01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC015703
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- A specific local point, community or neighbourhood
- Volunteers
- 1-50 volunteers
- Staff
- 0
- Postcode
- ZE2 9HA
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
We provide a community facility for hire for the Cunningsburgh and wider community throughout Shetland. A range of activities are held within the community hall. We also host our own fundraising activities within the hall.
Charitable purposes
- the advancement of education
- 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 carries out activities or services itself
Constitutional objectives
The objects of the Trust shall be varied to the extent that the Trust is established for such purposes as are exclusively charitable in law (as defined by section 505 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 or any subsequent re-enactment thereof) and in particular but not exclusively the following: to promote the benefit of the inhabitants of Cunningsburgh and its environs without distinction of sex, sexuality, political, religious or other opinions by associating the local statutory authorities, voluntary organisations and inhabitants in a common effort to advance education and to provide facilities, or assist in the provision of facilities, in the interest of social welfare for recreation and other leisure-time occupation so that their conditions of life may be improved. 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 as the Trustees shall from time to time determine: Declaring that such grants or loans may be made on such terms and subject to such conditions as the Trustees may think fit and in the case of loans with or without security and upon such terms as to interest, if any, and repayment as the Trustees in their sole discretion think proper. Declaring further that no act of the Trustees shall be deemed to be ultra vires by reason only that persons who are not inhabitants of the District of Cunningsburgh may or will benefit indirectly by such act. VHIRD) SURPLUS INCOME Any income of the Trust Fund not expended in any year up to the twenty-first anniversary of the final date of signing of these presents may at the discretion of the Trustees be accumulated as the Trustees may determine but with power to resort thereto in future years.
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 | £79,689 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £73,031 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 31 July 2026 |
| 31 December 2024 | £80,253 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £88,604 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 9 June 2025 |
| 31 December 2023 | £44,933 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £15,427 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 4 December 2024 |
| 31 December 2022 | £29,335 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £33,280 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 1 November 2023 |
| 31 December 2021 | £42,933 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £22,853 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 0 | 15 September 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
- Ocraquoy, Cunningsburgh, Shetland
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.cunningsburghhall.com
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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