01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC042334
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- More than one local authority area in Scotland
- Volunteers
- 0 volunteers
- Staff
- 3
- Postcode
- EH2 2PR
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
The Sustainable Inshore Fisheries Trust is a Scottish charity established in 2011 to promote the sustainable management of Scotland’s inshore waters (which lie within 12 miles of the coast). We aim to ensure that the diversity and abundance of life in these waters is protected and restored and provides the maximum long term social and economic benefits to all coastal communities.
Charitable purposes
- the advancement of education
- the advancement of environmental protection or improvement
Beneficiaries
- Other defined groups
- No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
Activities
- It does none of these
Constitutional objectives
(1) The promotion for public benefit of the conservation and restoration of the natural ecosystems of Scotland’s inshore waters. (2) The promotion for public benefit of the sustainable development of Scotland’s inshore marine resources. Sustainable development being defined as: “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”. (3) To educate the public and any association, company, local authority, administrative, or government agency or public body or representative body in: a. Scotland’s inshore marine aquatic ecosystems, including their fauna, flora, habitat and morphology and their relationship with economic and social activities including inshore fisheries management. and b. The benefits of protecting, conserving, rehabilitating and improving Scotland’s inshore marine environment. (4)The advancement for public benefit of environmental protection or improvement by promoting the thinking and practice of sustainable management of inshore waters
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Total income | Donations | Charitable activities income | Trading income | Investment income | Other income | Total expenditure | Raising funds | Charitable activities spending | Other spending | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 May 2025 | £262,973 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £203,271 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 3 | 25 February 2026 |
| 31 May 2024 | £211,735 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £205,171 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 3 | 3 February 2025 |
| 31 May 2023 | £105,251 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £147,528 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 3 | 8 February 2024 |
| 31 May 2022 | £167,828 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £158,359 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 3 | 2 February 2023 |
| 31 May 2021 | £99,860 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | £115,553 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 3 | 8 February 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
- Thorn House, 5 Rose Street, Edinburgh
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.sift.scot
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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