OSCR Scottish charity profile

Scottish Record Society

ActiveCharity number SC032276
Registered19 October 2001
Main locationCity of Edinburgh
Legal formUnincorporated association

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC032276
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
UK and overseas
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
EH1 3YY

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The Society's role is to improve access to public registers and private muniments relating to Scotland by publishing volumes and calendars of such documents. We aim to publish a volume annually and provide a copy to each member. Publications are available for purchase to the general public. The Society is now making available e-books of volumes which are otherwise out of print.

Charitable purposes

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

Beneficiaries

  • 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: 2.1 to promote the study and advance the knowledge and understanding of the historical records of Scotland by commissioning and editing works of appropriate significance. and 2.2 to publish such texts of original documents and of calendars and indices of public records and private muniments relating to Scotland as are deemed by the Council to be of particular value to historians and genealogists.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 December 2024£5,801£4,200010 September 2025
31 December 2023£7,201£6,98804 September 2024
31 December 2022£6,292£4,829028 September 2023
31 December 2021£5,220£6,777015 September 2022
31 December 2020£4,682£1,075030 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
c/o National Records of Scotland, HM General Register House, 2 Princes Street, Edinburgh
Website supplied to OSCR
http://www.scottishrecordsociety.org.uk/
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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