01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- 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
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 August 2025 | £62,245 | £61,938 | 4 | 29 May 2026 |
| 31 August 2024 | £54,339 | £65,174 | 4 | 21 May 2025 |
| 31 August 2023 | £49,644 | £56,634 | 4 | 21 November 2023 |
| 31 August 2022 | £31,841 | £43,866 | 4 | 27 April 2023 |
| 31 August 2021 | £22,830 | £17,626 | 4 | 10 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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