# Vale of Atholl Pipers Association SCIO

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC049396
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
- **Registered:** June 19, 2019
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC049396


## Contact

- **Address:** 1 Balchraggan, Tulliemet, Pitlochry
- **Postcode:** PH9 0PB
- **Website:** http://thevale.org/



## Activities

**Activities:** &#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 organisation, as per the purpose, organises twice a week tuition and practices sessions. These give coverage from ab initio tuition all the way to advanced bagpipe and drumming, both solo and as a band. These practice sessions prepare the members for public performances comprising of the ever popular Highland Nights that run from May to August in Pitlochry, numerous street parades, and competitive pipe band competitions across Scotland and Northern Ireland.

**Objectives:** The organisations purposes are to advance the education of the public, particularly young people living and working in the Vale of Atholl and surrounding areas in the art of bagpipe playing and drumming, by the presentation of public performance and other related activities to promote, advance and encourage bagpipe playing and drumming and to promote the traditions of pipe band music.





## Areas of operation

- **Main operating location:** Perth And Kinross
- **Geographical spread:** A specific local point, community or neighbourhood






