# The Isle of Kerrera Development Trust

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC040372
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)
- **Registered:** March 18, 2009
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC040372


## Contact

- **Address:** Slaterich farm, Kerrera, Oban, Argyll, Isle of Kerrera Development Trust
- **Postcode:** PA34 4SX
- **Website:** www.isleofkerrera.org



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the prevention or relief of poverty&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of education&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of health&#x27;

**What the charity does:** Our vision is to address the challenges of island life, while ensuring we maintain and protect what is special about our island home. The Isle of Kerrera is a rugged wee gem of an island, lying just a few minutes ferry ride off the coast of Oban. The Isle of Kerrera Development Trust (IKDT) grew out of the Isle of Kerrera Residents Association (IKRA). The IKDT was registered as a charity in March 2009 and is also a Company Limited by Guarantee. The aim of the IKDT is to represent local people, and to initiate and develop projects that will benefit the island, both the local community and its visitors.

**Beneficiaries:** &#x27;Children or young people&#x27;,&#x27;People with disabilities or health problems&#x27;,&#x27;No specific group, or for the benefit of the community&#x27;

**Objectives:** The company has been formed to benefit the communities of the Isle of Kerrera and of all associated small islands in its immediate vicinity, which comprise the post code unit PA34 4SX (&#x27;the Community&#x27;) with the following objects:- (1) To promote, for the public benefit, rural regeneration within the Community. (2) To advance environmental protection and/or improvement within the Community and in particular through:-  (A) the provision, maintenance and/or improvement of public open space and other public amenities and other environmental and regeneration projects (but subject to appropriate safeguards to ensure that the public benefits so arising clearly outweigh any private benefit thereby conferred on private landowners). and  (B) encouraging the more efficient use of the world&#x27;s resources, and in particular greater use of renewable energy sources so as  (i) to minimise the proliferation of mines, wells and other extraction facilities which degrade the natural environment and (ii) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and thus avoid the damage to the natural environment caused by global warming. (3) To advance heritage through preserving, for the benefit of the general public, the historical, architectural and constructional heritage that may exist in and around the Community in buildings (including any structure or erection and any part of a building as so defined) of particular beauty or historical, architectural or constructional interest. To provide recreational facilities or to organise recreational activities, within the Community, with such facilities/activities being available to members of the public at large with the object of improving their conditions of life. To advance the health of the residents of the Community and to assist in the relief of ill health and the provision of health education for such residents. To advance education among residents of the Community. To relieve unemployment, particularly among residents of the Community, includin





## Geography

- **Main operating location:** Argyll And Bute
- **Geographical spread:** Wider, but within one local authority area







