Ballater Community TrustRegistered

To provide within the Community (Ballater, Crathie and Dinnet) recreational facilities, or organise recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended. To advance environmental protection and improvement in the Community (Ballater, Crathie and Dinnet) through the provision, maintenance, and/or improvement of public open space, other public amenities and other environmental and regeneration projects (subject to the appropriate safeguards to ensure that the public benefits so arising clearly outweigh any private benefit thereby conferred on private landowners). To advance the arts and culture of the Community (Ballater, Crathie and Dinnet). To advance education and in particular to promote opportunities for learning, training and skills development for the benefit of the residents of the Community (Ballater, Crathie and Dinnet), particularly for young people and the unemployed, and with particular reference to skills which will assist the participants in obtaining paid employment within the Community. To promote social inclusion among the residents of the Community (Ballater, Crathie and Dinnet) . To advance citizenship and/or community development (including promotion of civic responsibility and the promotion of the voluntary sector and/or the effectiveness or efficiency of charities). To promote, establish, operate and/or support other similar schemes and projects of acharitable nature for the benefit of the Community (Ballater, Crathie and Dinnet).