OSCR Scottish charity profile

The FirstGroup Heritage Trust

ActiveCharity number SC041849
Registered28 October 2010
Main locationAberdeenshire
Legal formTrust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC041849
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
More than one local authority area in Scotland
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
AB15 7YQ

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The charity was formed to preserve and restore buses and coaches of interest as First Bus and it's predecessors Aberdeen Corporation Transport and Grampian Regional Transport. By maintaining these vehicles in running order they will be taken to public events for people to see and remember how road public transport has evolved over the years. It will also let these buses be used as a learning opportunity for younger people who perhaps didn't experience travelling on some of the older buses. The buses will be on show at public events particularly over summer months. The fleet will expand as appropriate and suitable vehicles come available to preserve or restore.

Charitable purposes

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

Beneficiaries

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

Activities

  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture, science and education. particularly by identifying, bringing together (where possible), holding, adequately housing, maintaining, preserving, conserving and documenting a Collection. and (i) to display a Collection and with necessary safeguards and at suitable times to encourage and allow access to the public to a Collection particularly research workers, children and others pursuing an educational interest. to permit with similar safeguards, the loan of any items within a Collection for exhibition, research, promotional or other purposes within the foregoing purposes. and (ii) directly or indirectly, to stimulate public interest in a Collection for the foregoing purposes by suitable promotional activities thereby increasing regional amenities or attractions for the general public. (iii) to promote and assist in the collating and recording of historical or other information in connection with or ancillary to the foregoing purposes. and (iv) to assist and support, by donation or in any other manner, anybody with charitable purposes only and being purposes similar to any of the foregoing purposes.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2026£25,744£8,315011 August 2026
31 March 2025£5,914£4,485021 November 2025
31 March 2024£1,187£4,203013 September 2024
31 March 2023£1,614£4,86003 October 2023
31 March 2022£350£3,481021 June 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
128 Seafield Road, Aberdeen
Website supplied to OSCR
Not supplied
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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