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About the Trust
Stratherrick & Foyers Community Trust (SFCT) is a not-for-profit community company established in 2004 by the Stratherrick and Foyers Community Council to receive and distribute ‘community benefit’ funds received from Energy companies (e.g. Wind Farm and Hydro scheme firms) operating in our geographical area. The aim of the Trust is to help ensure the environmental protection, wellbeing and economic sustainability of all parts of the community area that may be affected by any “Green Energy” developments. The purpose of the Trust is to make life in the Stratherrick & Foyers healthier and happier.
There are ten Non-Executive Directors on the Board and to get to know them better here is an introduction. The Trust employs a Finance Officer, a bookkeeper, an administrator, comms; fundraisers, a project co-ordinator as well as a handyman and a cleaner.
Our Vision Statement
“We will act to enhance the quality of lives of people by engaging with the issues that matter to the community and by supporting people, at a sustainable level (i.e. with finance, personal time, specific knowledge etc.) to help people make things happen.”
We are guided by our ‘Articles of Association’ which include our Vision, both of which determine what we do and how we behave:
- To prevent or relieve poverty
- To advance education, training and/or retraining
- To advance heritage
- To advance environmental protection and improvement
- To advance citizenship and/or community development
- To advance the provision of recreational facilities
We are also listed at Companies House and abide by all relevant company legislation including producing annual accounts and sound financial planning and control. These documents can be found here.
An important development in the life of the Trust was the formulation of a Community Action Plan and then later the first Local Place Plan ratified by Highland Council.
The Trust currently supports the community through the provision of meeting and gathering places; community facilities; educational grants; grant support to enable social care provision in the area; sporting grants and community events such as our Highland Gathering.