OSCR Scottish charity profile

Northern Lighthouse Heritage Trust

ActiveCharity number SC040872
Registered25 September 2009
Main locationCity of Edinburgh
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC040872
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Scotland and other parts of the UK
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
EH2 3DA

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture, or science. The Trust aims to operate in the fields of 'heritage' and 'culture' in both the built heritage and the culture from over 200 years of building and maintaining lighthouses around our coast. The advancement of environmental protection or improvement. and the advancement of education.

Charitable purposes

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

Beneficiaries

  • Other defined groups
  • Other charities or voluntary bodies

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

The Company shall be established for charitable purposes (as defined in section 106 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 or any subsequent re-enactment thereon) only. declaring without prejudice to the foregoing generality that the Company may apply the assets exclusively for the following charitable purposes, namely: (a) the advancement of the arts, heritage and culture. and (b) the advancement of education. all through (one) the preservation, restoration conservation and/or display, for the public benefit, heritage and other items (including without limitation land, buildings , machinery, equipment, furniture, ornaments, books, memorabilia and other artefacts) of historical, social , architectural or engineering value in connection with lighthouses and other marine aids to navigation in Scotland and the Isle of Man and with the foundation and history of the Northern Lighthouse Board and those persons associated with the Northern Lighthouse Board and connected purposes (hereinafter referred to as 'Lighthouse Heritage') and (two) the advancement of the education of the public in the history and development of Lighthouse Heritage.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
30 September 2025£275,112£21,27107 July 2026
30 September 2024£13,154£31,699030 January 2025
30 September 2023£17,872£29,16107 June 2024
30 September 2022£14,898£12,427031 May 2023
30 September 2021£11,972£281013 April 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
84 George Street, Edinburgh
Website supplied to OSCR
http://www.nlb.org.uk/
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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