OSCR Scottish charity profile

Bressay Under-Fives Group

Known as Bressay Under-Fives Playgroup

Not SubmittedCharity number SC017018
Registered16 November 1981
Main locationShetland Islands
Legal formUnincorporated association

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC017018
Status
Not Submitted
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
A specific local point, community or neighbourhood
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
ZE2 9EP

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Playgroup set up in the community of Bressay, Shetland. Open to all parents/grandparents/carers with children preschool aged. Social event to alleviate postnatal loneliness. Building a support network for parents. Allowing children to socialise.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • 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
  • any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

Aims and Objects:- To provide in the interests of social welfare a good environment for babies and children up to the age for five by providing mothers of such children means of alleviation of stress by mutual support where such support is not readily available from within the community and by providing play facilities for the children in which the mothers can participate as will improve the physical and intellectual development of the children and strengthen the relationship between mother and child, and generally to act in accordance with and in furtherance of the aims of the Scottish Pre-School Association.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£2,484£5620Not supplied
31 March 2024£690£626011 December 2024
31 March 2023£596£82507 April 2023
31 March 2022£1,523£34606 January 2023
31 March 2021£464£90020 November 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
Da Mills, Bressay, Shetland
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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