# Scotland's Finest Woods

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC039099
- **Status:** Active
- **Reporting:** Up to date. Last filed Aug. 30, 2026.
- **Legal form:** Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)
- **Registered:** Dec. 20, 2007
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC039099


## Contact

- **Address:** c/o Confor, 22 LG1 Forth Street, Edinburgh
- **Postcode:** EH1 3LH
- **Website:** www.sfwa.co.uk



## Activities

**Activities:** 'It carries out activities or services itself'

**Purposes:** 'the advancement of education','the advancement of citizenship or community development','the advancement of environmental protection or improvement'

**What the charity does:** The Scotland’s Finest Woods Awards - run by independent charity, Scotland’s Finest Woods - celebrate the contribution that woodlands can make to the people of Scotland and to its environment and economic prosperity. ? The underlying principle of the Awards is that people from across Scotland work hard to support their local communities and the environment, and the Awards provide a way to recognise and reward their achievements and so identify exemplars for others to follow. ? The annual Awards programme was first established in 1985.  Since 2005 the Awards programme has been managed by a charity which operates as a not-for-profit company.  Over time it has expanded to recgonise a wide range of woodland types and initiatives, including schools, new native woods, communitu and commercial woodlands, farm woodlands, climate change and early years projects, and most recently Urban Forestry in 2025.

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

**Objectives:** (a) To promote sustarnable woodlands and therr environs for educational, research, environmental, social and recreatlonal purposes for the benefit of local readents, visitors and the publrc In general, (b) To promote a greater understanding and appreciation of  the envrronrnental, soclal and recreatlonal potential of trees, woods and forests, (c) To promote, encourage and secure the educational value of Scotland's woodlands and its scenlc and historic quaiities lncludlng the provislon of facilities in the Interests of the physical, soclal and cultural welfare of the people of Scotland as a whole.





## Geography

- **Main operating location:** Highland
- **Geographical spread:** Operations cover all or most of Scotland







