Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 0
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • No supporters identified
    Overall GiG Score: -5 ?

    BRESSAY HISTORY GROUP 

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

    Financial issues to consider:

    • Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
    Financial Data
    Income & Spending ?
    Period ending 30/09/17 30/09/18 30/09/19 30/09/20 30/09/21 30/09/22
    Total income £10,080 £8,832 £8,983 £16,767 £4,498 £4,433
    Total spending £10,606 £7,485 £6,657 £3,708 £3,777 £7,779
    Surplus/deficit -£526 £1,347 £2,326 £13,059 £721 -£3,346
    Established: 32 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • It carries out activities or services itself
    GiG Classification
    • Museums, parks, historical sites
    Purposes
    • The advancement of education
    • The advancement of citizenship or community development
    • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
    Where it operates
    • Shetland Islands
    Who it helps
    • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

    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 07/12/1992, number: SC020818
    Filing Record
    5 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    , ZE2 9EL

    Objectives

    In furtherance of these aims and objects: (a) to preserve, exhibit and publish for the benefit, enjoyment and education of the public, items of Bressay folklore,· tradition, place names, dialect, manuscripts, publications, pictorial and photographic records. (b) to co-operate with other bodies whose aims and objects are similar to that of the Trust: c) carry out such other purpose or purposes charitable in law as sha].l be thougl1t appropriate at any time and from time to time and to do all things as will pro per 1 y at t a i nth e abo v e p u rp 0 s e s • The purposes and objects set out in this clause are hereinafter c.alled 'the purposes of the Trust'.

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