OSCR Scottish charity profile

Lerwick Brass Band

ActiveCharity number SC010471
Registered21 November 1983
Main locationShetland Islands
Legal formUnincorporated association

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC010471
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
ZE1 0DB

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Lerwick Brass Band provides services to the community by providing music at local events when requested to do so by local organisations. We welcomes school-aged members, who benefit from playing in an adult band.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science

Beneficiaries

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

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

(a) To provide or assist in the provision of concerts, recitals and other appearances in public, and for the benefit, enjoyment and education of the public, of the Band or other bands, societies or groups whose aims and objects are the presentation and stimulation for the benefit of the public of the art of Brass Band and Brass Instrument Playing. (b) To provide or assist in the provision of the education of musicians by means of the practical experience of working with, playing with or receiving tuition from the Band or any of the members thereof for the time being. (c) After a reasonable reserve for the continuing and future purposes of the Band has been made, to donate the free proceeds of any performances of the Band to such organisations charitable in law as the members in General Meeting shall determine. To do all other things which are lawful to promote the foregoing objects.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 December 2025£2,306£2,620015 August 2026
31 December 2024£4,487£3,142028 June 2025
31 December 2023£2,189£2,26502 September 2024
31 December 2022£168£1,645029 August 2023
31 December 2021£2,434£2,678028 July 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
66 Breiwick 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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