# Ray & Diana Harryhausen Foundation

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC001419
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
- **Registered:** April 21, 1986
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC001419


## Contact

- **Address:** Princes Exchange, 1 Earl Grey Street, Edinburgh
- **Postcode:** EH3 9EE
- **Website:** www.rayharryhausen.com



## Activities

**Activities:** 'It carries out activities or services itself'

**Purposes:** 'the advancement of education','the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science','any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes'

**What the charity does:** The Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation was established to hold various items of memorabilia used by Mr Harryhausen or created by him during his career as a Special Effects Artist in the Motion Picture Industry in England and in Hollywood, and to collect items which had influenced Mr Harryhausen in his creation of film stories and characters. The aim is to give a coherent picture of the special effects production method of Model Stop-Motion Animation especially the Dynamation technique (Stop-Motion Photography combined with live action) in the period between the film 'King Kong' and the film 'Clash of the Titans', which was Mr Harryhausen's final full scale film.  The Foundation achieves this through the activities described above.






## Finances

| Period end | Income | Expenditure | Assets | Employees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 31, 2025 | £571506 | £219925 | — | 1 |
| March 31, 2024 | £113941 | £192299 | — | 1 |
| March 31, 2023 | £34321 | £204746 | — | 1 |
| March 31, 2022 | £165434 | £204294 | — | 1 |
| March 31, 2021 | £127145 | £236599 | — | 1 |