Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 0
  • Volatile income: -3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly male board: -1
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: 2 ?

HEN HARRIER ACTION 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly male

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile recently
Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 28/02/21 28/02/22 28/02/23
Total income £11,752 £24,571 £7,582
Total spending £3,534 £11,397 £4,812
Surplus/deficit £8,218 £13,174 £2,770
Established: 4 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
GiG Classification
  • Animal sanctuaries and shelters
Purposes
  • The advancement of environmental protection or improvement
Where it operates
  • Scotland and other parts of the UK, main operating location: City of Edinburgh
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?

Directors (6)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split
Based on 5/6 persons

Age Range of Directors: 19-78
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 11/02/2020, number: SC049943
  • Registered at Companies House on 03/02/2020, number: SC653279
Filing Record
2 returns made; all on time
Main office

, PH6 2NQ

Objectives

4 The company's objects are: (1) to promote conservation of the hen harrier (Circus Cyaneus), in particular its protection from illegal persecution. The hen harrier is a red-listed Bird of Conservation Concern. (2) alongside and in support of its principle objective: to promote the conservation and better protection of other raptors threatened by illegal persecution. to promote biodiversity in the areas, particularly the uplands, where hen harriers and other raptors are found. to raise awareness of activities in such areas which are damaging to the hen harrier, to raptors and other animals or to the environment more generally. and to increase public awareness of wildlife crime and its prevention. (3) thereby to bring wider benefit to the environment, to wildlife and to public enjoyment of nature, especially in the uplands.

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