Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 7
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • Overall weighted support: +7
    Overall GiG Score: 5 ?

    HISTORIC ENVIRONMENT SCOTLAND

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently

    Financial issues to consider:

    • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
    • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
    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 £44,584,000 £45,586,000 £48,387,000 £7,782,000 £38,113,000
    Donations & Legacies £73,000 £89,000 £94,000 £6,000 £169,000
    Other Income £37,515,000 £38,981,000 £38,811,000 £84,058,000 £62,458,000
    Investment Income
    Total income £97,292,000 £100,066,000 £103,324,000 £93,663,000 £97,400,000 £115,230,000
    Charitable activities spending £71,012,000 £74,065,000 £76,089,000 £72,785,000 £88,863,000
    Fundraising costs 22% 22% 23% 47% 9% 25%
    Other spending £12,082,000 £24,085,000 £13,461,000 £7,887,000 £17,872,000
    Total spending £96,273,000 £111,825,000 £104,092,000 £85,175,000 £102,173,000 £119,706,000
    Surplus/deficit £1,019,000 -£11,759,000 -£768,000 £8,488,000 -£4,773,000 -£4,476,000
    Established: 9 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    UN SDGs
    ?
    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
    • Museums, parks, historical sites
    Purposes
    • The advancement of education
    • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
    • The advancement of environmental protection or improvement
    Where it operates
    • UK and overseas, main operating location: City of Edinburgh
    Who it helps
    • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

    Who supports them? ?

    Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Historic Environment Scotland
    £25,000 16/12/2022
    Explore:HES
    Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Creating Immersive Experiences
    £999,998 01/04/2022
    Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH/X010104/1
    Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Scotland's Rock Art in context: placement, re-placement and engagement
    £41,439 01/04/2022
    Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH/N00745X/1
    Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Eternal Connections
    £9,808 01/04/2022
    Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH/X000370/1
    Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Towards a National Collection Programme Directorate
    £471,363 01/04/2022
    Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH/V000802/1
    Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Eternal Connections
    £13,403 01/02/2022
    Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH/X000370/1
    William Grant Foundation - Stone carving craft fellowship
    £31,042 23/09/2019
    12
    To employ a stone carver for a one-year craft fellowship.
    Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Towards a National Collection Programme Directorate
    £1,803,518 01/04/2019
    Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projectsref=AH/V000802/1
    Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Scotland's Rock Art in context: placement, re-placement and engagement
    £161,388 01/01/2017
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    Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Producing/Consuming 'Romantic Scotland': Exhibitions, Heritage, Nation & the Chinese Market
    £190,928 17/10/2016
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    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 20/08/2015, number: SC045925
    Filing Record
    5 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    Longmore House, Salisbury Place, Edinburgh, EH9 1SH

    Objectives

    (1) Historic Environment Scotland has the general function of investigating, caring for and promoting Scotland?s historic environment. (2) In exercising its general function, Historic Environment Scotland has the following particular functions? (a) identifying and recording the historic environment, (b) understanding and interpreting the historic environment, (c) learning about, and educating others about, the historic environment, (d) protecting and managing the historic environment, (e) conserving and enhancing the historic environment. (3) Historic Environment Scotland also has the function of managing its collections as a national resource for reference, study and research. (4) In exercising that function, Historic Environment Scotland has the following particular functions? (a) preserving, conserving and developing its collections, (b) making the collections accessible to the public and to persons wishing to carry out study and research, (c) exhibiting and interpreting objects in the collections.

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator
    360 Giving

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