OSCR Scottish charity profile

Shetland Recreational Trust

ActiveCharity number SC002179
Registered27 April 1982
Main locationShetland Islands
Legal formTrust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC002179
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Wider, but within one local authority area
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
168
Postcode
ZE1 0PJ

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

We are a leisure trust providing facilities and services to the community of Shetland. We have 8 leisure facilities across the mainland and three main islands of Shetland, providing swimming pools, gyms, courts, pitches, all weather facilities etc. We offer a very good value membership option for individuals and households.

Charitable purposes

  • any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people
  • Older People
  • People with disabilities or health problems
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

The objects for which the Trust is established are to provide, or assist in the provision of, facilities in the interest of social welfare for recreation and leisure time occupation with the object of improving the condition of 1ife for the inhabitants of the Shetland Islands and in particular to secure the establishment, maintenance and management of a Recreational Centre at Clickimin, Shetland for activities in furtherance of the foregoing objects and the Trustees shall hold the Trust Fund at their sole discretion to make grants, loans or payments out of the income or capital of the Trust Fund for these objects or any of them or for such other purpose or purposes charitable in law solely for the benefit of the Shetland Islands or of the inhabitants of those Islands as the Trustees shall from time to time determine.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£7,279,758£7,502,6121686 November 2025
31 March 2024£6,412,605£6,676,8921681 October 2024
31 March 2023£5,858,321£8,207,75816812 December 2023
31 March 2022£5,956,087£7,252,40416812 December 2022
31 March 2021£5,038,490£5,937,5591688 October 2021

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
Clickimin Leisure Complex, Lochside, Lerwick, Shetland
Website supplied to OSCR
www.srt.org.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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