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Solar Tiree SCIO

Also known as: Solar Tiree

Country
Scotland
Charity number
SC052464
Status
Active
Reporting
Up to date Last filed Aug. 8, 2026. Filing history
Registered
April 11, 2023
Legal form
SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)

Address

Address
Failte
The Reef
Crossapol
Isle of Tiree
PA77 6UP

Contact

Website
solartiree.com
Screenshot of the Solar Tiree SCIO website

Activities

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

'the prevention or relief of poverty'

Solar is set up to support the Tiree Community especially those affected by poverty. Solar runs a community cupboard from an exBT phone box. This is stocked with supplies from the local Coop plus donations from Tiree residents.. It is designed for emergency and confidential use. Volunteers also visit clients (up to 18). As well as personal contact and a chat to combat loneliness clients are offered food and /or Coop food vouchers. Solar is also the agent for the Cruas Hardship Fund operated by Tiree Community Development Trust.

Beneficiaries: 'Other defined groups'

Objectives: 4 The organisation's purposes are to carry on activities which benefit the community and in particular without limitation, the prevention or the relief of poverty for those living on the island of Tiree. This will be achieved by inter alia: (a) setting up a contact point to allow islanders self-identifying as experiencing poverty to contact our volunteers confidentially (b) providing signposting to other organisations that can help clients tackle the root causes of food, fuel and other forms of poverty (c) providing emergency vouchers for the shops on the island for our clients (d) supplying our clients with food from local retailers which would otherwise be designated for landfill (e) maintaining a supply of emergency food in a central community store on the island that can be accessed confidentially by clients (f) working alongside like-minded charities on Tiree who have similar aims and objectives

Geography

Main operating location
Argyll And Bute
Geographical spread
A specific local point, community or neighbourhood

Finances

Period end Filed Income Expenditure
Oct. 31, 2025 Aug. 8, 20268 days late £16,426 £4,124
Oct. 31, 2024 May 14, 2025On time £17,545 £9,086
Oct. 31, 2023 Aug. 29, 202429 days late £5,160 £1,308

Due dates are 9 months after the year end, OSCR's deadline, so they don't allow for any extension OSCR has granted.