OSCR Scottish charity profile

Lewis & Harris Youth Clubs Association

ActiveCharity number SC016425
Registered4 November 1945
Main locationWestern Isles
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC016425
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Wider, but within one local authority area
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
2
Postcode
HS3 3AB

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The charity acts as a support network for youth clubs throughout the Lewis and Harris area by disseminating information from Youth Scotland to all club contacts and helping with enquiries. The charity also operates and manages the outdoor centre at Scaladale, Isle of Harris. provides residential accommodation and activities for groups from the islands, and from other parts of Scotland. and helps deliver club sessions for both new and well-established clubs.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of health

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

The purpose and objects of the Company are to promote the benefit of young people in the Lewis & Harris area by associating the local and statutory authorities, voluntary organisations and inhabitants in a common effort to advance education and to provide or promote the provision of facilities, in the interests of social welfare, for recreation and other leisure time occupation thereby improving the conditions of life of the aforementioned young people and developing their physical, mental and spiritual capacities so that they may grow to full maturity as individuals and memors of society and for this purpose: (1) unite all youth clubs active with Lewis and Harris thrgouh membership of the Company (a youth club for the purposes hereof being defined as a non-uniformed organisation in which youngsters of an area meet for various recreation and leisure activities including activities other than sport). (ii) assist with the formation of new youth clubs in Lewis and Harris (iii) represent members' interests in dealing with central goverment departments, local authorities, voluntary organisations and other bodies. (iv) do any other lawful things to promote the aim of the Company. (v) raise and hold funds towards the furterance of the foregoing object.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 May 2025£81,898£101,990229 May 2026
31 May 2024£57,805£69,791230 May 2025
31 May 2023£69,736£127,031227 May 2024
31 May 2022£113,301£130,54624 March 2023
31 May 2021£114,553£96,55621 June 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
Scaladale Centre, Ardvourlie, Isle of Harris
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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