OSCR Tannahill Arts and Heritage SCIO Scottish Charity No: SC050454 Annual Report and Financial Statements For the year ended 30 September 2025
Trustee Annual Report
For the year ended 30 September 2025
The trustees have pleasure in presenting their report together with the financial statements for the year ended 30 September 2025.
Reference and Administrative Information
Charity name
Tannahill Arts and Heritage SCIO
Charity no
SC050454
Address
Flat 2/2, 15 School Wynd, Paisley, PA1 2DA
Current Trustees
Harriet Hunter - Chairperson
Thomas McCulloch - Treasurer
Alan Fleming-Baird - Artistic Director
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Structure, Governance and Management Constitution
The Charity is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (a SCIO). It was registered in its current legal form on 11 September 2020. The charity was previously an unincorporated charitable association but changed its legal form to a SCIO. There were no assets to transfer to the SCIO on the 1st October 2020. It has a single tier structure and as such the trustees are members of the charity.
Appointment of trustees
The management committee, which normally meets once a month, are the charity’s trustees. Membership of the management committee is open to all Renfrewshire residents. Trustees are elected at the annual general meeting which is held in September. There must be a minimum of three trustees.
Objectives and Activities
Charitable purposes
The organisation's charitable purposes are the advancement of the arts, heritage and culture through an annual arts festival and associated activities, delivered for residents of Renfrewshire and visitors from further afield.
Activities
The charity delivers an annual arts festival in September and other associated activities throughout the year. The major output of the charity is its annual festival which sees local, national and international artists present work in and around the civic, cultural and heritage buildings of Renfrewshire.
The festival aims to platform and promote artistic talent from Renfrewshire and bring national and international talent to the local authority area for the benefit of residents in Renfrewshire. There is a specific focus on the intangible cultural heritage of Renfrewshire including promoting awareness of some of Renfrewshire's most talented artists such as Robert Tannahill. To level-up opportunities, the charity delivers free or subsidised activities to participants and audience members.
Achievements and Performance
Between 1st October 2023 and 30th September 2024, the trustees took the strategic decision to pause the annual festival for one year in order to reflect on achievements to date and to focus on developing artistic programmes, fundraising campaigns and strategic plans that would address the ongoing cost-of-living crisis and embed sustainability at the core of the charity.
The year ended 30th September 2025 has seen the charity emerge from that strategic pause with a materially stronger organisational foundation. Over this period the trustees have delivered significant progress across three priority areas:
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Organisational structure and governance. The trustees have strengthened the charity’s governance, clarified roles and responsibilities within the management committee and refined the charity’s policies and procedures to support the safe and effective delivery of a multi-venue public festival. This includes updated approaches to safeguarding, financial controls and artistic engagement.
Fundraising capacity. The trustees have developed the charity’s fundraising skills during the year, including building a prospect pipeline of trusts and foundations aligned with the charity’s purposes, producing case-for-support materials and submitting applications to a range of funders. This work has begun to yield results, with awards committed from trusts to support the 2026 festival programme, and further applications in progress at the year end.
Artistic programming and partnerships. The trustees have developed the artistic framework for the recommenced festival, strengthened relationships with local artists, venues and heritage partners in Renfrewshire and confirmed programme contributions from a number of significant artists working in poetry, music, literature and storytelling. The charity’s commitment to platforming Renfrewshire-based artists alongside national work remains central to the programme.
As a result of this focused period of development, the trustees have been able to confirm that the annual festival will recommence in September 2026, with strategic, artistic and financial foundations that are notably more robust than those in place prior to the pause.
Artistic Leadership
Three trustees currently lead the organisation alongside the artistic director, meeting to discuss the artistic programme, fundraising, and strategic plans. They also consult with local residents of Renfrewshire to gather feedback and identify areas where the arts can improve residents' quality of life. This ensures the festival remains relevant and responsive to community needs. This leadership model supports a diverse and inclusive artistic vision, reflective of the local context in which the festival is presented.
Financial Review
Tannahill Arts and Heritage retains total funds of £808 at the year end, held entirely as unrestricted funds. During the year the charity received a restricted grant of £953 from Renfrewshire Council’s Culture, Heritage and Events Fund and applied this together with restricted funds brought forward to the salary of a part-time Artistic Director engaged to lead strategic development work. Total expenditure on Artistic Director fees was £3,600. All restricted funds have been expended in accordance with the purposes for which they were given; the closing unrestricted balance of £808 is held for general charitable purposes including preparatory work for the September 2026 festival.
