# Dorlach

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC050162
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
- **Registered:** May 18, 2020
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC050162


## Contact

- **Address:** Caladh, An Dùnan, Broadford
- **Postcode:** IV49 9AJ



## Activities

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

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

**What the charity does:** Our main goal is to preserve and help pass on Gaelic traditional knowledge and language with a particular focus on its dialectal diversity. We have been particularly engaged with Elders in our communities to help them pass on their knowledge in their own term. That knowledge is recorded and we have been processing it to be usable by future tradition bearers and other community members, as well as the academic community.

**Beneficiaries:** 'No specific group, or for the benefit of the community'

**Objectives:** Your charitable purposes are:     Your charitable objects are:                      Your SCIO’s accounting reference date is:   	B – the advancement of education G – the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science  The organisation’s purposes are too advance education, heritage and culture by: 4.1 researching and recording the minority Gaelic dialects of Scotland, and encouraging, enabling and promoting their active use as living community vernaculars. 4.2 organising cultural and linguistic exchanges between speakers of Scottish Gaelic and speakers of other Goidelic, Celtic and minority languages around the world.  4.3 developing an orthographic approach to dialect representation in Gaelic which allows for flexibility beyond the Gaelic Orthographic Conventions (GOC).





## Geography

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



## Finances

| Period end | Income | Expenditure | Assets | Employees | Accounts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 31, 2026 | £0 | £0 |  -  | 0 |  |
| March 31, 2025 | £4324 | £2543 |  -  | 0 | [PDF](/sc/SC050162/files/2025-03-31-accounts.pdf) (956.1 KB) |
| March 31, 2024 | £1171 | £3598 |  -  | 1 |  |
| March 31, 2023 | £3468 | £800 |  -  | 1 |  |
| March 31, 2022 | £1381 | £919 |  -  | 0 |  |
| March 31, 2021 | £1079 | £0 |  -  | 0 |  |