# The Lorimer Society (Incorporating the Hew Lorimer Trust)

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC027135
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)
- **Registered:** Oct. 8, 1997
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC027135


## Contact

- **Address:** The Lodge House, 301 Albert Drive, Glasgow
- **Postcode:** G41 5RP
- **Website:** lorimeresociety.org



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals&#x27;,&#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science&#x27;

**What the charity does:** We promote the achievements of Hew Lorimer (and his wider family as a family of the Arts), to locate their works and existing archives so as to develop and maintain a comprehensive record. We encourage excellence in architecture, fine art, stone carving, letter cutting, sculpture, iconography and the decorative arts. We recognise the interrelatedness of the arts and to inspire the work of living architects, painters, sculptors, musicians, poets and other artists and craftspeople. We have set up a permanent exhibition of Hew Lorimer&#x27;s work, maintained an archive now at the National Library of Scotland, organised a retrospective exhibition of the paintings of JH Lorimer and are now focusing upon the Lorimer Women. We hold lectures, concerts and educational visits to achieve our aims, and raise funds for the running costs of the Society and the fulfilment of these aims.

**Beneficiaries:** &#x27;No specific group, or for the benefit of the community&#x27;

**Objectives:** The Company&#x27;s object is to advance the education of the public about the life and work of Hew Lorimer and as a means of achieving such an object:  (a) To preserve and promote the work of Hew Lorimer  (b) To form a full archive of his life and work  (c) To foster excellence in stone carving, letter cutting and sculpture and iconography  (d) To recognise, as Hew Lorimer did, the interrelatedness of the arts, by fostering the work of living painters, sculptors, musicians, poets and other artists and craftspeople in Scotland





## Geography

- **Main operating location:** Glasgow City
- **Geographical spread:** More than one local authority area in Scotland







