OSCR Scottish charity profile

Inverness Fiddlers Society

ActiveCharity number SC015759
Registered15 May 1990
Main locationHighland
Legal formUnincorporated association

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC015759
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Wider, but within one local authority area
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
PH24 3BX

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

We provide a donation to the Ness Bank Church for the use of their facilities to practice. We undertake concerts both free of charge and paid to entertain and to advance the education of the public in the art of traditional Scottish music. We promote the study and practice of traditional music by holding our practice sessions which are open to anyone who wishes to become a member

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
  • any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes

Beneficiaries

  • Other defined groups

Activities

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

Constitutional objectives

to advance the education of the public in the art of traidtional Scottish msuic and the music of kindred cultures and in furtherance therof:- 1.1 to promote the study, practice and development of such muisc. 1.2 to provide facilities for the performance of the music in public and in private by fiddles and compatible instruments. 1.3 to organise and support concerts, competitions, events, recordings, publications and research involving or relating to the music. 1.4 to do all things necessary or conducive to the furtherance of the foregoing objects.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£15,072£7,626030 June 2025
31 March 2024£6,366£5,440011 June 2024
31 March 2023£6,528£6,288011 June 2023
31 March 2022£922£1,70202 December 2022
31 March 2021£390£507029 December 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
Lynchurn Cottage, Drumuillie, Boat of Garten
Website supplied to OSCR
www.invernessfiddlers.org
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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