OSCR Scottish charity profile

Culture Perth and Kinross Limited

Known as Culture Perth and Kinross

ActiveCharity number SC046353
Registered19 February 2016
Main locationPerth And Kinross
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC046353
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
Wider, but within one local authority area
Volunteers
51-100 volunteers
Staff
125
Postcode
PH2 8EP

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

Our vision is to be at the heart of a community that connects people, ideas, knowledge and collections. Our mission is to develop and deliver a range of innovative and creative cultural services, public programmes and partnerships which engage a wide and diverse audience in the best of local, national and international culture. We believe that access to library services, learning opportunities and enjoyment of cultural events and activities are valuable and have a lasting impact on individuals' lives.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
  • the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended

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: 4.1 To advance the visual and applied arts, heritage and culture. 4.2 To provide recreational facilities, and organise recreational activities (in furtherance of article 4.1), with such facilities/activities being made available to members of the public at large, with the object of improving their conditions of life. 4.3 - To advance education through promoting knowledge, lifelong learning opportunities and active citizenship. 4.4 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). 4.5 To advance such similar charitable purposes as the directors may consider appropriate from time to time, and all through the provision of services (including those entrusted to it by Perth and Kinross Council and those taken forward in partnership with such other bodies as may be necessary and appropriate), which contribute to advancing wellbeing (primarily the wellbeing of residents of the area served by Perth and Kinross Council) including: a) collecting, preserving and interpreting the permanent museum and fine art collections held in stewardship by Perth and Kinross Council. b) advancing those visual and applied arts which are of national and international significance. c) developing the use of library, local studies and archive services. d) operating, managing and developing Cultural Facilities (including arrangements to facilitate access to such facilities by those on lower incomes or with special needs and to encourage wider participation in cultural activities). and e) developing and delivering Cultural Activities and events directed towards wider participation in such activities.

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endTotal incomeDonationsCharitable activities incomeTrading incomeInvestment incomeOther incomeTotal expenditureRaising fundsCharitable activities spendingOther spendingStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£5,534,061£540,249£4,026,721£745,957£52,564£168,570£6,844,780£749,021£6,095,759£012513 November 2025
31 March 2024£5,283,140£1,534,363£3,463,585£118,478£84,509£82,205£6,455,521£121,787£6,333,734£012525 September 2024
31 March 2023£4,061,564£493,144£3,363,756£110,696£32,143£61,825£4,257,855£91,348£4,124,507£42,0001256 July 2023
31 March 2022£4,426,678£981,120£3,224,515£72,684£4,842£143,517£3,828,516£77,240£3,751,276£012510 November 2022
31 March 2021£3,774,173£382,616£3,129,456£7,421£4,353£250,327£3,312,737£28,935£3,283,802£012522 December 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
A K Bell Library, 2-8 York Place, Perth
Website supplied to OSCR
www.culturepk.org.uk
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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