01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC013660
- 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
- HS1 2JF
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
The Gatliff Hebridean Hostels Trust provides small, simple, self-catering youth hostels to a comfortable standard in the Outer Hebrides to encourage all, but especially younger people of limited means, to explore the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. We cater for individual non-motorised travellers, walkers, cyclists, those in canoes and kayaks and on horse-back in groups of less than four.
Charitable purposes
- the advancement of education
- the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended
- the advancement of environmental protection or improvement
Beneficiaries
- Children or young people
- Other defined groups
Activities
- It carries out activities or services itself
Constitutional objectives
The objects for which the Company is established are:- a) to help all, especially young persons of limited means, to a greater knowledge and love of and respect for the Isles, particularly by providing or encouraging the provision of simple accommodation for use in their travels within the Isles. b) to acquire buildings and land as simple accommodation within the Isles and to maintain the same and to allow all, especially young people of limited means admittance to the same at such times and upon such conditions as the directors do from time to time decide, such accommodation to be used principally for holiday, educational or connected purposes. c) to foster the conservation and understanding of the natural, vernacular and historic scenery, habitat, flora, fauna, buildings, monuments, culture, language and heritage of the Isles and their inhabitants. and d) to encourage (to such extent and in such manner as may be charitable) the improvement of the economic and social welfare of the inhabitants of the Isles and the improvement of communications and other facilities within, over and to the Isles.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Total income | Donations | Charitable activities income | Trading income | Investment income | Other income | Total expenditure | Raising funds | Charitable activities spending | Other spending | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 December 2025 | £108,946 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £82,857 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 11 September 2026 |
| 31 December 2024 | £368,946 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £113,171 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 23 August 2025 |
| 31 December 2023 | £70,694 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £70,816 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 9 September 2024 |
| 31 December 2022 | £46,422 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £84,738 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 7 August 2023 |
| 31 December 2021 | £97,244 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £71,675 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 29 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
- 26 Lewis Street, STORNOWAY, Isle of Lewis
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.gatliff.org.uk
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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