OSCR Scottish charity profile

Sound Community Association

ActiveCharity number SC001775
Registered25 July 1972
Main locationShetland Islands
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC001775
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Wider, but within one local authority area
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
4
Postcode
ZE1 0RH

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Sound Community Association maintains and manages Sound Public Hall in order to provide facilities to benefit the local community. This is achieved by hire of the hall to members of the community for life events, and fund raising activities organised by the association.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of health
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
  • the advancement of public participation in sport
  • the advancement of environmental protection or improvement

Beneficiaries

  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Activities

  • It does none of these

Constitutional objectives

(i) To promote the benefit of the inhabitants of Sound, Lerwick, Shetland without distinction of sex or of political, religious or other opinions, by associating the local and statutory authorities, voluntary organisations and inhabitants in a common effort to advance education and to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and other leisure time occupations with the object of inproving the conditions of life for the said inhabitants . (ii) To secure the establishment, maintenance and management of a community hall for activities promoted by the Company in furtherance of the above objects or any of them. Where the said community hall is provided or grant aided by the local authority to co-operate with that authority in the maintenance and managment of the community hall, for activities in furtherance of the above objects or any of them. The Company shall be non party in politics and non sectarian in religion.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 August 2025£62,245£61,938429 May 2026
31 August 2024£54,339£65,174421 May 2025
31 August 2023£49,644£56,634421 November 2023
31 August 2022£31,841£43,866427 April 2023
31 August 2021£22,830£17,626410 February 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
33 Kantersted Road, Lerwick, Shetland
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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