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The Trust - About Us

At our 125th Jubilee Barbeque on 4 June 2022

BKCT is an OSCR-registered Charity with a board of Trustees.

Chair: Aileen Neilson, Treasurer: Mary Stewart, Secretary & Vice Chair: Alison Irvine

Other Trustees: Sheila McDonald, Rosie Stenhouse, Morag Ballantine, Evelyn Riisenberg

Our Trustees are all volunteers and local residents committed to promoting activities and events based in and around the Burnturk Jubilee Hall and its Community Garden in accordance with our constitution (Trust Deed 2017). The Jubilee Hall is run by a volunteer management committee.

Trustees of Burnturk and Kettlehill Community Trust were last re-elected in 2022.

The Trustees normally hold an AGM in April to which the public are invited. Attendees can make suggestions for the programme of activities.

The Jubilee Hall is the sole facility in our area and functions as a hub for community events and activities. A Putting Green nearby has been running since 1925. Twice-yearly litter picks continue to be arranged; the first was more than 30 years ago. The Community Garden behind the Hall is continually being worked on by local volunteers.

We aim to maintain our facilities and activities so that they are resilient, flexible, affordable and respond to the needs and interests of each generation. As a charity we can access a wider range of funding and increase capacity to generate income needed to run activities.

Having more local events within walking distance helps the sustainability and cohesion of the community. We live and work in a rural environment and many of these leisure activities maintain the local environment and its wildlife.

OSCR - Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (www.oscr.org.uk)

The Trust's charitable purposes are to:

  • Promote community activities and events with the aim of maintaining community cohesion and sustainable rural life in the villages of Coaltown of Burnturk and Kettlehill and their surrounding area.
  • Maintain or develop local facilities that are sustainable and flexible enough to meet the present needs and future aspirations of all generations in the community including those with disabilities.
  • Provide a local venue for meetings and clubs, educational, recreational and social events for all ages and backgrounds.
  • Support local outreach activities that may improve the environment, and provide health promotion, education, recreation, artistic and cultural activities and exercise or sport.
  • Contribute to local resilience, community development and rural regeneration in the villages of Coaltown of Burnturk and Kettlehill and their surrounding area.

These charitable purposes therefore relate to paragraphs a, b, d, e, f, g, h, i, l, m, n in the 2005 Act. (Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005.

Main Activities related to the purposes above:

  • To promote a programme of events and activities of social, recreational, health promotional, cultural or educational nature available to the local community within walking distance of home
  • To own and/or manage community facilities which are affordable and available to all
  • To run facilities as a meeting place and as starting point for outdoor events, environmental, regeneration and other socially beneficial activities.

History

The communities of Coaltown of Burnturk ("Burnturk"), Kettlehill and surrounding hamlets have a long tradition of arranging activities for their residents. These activities attract younger people to bring up their families in this area and older folk to retire and choose to remain here. There are also a number of farms and small local businesses.  The community has continuous owned and run the Jubilee Hall since it was gifted in 1897. The Hall was expanded to take in the building next door in 1966.

Raymond Riisenberg & Gordon Lochhead on Burnturk Village Green, Jubilee Barbecue 2022

Raymond Riisenberg & Gordon Lochhead on Burnturk Village Green, Jubilee Barbecue 2022

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