# Bat&#x27;s Wood Growing Space &amp; Bike Track (SCIO)

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC049338
- **Known as:** Bat&#x27;s Wood
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
- **Registered:** May 29, 2019
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC049338


## Contact

- **Address:** 111 Lady Nairn Avenue, Kirkcaldy, Fife
- **Postcode:** KY1 2AT
- **Website:** www.batswood.org.uk



## Activities

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

**Purposes:** &#x27;the advancement of education&#x27;,&#x27;the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of environmental protection or improvement&#x27;

**What the charity does:** The purposes of Bat’s Wood SCIO are to advance environmental protection, education, and community development by creating and maintaining woodland and outdoor learning spaces in Levenmouth. During 2024/25, our main activities included: The Willow Worlds community research and planting project. Educational collaborations with local schools and volunteers. Film-based environmental storytelling (“Levenmouth: A Climate Beacon?”). Biodiversity improvements through soil enrichment and sustainable planting.

**Objectives:** 4.1 The provision of, or organisation of, recreational facilities with the object of improving conditions of live for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended by providing a mountain bike track open to all and free to use. 4.2. The protection and improvement of the local environment by developing and maintaining the wood and growing space, developing an orchard and providing environmental education including in the practice of permaculture. 4.3 To advance the education of young people by providing construction work skills and work placements. 5. In furtherance of these purposes, the charity seeks to. 5.1. Establish or to secure the establishment of an outdoor cycling track and to maintain and manage, or to co-operate with any local statutory authority or authorities in the maintenance and management of such a track for activities promoted by the trustees and its constituent bodies in the furtherance of the above objects or any of them





## Areas of operation

- **Main operating location:** Fife
- **Geographical spread:** A specific local point, community or neighbourhood






