Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: -7

Support Score: 0

No PartB

Only 3 Trustees: -2
Narrow trustee age band: -2
All male board: -3

No supporters identified

Overall GiG Score: -7

DEAN CEMETERY TRUST LTD

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are only 3 trustees
The Board is completely male
The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial Data

Income & Spending ?

Period ending	05/04/18	05/04/19	05/04/20	05/04/21	05/04/22	05/04/23	05/04/24
Charitable activities	£166,039	£149,125	£141,186	£162,819	£197,192	£191,982
Donations & Legacies
Other Income	£969		£1,065	£360	£17,091	£773
Investment Income	£111,735	£118,880	£126,162	£88,063	£100,285	£122,344
Total income	£291,738	£281,205	£281,649	£260,196	£320,568	£321,899	£412,616
Charitable activities spending	£185,714	£282,664	£233,057	£197,044	£233,090	£309,259
Fundraising costs	11%	11%	13%	10%	8%	8%
Other spending
Total spending	£204,800	£301,148	£253,734	£213,927	£249,748	£325,972	£273,983
Surplus/deficit	£86,938	-£19,943	£27,915	£46,269	£70,820	-£4,073	£138,633

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Established: 33 years
(66 years as a company)

www.deancemetery.org.uk

Listed activities

It carries out activities or services itself

GiG Classification

Museums, parks, historical sites

Purposes

The advancement of health
The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science

Where it operates

Operations cover all or most of Scotland, main operating location: City of Edinburgh

Who it helps

No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Who supports them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Directors (3)

Current Directors appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 46-53

FORBES, Duncan John
Appointed: 2022
Occupation: Business Consultant

GOURLAY, Duncan James
Appointed: 2017
Occupation: Assoc. Director Weatherby Bank

MCEWAN, Gavin Graham Robert
Appointed: 2015
Occupation: Writer To The Signet

Legal constitution

Charity registered in Scotland on 01/01/1992, number: SC001889
Registered at Companies House on 28/08/1958, number: SC033307

Filing Record

5 returns made; all on time

Main office

2 Wallace Brae Gardens, Reddingmuirhead, Falkirk, FK2 0GA

Objectives

The objects of the Trust are the advancement of health, and the advancement of arts, heritage, culture and science. In furtherance of the foregoing, the Trust will: (a) promote the conservation of the Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh and its monuments and buildings insofar as practicable, its flora and fauna, and the beauty of their setting, for the benefit of the local and national interest. (b) cause the cemetery or such parts as may be available to be operated as a public burial ground. (c) secure the repair, restoration and preservation of the cemetery, its monuments and buildings and other artefacts, and their setting, for public benefit, and (d) promote such similar charitable purposes, objects or institutions in such proportions and manner as the Directors shall think fit. The expressions ‘charitable purpose’ or ‘charitable object’ shall mean a charitable purpose under section 7 of the 2005 Act which is also regarded as a charitable purpose in relation to the application of the Taxes Acts and a ‘charitable institution’ shall mean a charity in terms of the 2005 Act which is also regarded as a charity in relation to the application of the Taxes Acts, or a charity under the law of any other jurisdiction which is also regarded as a charity in relation to the application of the Taxes Acts, provided that nothing in these Articles shall authorise an application of the property of the Company other than in furtherance of a charitable purpose.

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