# Bressay History Group

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC020818
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Unincorporated association
- **Registered:** Dec. 7, 1992
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC020818


## Contact

- **Address:** Birka, Bressay, Shetland
- **Postcode:** ZE2 9EL
- **Website:** www.bressay-history-group.org



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the advancement of education&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of citizenship or community development&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science&#x27;

**What the charity does:** To collect and exhibit Bressay History in our Heritage Centre.  To provide research facilities from our archives.  To provide family history to those with a connection to Bressay.  We are open to all three days a week and by appointment.

**Beneficiaries:** &#x27;No specific group, or for the benefit of the community&#x27;

**Objectives:** In furtherance of these aims and objects:      (a) to preserve, exhibit and publish for the benefit,   enjoyment and education of the public, items of   Bressay folklore,· tradition, place names, dialect,   manuscripts, publications, pictorial and   photographic records.      (b) to co-operate with other bodies whose aims and   objects are similar to that of the Trust:      c) carry out such other purpose or purposes charitable   in law as sha].l be thougl1t appropriate at any time   and from time to time and to do all things as will   pro per 1 y at t a i nth e abo v e p u rp 0 s e s • The purposes   and objects set out in this clause are hereinafter   c.alled &#x27;the purposes of the Trust&#x27;.





## Geography

- **Main operating location:** Shetland Islands
- **Geographical spread:** A specific local point, community or neighbourhood







