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Stranraer and Galloway Visual Arts Society

SC045903Registered charity from 14 August 2015
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Charity Information Operations Annual Submissions Income and Expenditure Charity Trustees
Charity Information:
The Name the Charity is Known By Sea Pyot Arts
Address St Colmans
The Grove
Stranraer
Postcode DG9 0JA
Website No Link Provided
Regulatory Type Standard
Object:
4.1 The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science. The aim of the society will be to use the visual arts to promote the benefits and social welfare of the inhabitants within Stranraer and that part of Dumfries and Galloway known as Galloway and Ballantrae, being the post code areas DG8, DG9, and KA26, without distinction with regard to age, disability, sex, sexuality, political, religious, or other opinions by foreseeing positive links with the local statutory authorities, voluntary organisations and local people. 4.1.1 To encourage, support and promote the Visual Arts and Creative Industries including painting, sculpture, photography, ceramics, woodworking, weaving and textile design, film making and other areas of original visual artistic endeavour with a view to the active involvement of local communities within the geographic area designated above. 4.1.2 To seek to support and encourage community initiative within Stranraer and Galloway area by way of active involvement in visual arts. 4.1.3 To organise exhibitions, provide courses and lectures, and facilitate all appropriate activities relevant to the Society's aims at the discretion of the Management Committee. 4.2 The advancement of Education. We will do this in a participatory, collaborative, inclusive way. 4.3 The provision of recreational facilities or the organisation of recreational activities with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended.
Operations:
What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:
Stranraer and Galloway Visual Arts Society, was set up with the main aim of making ‘art’ accessible to all, regardless of age, ability or experience, or any other such distinctions. It also hoped to facilitate opportunities for amateur and professional artists to exhibit work in the area with little ‘gate-keeping’. D&G Council have responsibility for the Wigtown Educational Trust Art Collection (WET) and have previously suggested selling off parts of it. This did not happen due to strong public protest, so the group felt it should become involved in curating the collection and using it for its original purpose rather than it be held in storage.. To meet the above aims, the group curate 2/3 annual exhibitions, enhancing opportunities for work to be seen by the public, hold workshops and demonstrations and have donated contemporary work to the WET collection. Membership is free and to date all activities have been free of charge thus removing the barrier of financial hardship.
Charity Status: Active
Constitutional Form: SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
Constitutional Form Date: 14 Aug 2015
Main Operating Location: Dumfries And Galloway
Number of Staff: 0
Number of Volunteers: 1-50
Purposes: "the advancement of education", "the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science", "the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended"
Beneficiaries: "No specific group, or for the benefit of the community"
Types Of Activity Undertaken: "It carries out activities or services itself"
Annual Submissions:
Year End Income Expenditure Annual Return Received Accounts Received Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
31 Aug 2021 £0 £157 14 Jun 2022 Yes
31 Aug 2022 £1,867 £1,867 01 May 2023 Yes
31 Aug 2023 £1,578 £3,916 30 Apr 2024 Yes
31 Aug 2024 £3,989 £2,570 13 May 2025 Yes
31 Aug 2025 £7,951 £5,861 28 Apr 2026 Yes Download
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
James Watt McLean
Fiona Hildrew
Vivian Delf
Maggi MACLEOD
Robert Wallace Dabner
Jean Ross
Jeni Grover
Colin MACLEOD
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