OSCR Scottish charity profile

Banchory Heritage Society

ActiveCharity number SC022031
Registered12 April 1993
Main locationAberdeenshire
Legal formUnincorporated association

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC022031
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Wider, but within one local authority area
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
AB31 5TP

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Promote the Heritage of Banchory and surrounds

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 environmental protection or improvement

Beneficiaries

  • Children or young people
  • Older People
  • Other defined groups
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

The objects of the Society shall be to promote and encourage interest in, and care of, the history, beauty and character of the area of Banchory and its surroundings and, in particular, by charitable means and not otherwise: (a) To promote public interest in and awareness of matters of local history, objects or records of local historical interest and buildings, structures and earthworks of local historical interest. (b) To monitor the wellbeing of historical records, artefacts, buildings, monuments and earthworks and to monitor and encourage the satisfactory statutory or informal protection of these. (c) To encourage, promote and create information archives and collections of items of local historical interest.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2026£0£00Not supplied
31 March 2025£755£39003 July 2025
31 March 2024£899£781015 July 2024
31 March 2023£474£46801 June 2023
31 March 2022£635£85508 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
Ashley Cottage, Schoolhill, Banchory, Kincardineshire
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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