# Dunfermline Greenspace

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC052367
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
- **Registered:** March 1, 2023
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC052367


## Contact

- **Address:** The Caretaker&#x27;s Flat, Baldridgeburn Community Centre, Baldridgeburn, Dunfermline
- **Postcode:** KY12 9EH
- **Website:** www.dunfermlinegreenspace.org



## Activities

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

**Purposes:** &#x27;the advancement of education&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of citizenship or community development&#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;,&#x27;the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage&#x27;

**What the charity does:** Dunfermline Greenspace SCIO is a community owned membership-based organisation established in 2023 to support local groups and projects to deliver the Dunfermline Greenspace 2030 strategy. Our vision is to enable Dunfermline to be welcoming, imaginative, and well connected with a first class natural and cultural environment. Our 2030 strategy will deliver a happier, healthier, greener and more equal Dunfermline. We will strive to give everyone the opportunity to get involved and benefit from our work. This will better equip our communities to tackle the climate, nature, biodiversity and health emergencies we all face. Most importantly, our strategy is rooted in the everyday efforts of the local people and groups working to make Dunfermline a better place. Our mission is to act as an umbrella organisation which recognises and supports volunteer and community groups who look after the environment in Dunfermline.

**Objectives:** The organisation has been formed to benefit the community of the City of Dunfermline and the organisation?s purposes are: (a) To preserve, restore and improve the environment through 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). (b) To promote and protect the wellbeing and physical 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. (c) To provide in the interests of social welfare, facilities within the Community for recreation and other leisure time occupation available to the public at large. (d) To advance education and in particular to promote opportunities for learning for the benefit of the general public. (e) To promote training, particularly among residents of the Community, and with particular reference to skills which will assist the participants in obtaining paid employment. (f) To advance community development by encouraging, stimulating and supporting volunteering principally in the Community (g) To promote, establish, operate and/or support other projects of a charitable nature for the benefit of the residents of the Community.





## Areas of operation

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






