OSCR Scottish charity profile

Scottish Football Association Museum Trust

Known as The Scottish Football Association Museum Trust

ActiveCharity number SC022796
Registered27 July 1994
Main locationGlasgow City
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC022796
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Operations cover all or most of Scotland
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
19
Postcode
G42 9BA

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

We are an educational and health charity. Our main activities are curatorial where we look after and manage our collection, Visitor Attraction where we exhibit our collection and our Football Memeories Project where we use reminiscence therapy to provide relief for people with dementia and people who are socially isolated.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of health
  • 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
  • the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Beneficiaries

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

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

The company's objects are:- 4.1 To advance and promote the education of the general public, without distinction of sex or of political, religious or other opinions, by the establishment, maintenance and development of a museum for the sport of football to be called The Scottish Football Association Museum, which the company intends to achieve by means of: - 4.1.1 bringing together, holding, adequately housing, conserving, and documenting a Collection of specimens being of historical, artistic or scientific importance. 4.1.2 stimulating public interest in the Museum as a focal point of education and of historic, artistic or scientific interest thereby improving the facilities available for general public amenity and education. 4.1.3 displaying and publicising the Collection for the public benefit. permitting access to research workers and school children, always providing that the safety and security of the Collection are not thereby endangered. permitting with similar safeguards the loan of any Specimen for exhibition or research. 4.1.4 promoting and assisting in the collating and recording of historical, or other related information appropriate to the purpose of the Museum as set out in article 4.1 hereof. 4.1.5 adopting a written Collecting Policy and reviewing it at least every five years, which policy shall define the types of Specimens which the company wishes to include in the Collection and the geographical area from which such Specimens may be drawn. 4.1.6 maintaining an accurate and current Register of all Specimens acquired for, or removed from, the Collection. 4.2 To advance health with the object of improving the conditions of life for individuals with dementia and related conditions by delivering projects and/or schemes including reminiscence projects. 4.3 To provide recreational facilities to individuals with dementia and related conditions and their carers with the object of improving their conditions of life. 4.4 To relieve those in need by reason of their having dementia and related conditions through the delivery of reminiscence and other similar projects. Maximum text reached, further full information can be obtained directly from the Charity.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 December 2024£603,219£606,5941930 June 2025
31 December 2023£646,659£644,8881911 September 2024
31 December 2022£512,080£530,1781927 September 2023
31 December 2021£450,177£449,5381920 September 2022
31 December 2020£463,704£436,2411929 September 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
Hampden Park, Glasgow
Website supplied to OSCR
www.scottishfootballmuseum.org.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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