OSCR Scottish charity profile

Portsoy Community Enterprise

ActiveCharity number SC037542
Registered17 October 2006
Main locationAberdeenshire
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC037542
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
More than one local authority area in Scotland
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
2
Postcode
AB45 2SS

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

To advance education, particularly with regard to the maritime and cultural heritage of the North East of Scotland. To preserve for the benefit of the general public traditional craft skills, and particularly those associated with sailing, boat building and fishing. To advance education through promotion of the arts. To promote for the public benefit the preservation of buildings and other structures or features of historical and/or architectural significance. To provide facilities for recreation and other leisure time occupation available to the public at large within the North East of Scotland with a view to improving their conditions of life. To promote training, particularly among residents of the North East of Scotland, and with particular reference to skills which will assist the participants in obtaining paid employment. To promote, establish, operate and/or support other projects and initiatives of a charitable nature for the benefit within the North East Scotland.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of health
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
  • 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

To advance education, and particularly with regard to the maritime and cultural heritage of the North East of Scotland To preserve for the benefit of the general public traditional craft skills, and particularly those associated with sailing, boat building and fishing To advance education through promotion of the arts To promote for the public benefit the preservation (whether wholly or in part) of buildings and other structures or features of historical and/or architectural significance To provide, in the interests of social welfare, facilities for recreation and other leisure time occupation available to the public at large within the North East of Scotland with a view to improving their conditions of life To promote training, particularly among residents of the North East of Scotland, and with particular reference to skills which will assist the participants in obtaining paid employment To relieve the needs of people (and particularly those residents in the North East of Scotland) who suffer from mental and/or physical disability, illness or impairment or have particular needs by reason of old age or current or past drug, solvent and/or alcohol abuse, and their carers and families To promote and protect the welfare and physical health of the residents of the North East of Scotland, and to assist in the relief of ill health and the provision of health education for such residents To promote, establish, operate and/or support other projects and initiatives of a charitable nature for the benefit of the community within the North East of Scotland

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 December 2025£248,551£368,066222 April 2026
31 December 2024£300,668£366,508224 September 2025
31 December 2023£256,936£303,83223 October 2024
31 December 2022£261,912£259,544212 September 2023
31 December 2021£333,080£158,313212 September 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
Salmon Bothy, Links Road, Portsoy, Banff
Website supplied to OSCR
www.stbfportsoy.com
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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