Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 0
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: -1 ?

ECONOMIC HISTORY SOCIETY 

THE ECONOMIC HISTORY SOCIETY EXISTS TO:PROMOTE THE STUDY OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY;ESTABLISH CLOSER RELATIONS BETWEEN STUDENTS AND TEACHERS OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY;ISSUE THE ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW;PUBLISH AND SPONSOR OTHER PUBLICATIONS IN THE FIELDS OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY;HOLD AN ANNUAL CONFERENCE;TO CO-OPERATE WITH OTHER ORGANISATIONS HAVING KINDRED PURPOSES.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • There are 24 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 60 years

https://ehs.org.uk

ehsocsec@arts.gla.ac.uk

01413304662

Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebookX

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
30/06/23£404£416£-13n/an/an/an/an/a30
30/06/22£328£334£-6n/an/an/an/an/a0
30/06/21£368£320£47n/an/an/an/an/a0
30/06/20£438£381£57n/an/an/an/an/a0
30/06/19£395£392£3n/an/an/an/an/a0
30/06/18£410£393£17£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/17£379£403£-24£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/16£341£382£-42£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/15£355£387£-32£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/14£342£381£-39£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/13£350£371£-21£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/12£324£357£-33£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/11£342£277£65£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/10£333£274£60£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/09£285£271£14£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/08£250£237£13£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/07£242£203£39£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/06£223£176£48£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/05£224£180£43£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/04£195£183£12£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Education/Training
How it operates
  • Acts as an umbrella or resource body
  • Makes Grants to Individuals
  • Makes Grants to Organisations
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Sponsors or undertakes research
Where it operates
  • Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 30 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (24)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 22/24 persons

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 14/05/1964, number: 228494
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Risk management
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
Filing Record
20 returns made; all on time
Main office

University of Glasgow
Economic and Social History
Room 613(b), Gilbert Scott Building
Glasgow
G12 8QQ

Objectives

TO PROMOTE THE STUDY AND TEACHING OF ECONOMIC HISTORY.

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
CharityBase
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