OSCR Scottish charity profile

Isle Of Skye Pipe Band

ActiveCharity number SC000953
Registered24 November 1986
Main locationHighland
Legal formUnincorporated association

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC000953
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Wider, but within one local authority area
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
IV51 9ES

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

We are here to promote the playing of bagpipes and drums while encouraging youngsters to learn. With this, we build confidence, team work, dedication and committment within them.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people
  • Older People

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

(1) To further the study and exposition of piping and drumming, pipe-band music and the traditions of piobaireachd, ceol-mor, ceolbeag and all forms of the music of the Highland bagpipes, by the practice, performance and promotion of such music in the Island of Skye and elsewhere. (2) To advance the education of the local community in Skye, by providing and contributing to suitable educational facilities for the learning, practice, interpretation and production of pipe-band music and the music of the Highland bagpipes in all its forms. (3) To foster and encourage participation in piping events and other musical and cultural festivals by members of the local community of Skye. (4) To apply such funds, both capital and income, as may become available to the Band from time to time, in the furtherance of the foregoing objects and for such other purposes consonant therewith, as shall be deemed by law to be charitable.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
30 September 2025£9,763£5,24507 June 2026
30 September 2024£11,176£6,25307 June 2026
30 September 2023£50,315£36,08106 June 2024
30 September 2022£7,636£7,113011 April 2023
30 September 2021£1,000£1,08906 June 2022

Figures are those reported by the charity and supplied in the OSCR bulk download. Blank facts remain distinct from zero.

04 Contact record

Principal office or trustees address

Address supplied to OSCR
Fasgadh, Viewfield Road, Portree
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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