Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 0

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

(no info on trustees)

No supporters identified

Overall GiG Score: 2

ROYAL SCOTTISH SOCIETY OF ARTS

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Financial Data

Income & Spending ?

Period ending	30/09/17	31/08/18	31/08/19	31/08/20	31/08/21	31/08/22
Total income	£6,933	£6,671	£7,956	£7,715	£6,131	£33,828
Total spending	£5,193	£3,167	£26,869	£3,210	£5,368	£36,600
Surplus/deficit	£1,740	£3,504	-£18,913	£4,505	£763	-£2,772

Established: 122 years

https://www.rssa.org.uk/

Listed activities

It carries out activities or services itself

GiG Classification

Social & legal advocacy

Purposes

The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science

Where it operates

Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: City of Edinburgh

Who it helps

No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Who's supporting 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 21/05/1902, number: SC015549

Filing Record

5 returns made; all on time

Main office

23 Queen's Crescent, Edinburgh, EH9 2BB

Objectives

Encouraging the useful arts in Scotland, under, inter alia, the following conditions, 'That this sum is on no account to be encroached upon but the interest from it is to be applied in sums of money or medals in rewarding Inventions, Improvements or discoveries in the useful Arts, which shall be primarily submitted to the Society.

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