OSCR Scottish charity profile

Soroba Community Enterprise Limited

ActiveCharity number SC037361
Registered22 June 2006
Main locationArgyll And Bute
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC037361
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
A specific local point, community or neighbourhood
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
PA34 4JR

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

One of the principal future objectives of the company is to facilitate the building of a new community centre for the Soroba area. Land has been earmarked by Argyll and Bute Council for this project for which a feasibility study has been carried out, however, the company is facing great difficulties in raising finance for the project. As funding for a community centre is unlikely to become available in the short to medium term the company has switched its focus to more achievable projects in the short term with a view to providing support local community groups.

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of education
  • 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
  • any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes

Beneficiaries

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

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

To relieve poverty among the inhabitants of the Sorboa area of Oban in particular and the residents of Oban in general To relieve unemployment in such ways as may be sought fit, including assistance to find meaningful employment and thereby increase confidence and job skills To advance the education, training or retraining particularly among unemployed people, by the provision of facilities for learning and training. To promote the benefit of the inhabitants of Soroba and its environs without distinction of sex, sexuality, political, religious or other opinions, by associating the local authorities, voluntary organisations and inhabitants in a common effort to advance education and to provide facilities, in the interest in social welfare for recreation and other leisure time occupation so that their conditions of life may be improved, particularly those who have need of such facilities by reason of their age, infirmity, or disability, poverty or social and economic circumstances

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 January 2025£2,268£4,773030 October 2025
31 January 2024£9,155£5,270031 October 2024
31 January 2023£2,147£5,140027 October 2023
31 January 2022£2,720£3,392024 October 2022
31 January 2021£2,701£3,38906 October 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
7 Orchy Gardens
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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