Charity Details

Scottish Society For Northern Studies

SC010647Registered charity from 01 November 1979

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Charity Information:

Address c/o Department of Scandinavian Studies
University of Edinburgh
50 George Square
Edinburgh

Postcode EH8 9LH

Website www.ssns.org.uk

Regulatory Type Standard

Object:

2. Primarily in a Scottish context, to encourage and advance researchand education in and develop an informed interest and understanding of 'Northern Studies', being academic studies into aspects of the Scandinavian and *related cultures , and in furtherance of these objectives : a. to promote research especially multi- and inter-discip linary research into such studies within universities and similar bodies and amongst the wider community . b. to interest and support university students in such studies with a view to encouraging them to pursue them after graduation . c. to arrange regular conferences and/or public lectures in order to disseminate and encourage new research, the work of the Society and community involvement. d. to produce a regular academic journal 'Northern Studies' and such occasional publications as further promote such studies and the Society. e. to liaise and develop partnerships with and support similar bodies and individuals in the pursuit of such studies in Scotland and elsewhere. f. to encourage other activities to attain these objectives . * 'Related cultures' are notably but not exclusively other Nordic cultures and the Celtic and Scottish cultures . Subject areas include: Scandinavian, Celtic and Scottish History; Language, Dialect and Placenames; Archaeology and Geography; Viking- and Norse-Period Studies; Literature.

Operations:

What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:

1. To advance education in and encourage informed interest and understanding of the academic subject of Northern Studies, being studies into various fields concerned with Scandinavian and related cultures; and in furtherance of that object: 2. To interest university students in such studies with a view to encouraging them to pursue them after graduation. 3. To provide public lectures and publications to disseminate the work of the Society as widely as possible. 4. To do all other acts as will properly attain these objects.

Charity Status: Active

Constitutional Form: Unincorporated association

Constitutional Form Date: 01 Nov 1979

Main Operating Location: City of Edinburgh

Number of Staff: 0

Number of Volunteers: 1-50

Purposes: "the advancement of education", "the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science"

Beneficiaries: "Other defined groups"

Types Of Activity Undertaken: "It does none of these"

Annual Submissions:

Year End	Income	Expenditure	Annual Return Received	Accounts Received	Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
31 Aug 2021	£8,409	£7,784	18 Sept 2021	Yes
31 Aug 2022	£13,507	£11,894	23 Sept 2022	Yes
31 Aug 2023	£12,556	£12,620	31 Oct 2023	Yes
31 Aug 2024	£15,674	£13,325	02 Dec 2024	Yes
31 Aug 2025	£15,602	£14,302	14 Dec 2025	Yes	Not published by OSCR
If an annual return has been received on time (within nine months of the Year End Date), the 'Annual Return Received' box is green . If an annual return is late, the box is red .

Income and Expenditure:

Charity Trustees:

First Name	Last Name
Hannah	Burrows
Seluvaia	Ita
Clare	Downham
Peter	Randall
Janet	Kay
Helen	Robinson
Christian	Cooijmans
Alan	Macniven
Anthony	Hodge
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