OSCR Scottish charity profile

High Life Highland

ActiveCharity number SC042593
Registered15 September 2011
Main locationHighland
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC042593
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Wider, but within one local authority area
Volunteers
over 250 volunteers
Staff
1,207
Postcode
IV3 5SS

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

To make life better by providing affordable access to opportunties in sport, leisure and culture across the length and breadth of the Highlands.

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 advancement of public participation in sport

Beneficiaries

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

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

4.1 To advance the arts, heritage, culture and science. 4.2 To advance public participation in sport. 4.3 To provide recreational facilities, and organise recreational activities, with such facilities/activities being made available to members of the public at large, with the object of improving their conditions of life. 4.4 To advance education. 4.5 To advance health. 4.6 To advance citizenship and/or community development (which may include the promotion of civic responsibility, volunteering, the voluntary sector and/or the effectiveness or efficiency of charities). 4.7 To relieve those in need by reason of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage. 4.8 To advance such similar charitable purposes as the directors may consider appropriate from time to time, through the provision of services (including those entrusted to it by The Highland Council), which contribute to advancing wellbeing (primarily the wellbeing of residents of the area served by The Highland Council) including the operation, management, development and (where appropriate) delivery of the following facilities and services:- (MAXIMUM TEXT REACHED, FURTHER FULL INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED FROM THE CHARITY DIRECTLY)

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£40,017,352£39,143,5521,20724 December 2025
31 March 2024£38,515,065£38,780,5611,20718 December 2024
31 March 2023£34,907,762£42,704,1401,2078 November 2023
31 March 2022£31,676,258£38,613,3481,20713 December 2022
31 March 2021£30,478,738£30,137,9411,20719 November 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
Highland Archive Centre , Bught Road, Inverness
Website supplied to OSCR
www.highlifehighland.com
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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