Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 11
  • Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -2 times
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +11
Overall GiG Score: 16 ?

AN LANNTAIR LTD 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

  • Accounts have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years
  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 39 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/03/18 31/03/19 31/03/20 31/03/21 31/03/22 31/03/23
Charitable activities £1,241,539 £1,074,428 £1,047,186 £1,348,057 £1,013,810
Donations & Legacies £6,930 £4,167 £4,587 £1,376 £4,536
Other Income £7,000
Investment Income £54 £120 £42 £38 £1,082
Total income £1,248,523 £1,078,715 £1,058,815 £1,377,419 £1,197,443 £1,132,066
Charitable activities spending £1,387,311 £1,430,057 £1,318,080 £1,106,665 £1,390,158
Fundraising costs 0% 2% 4%
Other spending
Total spending £1,387,311 £1,430,057 £1,318,080 £1,112,182 £1,335,557 £1,432,661
Surplus/deficit -£138,788 -£351,342 -£259,265 £265,237 -£138,114 -£300,595
What it does
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Who it helps
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
Purposes
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
Where it operates
  • Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: Western Isles

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years
Bòrd na Gàidhlig£66,300
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£60,000
Scottish Government£56,380
The Foyle Foundation£30,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£30,000 18/09/2023
to sustain and expand the artist support programme over the next 12 months
Bòrd na Gàidhlig - Cuirmean sna Coimhearsnachdan
£10,000 09/06/2022
A' cur sreath de thachartasan Gàidhlig ealantach air dòigh air feadh Eilean Leòdhais / Arranginga series of Gaelic arts events across the Isle of Lewis
Bòrd na Gàidhlig - Coimhearsnachd An Lanntair
£15,500 18/06/2021
12
A' cumail taic ri dreuchd Oifigear Gàidhlig agus tachartasan Gàidhlig aig An Lanntair ann an Steòrnabhagh / Supporting the Gaelic officer post and Gaelic events at An Lanntair in Stornoway
Scottish Government - An Lanntair Ltd
£45,520 04/03/2021
Detailed description not provided.
Bòrd na Gàidhlig - Na h-Ealainean Gàidhlig mar Phrìomhachas
£6,000 05/08/2020
A' clàradh filmichean a tha taisbeanadh ealain de dhiofar meadhanan is air an lìbhrigeadh tro mheadhan na Gàidhlig / Recording films that display art of different forms and delivered through the ....more
Bòrd na Gàidhlig - Oifigear na Gàidhlig
£15,000 09/06/2020
A' fastadh oifigear gus taic a chumail ris na h-ealain Gàidhlig is cur ri chothroman do luchd-labhairt na Gàidhlig tro obair An Lanntair / Employing an officer to support the Gaelic arts and ....more
Scottish Government - An Lanntair Ltd
£10,860 08/05/2020
Detailed description not provided.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to An Lanntair
£10,000 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 fast response grant
Bòrd na Gàidhlig - Oifigear na Gàidhlig
£19,800 20/05/2019
A’ fastadh oifigear Gàidhlig gus poileasaidh Gàidhlig na buidhne a chur an gnìomh, tachartasan Gàidhlig a chur air dòigh agus taic a chur ri ealain na Gàidhlig san sgìre / Employing a Gaelic ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Creative Learning in the Western Isles
£60,000 13/05/2019
24
To work with seventeen schools on Harris and Lewis in the Western Isles of Scotland to explore and test a professional learning scheme to develop teachers’ practice, and a series of arts-based ....more
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to An Lanntair
£60,000 17/09/2018
36
Towards an artist development scheme for isolated rural island communities.
Bòrd na Gàidhlig - Sineadh air dreuchd Oifigear Lìonradh Ealain Gàidhlig
£2,850 01/05/2018
A' toirt sìneadh air dreuchd a bhios cur ri na h-ealain Gàidhlig anns na h-Eileanan an Iar / Extending a job position that will contribute to the Gaelic arts in the Western Isles
National Lottery Community Fund - Cianalas
£103,536 23/01/2018
24
The group will run a project from their base in the arts centre for the Isles of Lewis and Harris, which focuses on arts to work with people living with dementia and their families and carers. The ....more
Robertson Trust - The Art Lab tutor sessional fees, transport and materials costs
£30,000 23/05/2017
The Art Lab tutor sessional fees, transport and materials costs
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to An Lanntair
£59,900 27/02/2017
Collector Extraordinaire: Mackenzie Collection Exhibition and Festival of Scotland's South Asian Heritage and Culture
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to An Lanntair
£50,000 22/02/2016
24
Towards an artist development scheme for isolated rural island communities of Scotland.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (7)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Directors: 48-75
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 27/12/1984, number: SC003287
  • Registered at Companies House on 27/12/1984, number: SC091075
Filing Record
5 returns made; AR21: 92 days late, AR20: 36 days late,
Main office

TC Young, Merchants House, 7 West George Street, Glasgow , G2 1BA

Objectives

To promote the study, practice and knowledge of the arts for the public benefit and in furtherance of that object but not otherwise: (1) To present, promote, organise, provide, manage, and produce exhibitions, films, broadcasts, entertainments, and exhibitions whether on any premises of the Company or elsewhere as are conducive to the promotion, maintenance, improvement, and advancement of education or to the encouragement of the Arts.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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