Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 8
Support Score: 8
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 19 ?

SCOTTISH ASSOCIATION FOR MARINE SCIENCE

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years, despite a decline more recently
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why are there 15 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12?

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/03/18 31/03/19 31/03/20 31/03/21 31/03/22 31/03/23
Charitable activities £10,046,000 £9,307,000 £8,273,000 £9,522,000
Donations & Legacies
Other Income £1,211,000
Investment Income £468,000
Total income £13,280,000 £10,451 £10,997,000 £10,350,000 £9,384,000 £10,315,000
Charitable activities spending £12,435,000 £11,470,000 £10,303,000 £10,935,000
Fundraising costs 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Other spending
Total spending £12,447,000 £11,355 £11,481,000 £10,310,000 £10,212,000 £10,950,000
Surplus/deficit £833,000 -£904 -£484,000 £40,000 -£828,000 -£635,000
Established: 94 years
(110 years as a company)
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • Museums, parks, historical sites
Purposes
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
  • The advancement of environmental protection or improvement
Where it operates
  • UK and overseas, main operating location: Argyll And Bute
Who it helps
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy£2,041,751
Co-Op Foundation£203,765
Scottish Government£100,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Op Foundation - Scottish Association for Marine Science CIF project
£203,765 15/06/2023
SAMS is looking at how various forms of marine waste, including shellfish and mollusc shells and seaweed can be repurposed to create new fertilisers
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - AGRI-SATT - Agricultural Growth using Remote-sensing, IoT, Satellite and Autonomous Telecommand Technology
£616,439 01/04/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=48248
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - SUPPORTING EUROPEAN COASTAL REGIONS IN THEIR TRANSITION TO A SUSTAINABLE BLUE BIOECONOMY
£5,586 01/04/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10042446
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Seabed Mining And Resilience To EXperimental impact
£61,044 01/04/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/T002867/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Securing reactive nitrogen for high value food and feed production in integrated bioremediation and energy generation systems
£150,508 01/04/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR/S032991/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Inuit Qaujisarnirmut Pilirijjutit on Arctic Shipping Risks in Inuit Nunangat
£82,872 01/04/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/X002632/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Chronobiology of changing Arctic Sea Ecosystems (CHASE)
£17,107 01/04/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/R012733/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Malaysian HABreports: Harmful algal bloom and biotoxin early warning to meet the ODA challenge of providing resilient aquaculture resources in Asia
£25,258 01/04/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=BB/T011661/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Optimising strain selection and developing a biorefinery for industrially relevant micro-algae
£25,873 01/04/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=BB/T50872X/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - MPA Europe
£1,769 01/04/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10069750
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - The Gulf Stream control of the North Atlantic carbon sink
£12,294 01/04/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/W009536/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Application of novel 3D imaging techniques to quantify biomass and secondary production associated with North Sea artificial structures.
£297,141 01/04/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/T010665/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - The past, present and future of snow algae in Antarctica: a threatened terrestrial ecosystem
£200,275 01/04/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/V000764/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - UK-OSNAP-Decade: 10 years of observing and understanding the overturning circulation in the subpolar North Atlantic (2014-2024)
£352,402 01/04/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/T008938/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - EIT Food Activities
£6,976 01/01/2022
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10033057
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Seabed Mining And Resilience To EXperimental impact
£43,769 01/06/2021
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/T002867/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Application of novel 3D imaging techniques to quantify biomass and secondary production associated with North Sea artificial structures.
£142,438 01/05/2021
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/T010665/1
Scottish Government - Scottish Association For Marine Science
£100,000 16/04/2020
Detailed description not provided.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (15)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 46-72
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 29/06/1930, number: SC009206
  • Registered at Companies House on 18/12/1914, number: SC009292
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

Dunbeg, Oban, Argyll, PA37 1QA

Objectives

The objects for which the Association is established are:- (a) To take over the whole of the assets and liabilities of the unincorporated association, founded in 1894, constituted on 26th November, 1897, and consecutively carried on since the latter date, first, under the name of THE MILLPORT MARINE BIOLOGICAL STATION, second, under the name of THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND, this style or title having been adopted at a meeting of the Association held on 15th January, 1901 and third, under the name Scottish Marine Biological Association, this style or title having been adopted at a meeting of the Association held on 18 December 1914. and toenter into such agreements and to make, do and execute all such acts, deeds or things as maybe necessary for the purpose of taking over all such assets and liabilities or any part thereof.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving

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