Finance Score: -3

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 0

Strong growth: +2
Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

(no info on trustees)

No supporters identified

Overall GiG Score: -3

BIOLOGICAL RECORDING IN SCOTLAND BRISC

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years

Financial issues to consider:

Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

Financial Data

Income & Spending ?

Period ending	31/12/17	31/12/18	31/12/19	31/12/20	31/12/21	31/12/22	31/12/23
Total income	£3,193	£3,674	£3,264	£3,269	£1,110	£1,310	£920
Total spending	£3,331	£1,707	£1,324	£1,074	£722	£1,559	£6,739
Surplus/deficit	-£138	£1,967	£1,940	£2,195	£388	-£249	-£5,819

Established: 29 years

www.brisc.org.uk

Listed activities

It carries out activities or services itself

GiG Classification

Museums, parks, historical sites

Purposes

The advancement of environmental protection or improvement

Where it operates

Operations cover all or most of Scotland, main operating location: Perth And Kinross

Who it helps

Other defined groups

Who supports them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees

Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

Legal constitution

Charity registered in Scotland on 01/02/1996, number: SC024418

Filing Record

5 returns made; AR19: 127 days late,

Main office

7 Muirden Road, Maryburgh, Dingwall, IV7 8EJ

Objectives

The objects of the organisation are to advance the education of the public about biological diversity and to promote for the benefit of the public the conservation of the environment and in furtherance thereof but not otherwise. a) To promote the effective gathering and use of biological data and other related information as a means to develop an understanding of Scotland's biodiversity and contribute to the conservation of the natural heritage of Scotland. b) To stimulate biological recording in Scotland through promotion of a network of area based local records centres and recording groups. c) To represent the interests of those records centres, recording groups and individual recorders to other organisations. d) To promote co-ordination/co-operation between and training of individuals and organisations with an interest in biological recording. e) To promote the adoption of good practice and minimum standards of biological recording and the accreditation of records centres.

Data Sources

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