Finance Score: -1

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 4

Volatile income
spending growth: -1
No PartB

(no info on trustees)

Grant maker support: +4

Overall GiG Score: 3

THE JOHN RAE SOCIETY

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from a grant maker
There have been no income shortfalls in recent years

Financial issues to consider:

Income has been volatile recently but spending has been maintained

Financial Data

Income & Spending ?

Period ending	05/04/18	05/04/19	05/04/20	05/04/21	05/04/22	05/04/23
Total income	£70,649	£42,092	£63,288	£94,355	£70,700	£46,757
Total spending	£10,013	£21,519	£28,874	£69,497	£39,372	£43,462
Surplus/deficit	£60,636	£20,573	£34,414	£24,858	£31,328	£3,295

Established: 10 years

http://www.johnraesociety.com/

Listed activities

It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
It carries out activities or services itself

GiG Classification

Land or water management

Purposes

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

Where it operates

UK and overseas, main operating location: Orkney Islands

Who it helps

No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
Other charities or voluntary bodies

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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to The John Rae Society
£35,000	30/11/2021 12	The Hall of Clestrain Development - renovation of an at risk 'A' listed building and development of a new visitor centre
Co-Operative Group - Grant to John Rae Society
£9,928	15/11/2019	We want to buy and fit out a temporary building as a visitor centre and volunteer hub, so we can open the Hall of Clestrain to more people.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees

Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

Legal constitution

Charity registered in Scotland on 02/12/2013, number: SC044463

Filing Record

5 returns made; all on time

Main office

Fursbreck Pottery, Harray, Orkney, KW17 2JR

Objectives

The organisation's purposes are: 1. To advance the education of the public in the life and achievements of John Rae as the discoverer of the final navigable link of the Northwest Passage and one of the greatest arctic explorers. 2. To the advance the arts, heritage, culture and science by promoting the life and achievements of John Rae to foster friendship and understanding between members of the public, the people of Orkney, and those in Canada, particularly, but not exclusively, those areas associated with John Rae, through a broad range of activities.

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