Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: -3

Support Score: 0

Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

All male board: -3

No supporters identified

Overall GiG Score: -8

BRISBANE OBSERVATORY TRUST

Analysis by Giving is Great

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board is completely male

Financial issues to consider:

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

Financial Data

Income & Spending ?

Period ending	31/01/18	31/01/19	31/01/20	31/01/21	31/01/22	31/01/23
Total income	£7	£1,250	£666	£6,241	£6,540	£390
Total spending	£2,889	£1,607	£1,789	£1,664	£1,715	£1,720
Surplus/deficit	-£2,882	-£357	-£1,123	£4,577	£4,825	-£1,330

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Established: 13 years

Listed activities

It carries out activities or services itself

GiG Classification

Museums, parks, historical sites

Purposes

The advancement of education
The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science

Where it operates

Scotland and other parts of the UK, main operating location: North Ayrshire

Who it helps

Children or young people
Older People
People with a particular ethnic or racial origin','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?

Directors (7)

Current Directors appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 57-79

ADDYMAN, Thomas Oliver
Appointed: 2013
Occupation: Archaeologist

ENNIS, David Neville
Appointed: 2016
Occupation: Retired Company Director

KIRKWOOD, William John
Appointed: 2020
Occupation: Trustee

MCKAY, Dominic Boyce, Dr
Appointed: 2016
Occupation: Mathematician

MONRO, Seymour Hector Russell Hale, Major General The Hon, Cbe, Lvo
Appointed: 2012
Occupation: Major General

MONRO, Stuart Kinnaird
Appointed: 2015
Occupation: Retired Gealogist

SIMPSON, James Walter Thorburn, Dr
Appointed: 2011
Occupation: Architect

Legal constitution

Charity registered in Scotland on 15/04/2011, number: SC042253
Registered at Companies House on 31/01/2011, number: SC392502

Filing Record

5 returns made; all on time

Main office

, KA30 8SN

Objectives

(1) to advance heritage through preserving and restoring for public benefit the historic structure of General Sir Thomas Brisbane's first astronomical observatory, and the site and policy grounds of Brisbane House, together with the several meridian markers associated with the observatory. (2) to enhance and disseminate knowledge of Sir Thomas Brisbane's contribution to positional astronomy and the international significance of his pioneering observatory at Brisbane House. (3) to enhance understanding of nineteenth-century observatory design and construction techniques through experimental archaeology and use of contemporary equipment and materials. (4) to train a range of learners and professionals in the skills necessary for the repair and restoration of buildings of this quality. and (5) to commemorate the life and work of Sir Thomas Brisbane, especially his astronomical work in Scotland and Australia