# The Scottish Schools Pipes and Drums Trust

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC037980
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
- **Registered:** March 21, 2007
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC037980


## Contact

- **Address:** Room 1, Thistle Court, 1-2 Thistle Street, Edinburgh
- **Postcode:** EH2 1DD
- **Website:** http://www.sspdt.org.uk



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals&#x27;,&#x27;It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations&#x27;,&#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#x27;

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

**What the charity does:** The Trust&#x27;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:** &#x27;Children or young people&#x27;,&#x27;Other charities or voluntary bodies&#x27;

**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







