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Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland

Country
Scotland
Charity number
SC043009
Status
Active
Registered
March 15, 2012
Legal form
SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

Address

Address
Scottish Storytelling Centre
43-45 High Street
Edinburgh
EH1 1SR

Contact

Website
tracscotland.org
Website screenshot

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'

TRACS (Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland) is a co-operative network which champions our shared traditions of music, song, storytelling, dance, crafts, customs and local languages. TRACS brings together the Traditional Music Forum and the Scottish Storytelling Forum. Together we celebrate the local distinctiveness of Scotland’s places: our intangible cultural heritage (ICH). TRACS and the Forums provide a range of activities in traditional arts including festivals, workshops and training, along with advocacy for the sector, including as a UNESCO-accredited NGO for ICH, working across the country from its base at the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh.

Beneficiaries: 'Children or young people','Older People','People with disabilities or health problems','People with a particular ethnic or racial origin','Other charities or voluntary bodies'

Objectives: 2. The SCIO will operate as a charitable organisation and its purposes are: 2.1 To increase knowledge and understanding of Scotland's culture, traditions, languages and living heritage. 2.2 To advance the practice of the arts in Scotland by: 2.2.1 perpetuating, propagating and developing creative skills grounded in Scotland's cultural traditions of music, storytelling, dance, song and crafts, and their shared development. 2.2.2 widening access to these creative practices and skills across all sectors of Scottish society and all age groups. 2.3 To advance cultural heritage in Scotland by: 2.3.1 enabling individuals and communities to source, interpret and express their intangible or living heritage as a resource for the arts, lifelong learning, and community life and wellbeing. 2.3.2 fostering cultural exchange and understanding between diverse communities of place, culture, faith and language, and between such minority communities and Scottish society as a whole. 2.4 To increase international understanding of Scotland's living cultural traditions and artistic heritage.

Geography

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

Finances

Period end Income Expenditure Employees
March 31, 2025 £665,642 £750,475 8
March 31, 2024 £694,627 £765,347 6
March 31, 2023 £889,508 £800,617 9
March 31, 2022 £746,440 £729,683 7
March 31, 2021 £853,495 £743,658 7