OSCR Scottish charity profile

Shetland Aid Trust

ActiveCharity number SC020834
Registered8 September 1992
Main locationShetland Islands
Legal formTrust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC020834
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
UK and overseas
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
ZE1 0RN

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

We receive good quality clothing and other donated goods from folk from all over Shetland. Volunteers work in our huge storage unit ('the Shed') in Lerwick to sort these donations into male and and to load these in labelled bags into our trailer that is based at the Shed. The trailer takes these clothes and other donated goods to be distributed by Blythswood. Other clothing and donated goods are sold in our pop-up shops held in Lerwick two or three times per year. These gifts, and money the shops make, provide us with funds we are able to give to charities which do so much good work on our behalf. We also support the Blythswood charity Shoebox campaign each year and we give financial support to the Hiding Place Orphanage and financial help to several charities doing excellent work in Ukraine and other areas as we become aware of these needy situations

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of religion
  • the advancement of health
  • the advancement of public participation in sport
  • the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people
  • Older People
  • People with disabilities or health problems
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations

Constitutional objectives

The objects for which the Trust is established are to make grants or loans, with or without interest, out of the income or capital of the Trust fund for any purposes which, in the sole opinion of the Trustees, are for the relief of suffering, the provision of material and medical aid he furtherance of education and the provision of Bibles and Christian Literature to individuals. vOrganisations and communities in Albania or elsewhere and other activities assisting in the furtherance of the foregoing objectives. Provided that any such grant or loan is for a purpose charitable in law, for which purposes, and without prejudice to the generality of the Trustees' powers to do everything they may consider necessary or expedient in the attainment of the foregoing Objects

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 August 2025£35,706£27,716018 May 2026
31 August 2024£44,003£37,360028 May 2025
31 August 2023£32,759£36,825027 May 2024
31 August 2022£28,307£33,127015 March 2023
31 August 2021£23,432£37,270025 May 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
Seafield House, Lower Sound, Lerwick
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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