# Aberdeen & District Transport Preservation Trust

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC037877
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
- **Registered:** March 1, 2007
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC037877


## Contact

- **Address:** 5 Birkwood Place, Newton Mearns, Glasgow
- **Postcode:** G77 5FW
- **Website:** thebuscollectionatalford.co.uk



## Activities

**Activities:** 'It carries out activities or services itself'

**Purposes:** 'the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science'

**What the charity does:** To advance and promote the education of the general public, without distinction of sex or of political, religious or other opinions by bringing together, holding, adequately housing, maintaining, preserving, conserving and documenting a collection of buses, coaches, trams or other means or methods of public conveyance and/or their means of operation and any other equipment, machines, engines or contraptions or anything ancillary or related to, or which would be of interest alongside, any of the foregoing and being of historical, artistic scientific, regional or local importance.

**Objectives:** to advance and promote the education of the general public, without distinction of sex or of political, religious or other opinions by bringing together, holding, adequately housing, maintaining, preserving, conserving and documenting a collection of buses, coaches, trams or other means or methods of public conveyance and/or their means of operation and any other equipment, machines, engines or contraptions or anything ancillary or related to, or which would be of interest alongside, any of the foregoing and being of historical, artistic scientific, regional or local importance ('the Collection')





## Areas of operation

- **Main operating location:** Aberdeen
- **Geographical spread:** More than one local authority area in Scotland



## Finances

| Period end | Income | Expenditure | Assets | Employees | Accounts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug. 31, 2025 | £0 | £0 |  -  | 0 |  |
| Aug. 31, 2024 | £62939 | £54806 |  -  | 0 | [PDF](/sc/SC037877/files/2024-08-31-accounts.pdf) (356.1 KB) |
| Aug. 31, 2023 | £51580 | £79112 |  -  | 0 |  |
| Aug. 31, 2022 | £63573 | £56963 |  -  | 0 |  |
| Aug. 31, 2021 | £57250 | £45579 |  -  | 0 |  |