OSCR Scottish charity profile

Gatliff Hebridean Hostels Trust

ActiveCharity number SC013660
Registered5 July 1988
Main locationWestern Isles
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
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 is dedicated to running Berneray, Howmore and Rhenigidale hostels, in partnership with islanders, to a sound basic standard. Its goal is to provide hostellers, including young people of limited means, with the opportunity to stay a while to get to know, & maybe come to love, the unique culture & natural environment of the islands. (We are proud to be part of the Hostelling Scotland family.) The Gatliff Hebridean Hostels Trust was founded in 1988.

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

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 December 2024£368,946£113,171023 August 2025
31 December 2023£70,694£70,81609 September 2024
31 December 2022£46,422£84,73807 August 2023
31 December 2021£97,244£71,675029 July 2022
31 December 2020£81,553£90,691014 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
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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