Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 0
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • No supporters identified
    Overall GiG Score: 3 ?

    DEAN CEMETERY TRUST LTD 

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
    • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
    Financial Data
    Income & Spending ?
    Period ending 05/04/18 05/04/19 05/04/20 05/04/21 05/04/22 05/04/23
    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
    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
    Surplus/deficit £86,938 -£19,943 £27,915 £46,269 £70,820 -£4,073
    Established: 33 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    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?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Legal constitution
    Filing Record
    5 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    4 Queens Crescent, Falkirk, FK1 5JL

    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.

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator
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