# Comunn Eachdraidh Uig

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC027656
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
- **Registered:** Jan. 24, 1998
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC027656


## Contact

- **Address:** Uig Heritage and Community Centre, Timsgarry, Uig, Isle of Lewis, Western Isles
- **Postcode:** HS2 9JD



## 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 organise and run the Uig Museum, the purpose of which is to preserve, promote and strengthen the history and Gaelic cultural assets of the district of Uig in the Isle of Lewis. Uig Museum is committed to inclusivity and equal access to all. To have a duty of care for all items, artefacts, photographic materials, and documentation donated to or loaned to the Uig Museum.

**Beneficiaries:** &#x27;Children or young people&#x27;,&#x27;Older People&#x27;,&#x27;No specific group, or for the benefit of the community&#x27;

**Objectives:** a) For the advancement of the education of the general public,   without distinction of sex or of political, religious or other opinions,   by provision of the Museum comprising the Existing Collection   together with such other objects, specimens or collections as   may from time to time be acquired in accordance with the   provisions of this Deed (&#x27;the Collection&#x27;), in respect of which there will be a strong presumption against the subsequent disposal of any specimen:   b) To provide for the protection of the specimens comprised in the Collection from deterioration, damage, loss, accidental destruction or unauthorised disposal  c) To form, establish and support and to aid in the formation, establishment and support of any other charitable companies, institutions, associations, trusts or societies formed for objects





## Geography

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






