About

Pennan Harbour is a registered Trust port and as such is administered by an appointed Board of Trustees under the terms of The Pennan Harbour Revision Order 2014 – a full copy of which can be obtained at http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2014/158/made.

It is the duty of the Pennan Harbour Trustees to manage, regulate, improve and maintain the harbour and to do all other things which in its opinion are expedient to facilitate the proper carrying on or development of the harbour.

Each member appointed by the Trust shall be a person who appears to the Trust to have the special knowledge, experience or ability appropriate to the efficient, effective and economic discharge by the Trustees of their functions.

Trustee Skills & Experience

In line with the 2014 Harbour Revision Order, appointments to the Board are made with due regard to having a distribution of experience and/or qualification in one or more of the following fields:

(a) management of harbours;
(b) usage of port facilities;
(c) commercial boating activities;
(d) industrial, commercial and financial matters;
(e) administration;
(f) the organisation of employees;
(g) the fishing industry;
(h) financial management;
(i) the laws relating to Scotland;
(j) safety management;
(k) commercial marketing;
(l) environmental matters affecting harbours;
(m) civil engineering;
(n) local government and community interests;
(o) recreational, sporting and leisure activities including without prejudice to the generality, recreational and competitive boating activities; and
(p) any other skills and matters considered from time to time by the Trustees to be relevant to the discharge of them of their functions,

Trustee Meetings are held regularly – minutes of all meetings are available by request.