OSCR Scottish charity profile

The Friends of the Italian Chapel SCIO

ActiveCharity number SC022229
Registered1 January 1902
Main locationOrkney Islands
Legal formSCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC022229
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
A specific local point, community or neighbourhood
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
KW16 3LB
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OSCR note: Previous name - Italian Chapel Preservation Committee SCIO from 01/01/1992 to 11/10/2023. The SCIO was incorporated on the 01 September 2015 as a result of a Change to SCIO application by Italian Chapel Preservation Committee SCO22229 which was an Unincorporated Association registered as a charity from 01 Jan 1992.

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

We help to preserve and maintain the Italian Chapel building. assist the landowner to ensure the chapel is maintained and available for people to visit and worship in it. promote education about the history of the chapel. sustain links with the communities in Italy where the POWs came from.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of religion
  • the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science

Beneficiaries

  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations

Constitutional objectives

4 The organisation’s purposes are: 4.1 To preserve the fabric of the Italian Chapel on the island of Lambholm, Orkney as far as this can be done and to support such repairs to the building as are deemed necessary, and in the public interest. 4.2 To support the provision of the said Chapel, which has been canonically consecrated for Catholic worship, may be available by reasonable prior appointment, for services, weddings, baptisms, etc. 4.3 To support the provision of said Chapel’s availability to other denominations to a reasonable and generous extent. and 4.4 To provide for the advancement of heritage, culture or the Catholic faith, and without prejudice to the foregoing generality, to provide grants, funding or scholarships in the furtherance of cultural and religious links with Italy and the town of Moena, with particular reference to wartime Italy.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
30 September 2025£31,024£15,088025 January 2026
30 September 2024£40,761£17,91006 August 2025
30 September 2023£46,426£21,03808 August 2024
30 September 2022£41,193£22,63405 March 2023
30 September 2021£28,703£10,325018 August 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
Farahowe, Stenness, Orkney
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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