OSCR Scottish charity profile

Caithness Broch Project

Known as CBP

ActiveCharity number SC046307
Registered29 January 2016
Main locationHighland
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC046307
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Wider, but within one local authority area
Volunteers
0 volunteers
Staff
0
Postcode
KW3 6AH

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

The Caithness Broch Project aims to enrich the Caithness community by promoting education, heritage, culture, and poverty relief. Its focus includes offering educational activities about archaeological heritage, reconstructing historical structures, creating accessible archaeological records, and providing diverse heritage-related activities. The project also equips individuals to contribute to local heritage management and collaborates with various entities to further these goals The objectives of the charity have been consistent with previous years. In summary: 1. Preparations for the construction of a replica broch 2. Local community outreach 3. Engagement with heritage and tourism

Charitable purposes

  • the prevention or relief of poverty
  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science

Beneficiaries

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

Activities

  • It carries out activities or services itself

Constitutional objectives

The company’s objects are: To benefit the Caithness public by advancing education, community development, heritage, and culture, and the relief of poverty, and by encouraging people to learn about, record, and become involved in the heritage of Caithness through: (a) providing opportunities for all ages and abilities to learn about the rich archaeological heritage of their communities. (b) developing an understanding of the archaeological heritage through recreating a broch(s) or other structures. (c) creating archaeological records from the company's activities (e.g. recording, surveying, excavation), for public access now and in the future (e.g. website, public archives). (d) offering a range of activities to suit all interests and to allow progression including courses, above ground surveys, excavation, post-excavation activities and archival research. (e) providing tools and knowledge to enable people to make contributions to, and manage their local heritage. (f) working with other individuals, organisations, government bodies, quasi-autonomous organisations, museums, schools and projects to further the above aims of the Caithness Broch Project.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 October 2025£69,342£32,790022 July 2026
31 October 2024£34,995£18,415031 July 2025
31 October 2023£10,340£17,109024 July 2024
31 October 2022£20,918£19,742031 July 2023
31 October 2021£33,550£22,008030 July 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
Seaview House, Harbour Road, Lybster, Caithness
Website supplied to OSCR
www.thebrochproject.co.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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