Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 0
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: 5 ?

DUTCH SPOTTED SHEEP SOCIETY 

Education programmes, training courses, classes, lectures, seminars & publications about breeding, development & good husbandry of DSS. The advancement of heritage, culture and science through the promotion, encouragement and development of DSS as a breed and their role within the agricultural community in the UK, the ROI & elsewhere; The advancement of animal welfare in relation to DSS.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Established: 7 years

www.dutchspottedsheep.co.uk

secretary@dutchspottedsheep.co.uk

07818 131 242

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UN SDGs
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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
30/04/23£191£98£93n/an/an/an/an/a2
30/04/22£133£99£34n/an/an/an/an/a0
30/04/21£101£42£59n/an/an/an/an/a0
30/04/20£33£11£22n/an/an/an/an/a0
30/04/19£62£60£3n/an/an/an/an/a0
30/04/18£46£43£3£0£0£0n/a00

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Listed activities
  • Animals
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Northern Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Other Defined Groups
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • Unknown number of employees
  • 2 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (11)
Current Trustees appointed

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 10/03/2017, number: 1171992
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Conflicting interests
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Risk management
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
6 returns made; all on time
Main office

Red Brae
Wigtown
Newton Stewart
Wigtownshire
DG8 9DJ

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE ASSOCIATION SHALL BE TO ADVANCE SUCH CHARITABLE PURPOSES (ACCORDING TO THELAW OF ENGLAND AND WALES) AS THE TRUSTEES SEE FIT. IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THEPROMOTION OF AGRICULTURE BY THE ENCOURAGEMENT, PROMOTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE BREEDINGOF DUTCH SPOTTED SHEEP (HEREAFTER CALLED DSS) AND INCLUDES SHEEP KNOWN AS ÔNEDERLANDSBONTE SCHAAPÖ AND THE MAINTENANCE OF THE PURITY OF THE BREED.NOTHING IN THIS CONSTITUTION SHALL AUTHORISE AN APPLICATION OF THE PROPERTY OF THE CIO FOR THEPURPOSES WHICH ARE NOT CHARITABLE IN ACCORDANCE WITH [SECTION 7 OF THE CHARITIES AND TRUSTEEINVESTMENT (SCOTLAND) ACT 2005] AND [SECTION 2 OF THE CHARITIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 2008].

Defined Area of Benefit:

NOT DEFINED

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
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