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Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 8
Support Score: 4
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why are there 21 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12?

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/07/17 31/07/18 31/07/19 31/07/20 31/07/21 31/07/22 31/07/23
Charitable activities £15,070,000 £16,323,000 £18,370,000 £17,248,000 £35,845,000 £38,500,000
Donations & Legacies
Other Income £25,156,000 £33,928,000 £35,869,000 £20,816,000 £5,040,000 £3,494,000
Investment Income £354,000 £304,000 £478,000 £296,000 £399,000 £747,000
Total income £40,796,000 £40,580,000 £50,555,000 £54,717,000 £38,360,000 £44,335,000 £47,110,000
Charitable activities spending £37,004,000 £39,346,000 £40,145,000 £42,276,000 £43,651,000 £44,727,000
Fundraising costs
Other spending £29,988,000 £13,386,000 £7,800,000 £4,404,000 £72,000
Total spending £39,915,000 £66,992,000 £52,732,000 £47,945,000 £46,680,000 £43,723,000 £44,727,000
Surplus/deficit £881,000 -£26,412,000 -£2,177,000 £6,772,000 -£8,320,000 £612,000 £2,383,000
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Established: 128 years
(132 years as a company)

www.gsa.ac.uk

Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
Purposes
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
Where it operates
  • UK and overseas, main operating location: Glasgow City
Who it helps
  • Other defined groups

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation - Grant to Glasgow School of Art
£2,000 19/05/2023
Travel support by a researcher from Glasgow to consolidate links with the textile disciplines of Tama Art and Kyoto Seika Universities in Japan, and to learn more about indigo dyeing, katazome and shibori, enabling the sharing of knowledge and a ....more
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Design Innovation & Cultural Resonances (Resonance): Place based Collaboration
£50,405 14/01/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH/W009080/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - The Value of Nature-Based Enterprise
£9,736 01/10/2021
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH/W008297/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Norman McLaren Revisited
£4,787 01/06/2021
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/V019627/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - UKRI COVID19 Doctoral Funding Glasgow School of Art
£15,462 01/04/2021
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/W502467/1
Glasgow City Council - Glasgow School of Art Exhibitions
£4,200 28/02/2019
A creative exhibitions and events programme that links Glasgow School of Art's four galleries.
Glasgow City Council - Glasgow School of Art Exhibitions
£4,200 31/05/2018
A creative exhibitions and events programme that links Glasgow School of Art's four galleries.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (21)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split
Based on 20/21 persons

Age Range of Directors: 23-79
  • PRIEST, Ann
    Appointed: 2022
    Occupation: Consultant (He And The Arts)
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 30/11/1896, number: SC012490
  • Registered at Companies House on 04/02/1892, number: SC002271
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

167 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, G3 6RQ

Objectives

The objects for which the School is established is the advancement of education, and in pursuance thereof the School is established to continue and take over the assets and liabilities of the Art School which has existed in Glasgow since 1842, latterly under the name of 'THE GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART AND HALDANE ACADEMY', and to advance, for the public benefit, the education of the public in the sphere of art including, without prejudice to the foregoing generality, art, fine art, design, and architecture and, in furtherance thereof, to provide for the giving of lectures, conducting of seminars, holding of conferences, to undertake research, and the promotion and support of exhibitions and to provide educational facilities and instruction and information on all matters connected with the sphere of art and of the objects of the School. The objects for which the School is established are wholly and exclusively charitable purposes.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving

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