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| Period start date | Period start date | Period start date | Period end date | Period end date | Period end date | ||
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| Day | Month | Year | Day | Month | Year | ||
| From | 01 | 07 | 2024 | To | 30 | 06 | 2025 |
Scottish Charity Regulator
Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator
Reference and administration details
Charity name Open Past Other names charity is known by Registered charity number SC047486
Charity’s principal address
121a Inveresk Road, Musselburgh
Postcode EH21 7AU
Names of the charity trustees on date of approval of Trustees’ Annual Report
| James Rocks-Macqueen | Executive Director | ||
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| Jeffery Sanders | |||
| Mark Spanjer | Chair | ||
| Quonya Huff | |||
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Reference and administration details
Names of all other charity trustees during the period, if any, (for example, those who resigned part way through the financial period)
| Name | Name | Dates acted if not for whole year |
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| Structure, governance and management | ||
| Type of governing document Trustee recruitment and appointment |
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| Constitution | ||
| Trustee search by current trustees. | ||
| Objectives and activities | ||
| Charitable purposes Summary of the main activities in relation to these objects |
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| The advancement of education The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science |
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| We help advance people’s knowledge, skills and wellbeing through art, history, heritage, and archaeology. Our typical users experience barriers to in-person education, including those with disabilities, limited funds, or from rural communities, and are often people who struggle to access the resources that many take for granted. |
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Achievements and performance
| Summary of the main achievements of the charity during the financial period |
• Completed editing of the CIDOC conference; • Completed the Cateran Ecomuseum project to help them develop a proposal for a social prescription cultural heritage project; • Filmed the Aerial Archaeology Research Group conference; • Filmed the HENEB heritage day conference in Wrexham; • Began the ‘Different Messages’ video project for the Stranraer Millennium Centre; • Completed filming and editing for Archaeology Scotland’s excavation; • Moved and took on the hosting of Scotland’s Archaeology Strategy website on behalf of HES; • Filmed and live-streamed the archaeological achievement awards in Cardiff; • Filmed and streamed the EAA keynotes in Rome; • Undertook additional development on the Research Frameworks website to improve promotion of stats; • Began the Dumbreck project for North Lanarkshire Council – oral history workshops, school workshops, film, heritage trail – in person and online; • Moved and took on the hosting of Scotland’s Rock Art website; • Have gained the contract to provide support to FAME; • Filmed the CIfA conference in Birmingham; • Streamed and filmed the TAFAC conference; • Streamed and filmed the Scottish Museums Federation Conference; • Hosted an internship through SAGSAH – intern built a text choice your own adventure game, looking at historical dying techniques. |
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Financial review
| Brief statement of the charity’s policy on reserves Details of any deficit Donated facilities and services (if any) |
Enough to cover monthly operating costs. |
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| We has cash based account, so there was a slight deficit at the end of the year <2k but we remain solvent. |
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| n/a |
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Other optional information
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Declaration
The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above. Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees Signature(s) Doug Rocks-Macqueen OSCR will accept digital or typed signatures Full name(s) James Douglas Rocks-Macqueen Position (e.g. Chair) Executive Director Date 30/03/2026
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