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Highlands and Islands Environment Foundation

Country
Scotland
Charity number
SC043026
Status
Active
Registered
March 22, 2012
Legal form
SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

Address

Address
Kinlochaline
Morvern
Oban
PA80 5UZ

Activities

'It carries out activities or services itself'

'the advancement of education','the advancement of environmental protection or improvement'

The Highlands & Islands Environment Foundation (HIEF) aims to protect and restore the natural beauty, biodiversity and eco-systems of the highlands and islands of Scotland for the benefit of all by working with grassroots organisations and local communities to support projects in freshwater, marine and coastal, forest and woodland and montane habitats as appropriate. Collating, and thus maximising, philanthropic funds from people and organisations with a passion for the area, HIEF awards grants and provides additional support, if required, to test and develop solutions which identify best practice and can be replicated to create systemic change for sustained positive environmental impact.

Beneficiaries: 'Children or young people','No specific group, or for the benefit of the community'

Objectives: ‘The organisation’s purposes are: To advance environmental protection and improvement, through the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment within Scotland, in particular but not exclusively by monitoring and protecting natural habitats and biodiversity, in the land and in the sea and establishing marine protected areas. and To advance education, with a particular focus on education relating to conserving, protecting and improving the physical and natural environment of Scotland through the dissemination of information about conservation, protection and improvement activities including waste, water and energy usage’

Geography

Main operating location
Glasgow City
Geographical spread
More than one local authority area in Scotland

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure Employees
Dec. 31, 2024 £276,344 £268,603 2
Dec. 31, 2023 £224,190 £233,920 1
Dec. 31, 2022 £119,433 £192,089 1
Dec. 31, 2021 £230,521 £153,497 1
Dec. 31, 2020 £119,499 £59,045 1