to sustain long-term food and timber production, and provision for wildlife and its inhabitants and (iv) by carrying out and developing at a local level the activities of the charitable body with which the company is and shall (subject as aftermentioned) remain affiliated, namely, The Royal Highland Education Trust (a company limited by guarantee, incorporated in Scotland with registered number 123813, and being Scottish charity number SC007492, hereinafter referred to as 'RHET'). the operations of the Company to be confined to designated geographical area known generally as RHET Ayrshire & Arran Countryside Initiative area, being the present local authority areas of North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire and East Ayrshire.

Areas of operation

Main operating location
North Ayrshire
Geographical spread
More than one local authority area in Scotland

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure
March 31, 2025 £6,856 £4,582
March 31, 2024 £2,685 £2,923
March 31, 2023 £3,458 £3,072
March 31, 2022 £2,930 £3,193
March 31, 2021 £2,857 £1,861