OSCR Scottish charity profile

3TFM Community Radio For Health

ActiveCharity number SC038383
Registered21 June 2007
Main locationNorth Ayrshire
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC038383
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Wider, but within one local authority area
Volunteers
51-100 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
KA22 8EH

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Our Charity is Community Radio Station broadcasting to the area of Scotland known as the 3 Towns in North Ayrshire. The towns are Ardrossan, Saltcoats, and Stevenston. We are broadcasting one of the most deprived areas of Scotland with high levels of deprivation, unemployment, long term illness, and under age pregnancies, along with drugs and alcohol misuse.

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of health
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development

Beneficiaries

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

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

(1) To advance health, to advance education, to relieve poverty, and to advance citizenship and community development principally for the benefit of the residents of Stevenston, Saltcoats and Ardrossan ('the Community') through: (a) Providing training and to engage with the residents of the Community in the design and production of local radio programmes which provide access to healthy lifestyle information, uplifting and educational speech, music of relevance to the Community, and which provide entertainment. (b) Providing public health information and general advice and guidance on health and wellbeing through the medium of a community radio service. (c) Providing training, particularly to unemployed people, and to provide unemployed people with volunteering opportunities, work experience and access to childcare facilities. (d) Providing opportunities for individuals and groups from the Community to broadcast, with an emphasis on young people and adults affected by social exclusion. (e) Providing guidance on the availability of support and advice from statutory bodies, agencies and charities within the Community and to do so without distinction of race, sex or political, religious or other opinions.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 May 2025£3,538£4,962015 February 2026
31 May 2024£7,537£6,682010 February 2025
31 May 2023£1,247£7,072015 February 2024
31 May 2022£5,962£8,290017 February 2023
31 May 2021£14,062£9,156019 December 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
The Frank Sweeney Centre for Enterprise, 82 - 84 Glasgow Street, , Ardrossan,, Ayrshire
Website supplied to OSCR
www.3tfm.org.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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