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Friends of William Soutar Society

Country
Scotland
Charity number
SC039101
Status
Active
Reporting
Up to date Last filed Dec. 18, 2025. Filing history
Registered
Dec. 19, 2007
Legal form
Unincorporated association

Address

Address
3 Grahams's Place
King Street
Perth
PH2 8HZ

Contact

Website
williamsoutar.com
Screenshot of the Friends of William Soutar Society website

Activities

'It carries out activities or services itself'

'the advancement of education','the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science'

The charity is set up to promote the work of William Soutar to the general public in Scotland and beyond, bring his poetry to a new readership, and gain wider recognition of his contribution to the Scots language and its literature. The Friends of William Soutar Society carries out artistic, literary and scholarly activities to support these objects. This includes research, holding talks and lectures, public readings, dramatic performances, visual arts, publishing new anthologies and works, extending schools' curricula and materials, and supporting new creative writing inspired by Soutar and his birthplace.

Beneficiaries: 'People with a particular ethnic or racial origin','Other defined groups','No specific group, or for the benefit of the community'

Objectives: The objects of the society are the advancement of: (a) education (local and national) (b) the arts, heritage, and culture

Geography

Main operating location
Perth And Kinross
Geographical spread
Operations cover all or most of Scotland

Finances

Period end Filed Income Expenditure
March 31, 2025 Dec. 18, 2025On time £0 £9,812
March 31, 2024 Dec. 11, 2024On time £0 £290
March 31, 2023 Jan. 3, 20243 days late £0 £562
March 31, 2022 Jan. 15, 202315 days late £1,000 £256
March 31, 2021 Dec. 30, 2021On time £1,000 £256

Due dates are 9 months after the year end, OSCR's deadline, so they don't allow for any extension OSCR has granted.