Charity Details

The FirstGroup Heritage Trust

SC041849Registered charity from 28 October 2010

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Charity Information:

Address 128 Seafield Road
Aberdeen

Postcode AB15 7YQ

Is the supplied address a principal office or a trustee address? Trustee - Charity Trustee

Website No Link Provided

Regulatory Type Standard

Object:

the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture, science and education; particularly by identifying, bringing together (where possible), holding, adequately housing, maintaining, preserving, conserving and documenting a Collection; and (i) to display a Collection and with necessary safeguards and at suitable times to encourage and allow access to the public to a Collection particularly research workers, children and others pursuing an educational interest; to permit with similar safeguards, the loan of any items within a Collection for exhibition, research, promotional or other purposes within the foregoing purposes; and (ii) directly or indirectly, to stimulate public interest in a Collection for the foregoing purposes by suitable promotional activities thereby increasing regional amenities or attractions for the general public; (iii) to promote and assist in the collating and recording of historical or other information in connection with or ancillary to the foregoing purposes; and (iv) to assist and support, by donation or in any other manner, anybody with charitable purposes only and being purposes similar to any of the foregoing purposes;

Operations:

What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:

To restore and maintain a small fleet of vintage buses which have been owned or operated by First Group plc and its predecessors. To make these buses accessable to the general public from a heritage point of view and as an educatonal resource. The trust also holds a few items of memorabilia such as ticket machines which show the changes and advancement in technology.

Charity Status: Active

Constitutional Form: Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)

Constitutional Form Date: 28 Oct 2010

Main Operating Location: Aberdeenshire

Number of Staff: 0

Number of Volunteers: 1-50

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

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

Types Of Activity Undertaken: "It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations", "It carries out activities or services itself"

Annual Submissions:

Year End	Income	Expenditure	Annual Return Received	Accounts Received	Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
31 Mar 2022	£350	£3,481	21 Jun 2022	Yes
31 Mar 2023	£1,614	£4,860	03 Oct 2023	Yes
31 Mar 2024	£1,187	£4,203	13 Sept 2024	Yes
31 Mar 2025	£5,914	£4,485	21 Nov 2025	Yes	Not published by OSCR
31 Mar 2026			No	Annual Information due by 31 Dec 2026
If an annual return has been received on time (within nine months of the Year End Date), the 'Annual Return Received' box is green . If an annual return is late, the box is red .

Income and Expenditure:

Charity Trustees:

First Name	Last Name
Joe	Mackie OBE
Andrew	Metcalfe
Jason	Grant
Peter	McCutcheon
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