Charity Details

Sustainable Inshore Fisheries Trust

SC042334Registered charity from 25 May 2011

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Charity Information:

Address Thorn House
5 Rose Street
Edinburgh

Postcode EH2 2PR

Website www.sift.scot

Regulatory Type Standard

Link to Companies House https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/

Object:

(1) The promotion for public benefit of the conservation and restoration of the natural ecosystems of Scotland’s inshore waters. (2) The promotion for public benefit of the sustainable development of Scotland’s inshore marine resources. Sustainable development being defined as: “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”. (3) To educate the public and any association, company, local authority, administrative, or government agency or public body or representative body in: a. Scotland’s inshore marine aquatic ecosystems, including their fauna, flora, habitat and morphology and their relationship with economic and social activities including inshore fisheries management; and b. The benefits of protecting, conserving, rehabilitating and improving Scotland’s inshore marine environment. (4)The advancement for public benefit of environmental protection or improvement by promoting the thinking and practice of sustainable management of inshore waters

Operations:

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

The Sustainable Inshore Fisheries Trust is a Scottish charity established in 2011 to promote the sustainable management of Scotland’s inshore waters (which lie within 12 miles of the coast). We aim to ensure that the diversity and abundance of life in these waters is protected and restored and provides the maximum long term social and economic benefits to all coastal communities.

Charity Status: Active

Constitutional Form: Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)

Constitutional Form Date: 25 May 2011

Main Operating Location: City of Edinburgh

Number of Staff: 3

Number of Volunteers: 0

Purposes: "the advancement of education", "the advancement of environmental protection or improvement"

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

Types Of Activity Undertaken: "It does none of these"

Annual Submissions:

Year End	Income	Expenditure	Annual Return Received	Accounts Received	Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
31 May 2021	£99,860	£115,553	08 Feb 2022	Yes
31 May 2022	£167,828	£158,359	02 Feb 2023	Yes
31 May 2023	£105,251	£147,528	08 Feb 2024	Yes
31 May 2024	£211,735	£205,171	03 Feb 2025	Yes
31 May 2025	£262,973	£203,271	25 Feb 2026	Yes	Published accounts can be found on the Companies House website
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
Jeremy	Percy
Jeremy	Whitley
Abigail	Entwistle
Rupert	Ormond
Susan	Gubbay
James	Harrison
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