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Reserves policy
The trustees' policy is to retain a level of unrestricted reserves sufficient to meet the charity's ongoing commitments and to cover any unexpected expenditure between festival delivery periods. As the charity's activity is project-based and concentrated around the annual festival, expenditure is not evenly distributed across the year. Unrestricted reserves at the year end stand at £808. The trustees consider this to be an acceptable level given the committed funding already secured for the 2026 festival programme, the low level of ongoing overheads between festival periods, and continuing fundraising activity. The trustees will continue to monitor the position carefully in view of the challenging fundraising landscape.
Plans for the Future
Following the period of strategic development, the trustees are focused on the successful delivery of the recommenced annual festival in September 2026. The cultural and financial landscape remains challenging in the wake of the pandemic and during the continuing cost-of-living crisis and fundraising from trusts and foundations remains highly competitive. However, the strengthened organisational structure, increased fundraising capacity and clarified artistic vision developed during the year leave the charity well positioned to deliver a high-quality festival in September 2026 and to build toward a sustainable annual programme thereafter. Further grant income has already been secured for the 2026 festival programme and will be recognised in the next financial year.
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Statement of Receipts and Payments for the year ended 30[th ] September 2025
| Unrestricted Funds |
Restricted Funds |
Year Ended 2025 |
Year Ended 2024 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Receipts | ||||
| Donations | - | - | - | - |
| Grants | - | 953 | 953 | - |
| Income from Activities | - | - | - | - |
| Total receipts | - | 953 | 953 | - |
| Payments | ||||
| Cost of charitable activities | 1,049 | 2,551 | 3,600 | - |
| Total payments | 1,049 | 2,551 | 3,600 | - |
| Surplus/(Deficit) for the year | (1,049) | (1,598) | (2,647) | - |
| Transfers between funds | - | - | - | - |
| Net movement in funds | (1,049) | (1,598) | (2,647) | - |
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Statement of Balances – As at 30th September 2025
| Unrestricted Funds |
Restricted Funds |
Total 2025 |
Total 2024 |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opening cash at bank and in hand | 1,857 | 1,598 | 3,455 | 3,455 |
| Surplus/(Deficit) for the year | (1,049) | (1,598) | (2,647) | - |
| Closing cash at bank and in hand | 808 | - | 808 | 3,455 |
| Bank and Cash Balances | ||||
| Bank deposit account | 193 | - | 193 | 3,455 |
| Cash in hand | 615 | - | 615 | - |
| 808 | - | 808 | 3,455 |
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Notes to the accounts – for the year ended 30th September 2025
1 Basis of accounting
These accounts have been prepared on the Receipts and Payments basis in accordance with the Charities & Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 and the Charities Accounts (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (as amended).
2 Nature and purpose of funds
Unrestricted funds are those that may be used at the discretion of the trustees in furtherance of the objects of the charity.
Restricted funds may only be used for specific purposes. Restrictions arise when specified by the donor or when funds are raised for specific purposes.
3 Donations
| Unrestricted Funds |
Restricted Funds |
Total 2025 |
Total 2024 |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | - | - | - | |
| - | - | - | - | |
| 4 Grants received | ||||
| Unrestricted Funds |
Restricted Funds |
Total 2025 |
Total 2024 |
|
| Culture, Heritage and Events Fund (Renfrewshire Council) |
- | 953 | 953 | - |
| - | 953 | 953 | - |
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5 Cost of charitable activities - for the year ended 30th September 2025
| Unrestricted Funds |
Restricted Funds |
Total 2025 |
Total 2024 |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artist fees | - | - | - | - |
| Artistic Director Fees | 1,049 | 2,551 | 3,600 | - |
| Venue/ Equipment | - | - | - | - |
| Marketing | - | - | - | - |
| Hospitality | - | - | - | - |
| Travel | - | - | - | - |
| 1,049 | 2,551 | 3,600 | - |
6 Transactions with Trustees
No trustee received any remuneration during the year. The charity engaged a part-time Artistic Director (fees of £3,600); the individual concerned was not a trustee at any point during the financial year.
Name: Mr Thomas McCulloch.
Signature:
The Treasurer
Flat 6, 15 School Wynd, Paisley, Renfrewshire, PA1 2DA
Date: 17/06/2026
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