# Shapinsay Development Trust

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC034818
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)
- **Registered:** Sept. 1, 2003
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC034818


## Contact

- **Address:** Boathouse, Balfour, Orkney
- **Postcode:** Kw17 2DY
- **Website:** www.orkneycommunities.co.uk/shapinsay



## Activities

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

**Purposes:** &#x27;the prevention or relief of poverty&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of education&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of citizenship or community development&#x27;,&#x27;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&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of environmental protection or improvement&#x27;,&#x27;the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage&#x27;

**What the charity does:** The Orginisation was set up to create community benefit to Shapinsay through its charitable objectives through housing, enterprise, community wealth building, preserve heritage and wellbeing. etc

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

**Objectives:** The company’s objects are:  1) to provide in the interests of social welfare, facilities for recreation and other leisure time occupation available to the public at large in Shapinsay with a view to improving their conditions of life,  2) to advance education and in particular to promote opportunities for learning for the benefit of the general public,  3) to protect and/or preserve the environment for the benefit of the community and the general public,  4) to provide or assist in the provision of housing for people in necessitous circumstances within Shapinsay, 5) to relieve poverty particularly among the residents of the island of Shapinsay,  6) The advancement of community development (including rural re-generation  7) to promote, establish, operate and/or support other schemes and projects of a charitable nature for the benefit of the community of Shapinsay.





## Geography

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






