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The Scottish Schools Pipes and Drums Trust

Country
Scotland
Charity number
SC037980
Status
Active
Registered
March 21, 2007
Legal form
Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)

Address

Address
Room 1
Thistle Court
1-2 Thistle Street
Edinburgh
EH2 1DD

Contact

Website
sspdt.org.uk
Screenshot of the The Scottish Schools Pipes and Drums Trust website

Activities

'It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals','It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations','It carries out activities or services itself'

'the advancement of education','the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science'

The Trust's principal activity is the development of tuition and pipe band programmes in state schools. The trust delivers: 1) Grants and guidance that help set up and support pipe band programmes for state schools. 2) Instrument lending schemes that lend bagpipes, B-flat chanters, small pipes, drum pads and chanters free of charge. 3) The Scottish Schools Pipe Band Championships and the Summer MusicFest, both annually. 4) Paid apprenticeships and internships, often in partnership with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. 5) The Trust also advocates opportunities to learn pipes and drums on a par with orchestral instruments, and on a level that responds to pupil interest in learning. 6) The Trust has developed flexible programme models that respond to local and regional contexts, in partnership with local education authorities (LEAs), schools, community pipe bands, voluntary organisations and co-funders.

Beneficiaries: 'Children or young people','Other charities or voluntary bodies'

Objectives: The Trustees shall hold and apply the Trust Fund only for purposes charitable in law, and specifically shall hold and apply it for the advancement of education, the arts, heritage and culture, and community development by:- (a) Encouraging, in particular (but not exclusively) across Scotland and amongst young people, the uptake and playing of the chanter, pipes and drums, and, if appropriate, such other musical instruments (traditional or otherwise) where they are used in the playing of music in combination with the pipes and/or highland drums. (b) Serving as a national organisation for the promotion and provision of tuition in piping and highland drumming, particularly through the establishment and development of school pipes bands. This shall include (but not be limited to) the administration and management of the Scottish Schools’ Piping Championships. and (c) Broadening young people’s education, in particular their musical and social skills.

Geography

Main operating location
City of Edinburgh
Geographical spread
Operations cover all or most of Scotland

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure Employees
March 31, 2026 £2,678,000 £671,235 11
March 31, 2025 £470,496 £701,754 10
March 31, 2024 £377,462 £511,212 10
March 31, 2023 £335,001 £519,195 12
March 31, 2022 £313,172 £568,715 11
March 31, 2021 £496,642 £355,780 12