The inaugural meeting of the Friends of the Pentlands was held on 29 March 2003. The raison d’être for that meeting was a willingness to take forward two specific objectives stated in the Pentland Hills Regional Park Integrated Management Strategy; viz, the wish to establish “an independent friends group” and the wish “to encourage wider participation by the public”. The first Annual General Meeting was held on 11 May 2004 and the Organisation became a registered Scottish Charity on the same date.
To better meet its longer term aspirations and needs the decision was taken at the Annual General Meeting on 8 May 2012 to apply to the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) to change its legal form to a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO). The application was successful with the SCIO being registered on 18 December 2012.
The Howe, Loganlea Reservoir, Carnethy Turnhouse and Castlelaw from Black Hill