Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -11
Support Score: 0
  • No PartB
  • 2 Trustees: -2
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Static board: -3
  • All male board: -3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: -11 ?

EDINBURGH STEINER SCHOOL TRUST LIMITED 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 2 trustees
  • The Board is completely male
  • The Board composition appears to be rather static and has little diversity in terms of age
Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/07/17 31/07/18 31/07/19 31/07/20 31/07/21 31/07/22 31/07/23
Charitable activities £1,962,330 £1,883,982 £1,857,189 £1,853,158 £2,366,317 £2,594,236
Donations & Legacies £15,517 £17,323 £71,220 £36,054
Other Income £135,710 £70,470
Investment Income £3,828 £2,710 £2,414 £784 £2,837 £4,759
Total income £1,814,370 £2,050,026 £1,962,847 £2,122,702 £1,989,494 £2,425,363 £2,633,246
Charitable activities spending £1,904,984 £1,988,476 £1,997,935 £2,064,016 £2,321,737 £2,712,853
Fundraising costs 1% 0% 1% 1%
Other spending
Total spending £1,839,838 £1,914,935 £1,998,903 £2,009,847 £2,064,016 £2,321,737 £2,712,853
Surplus/deficit -£25,468 £135,091 -£36,056 £112,855 -£74,522 £103,626 -£79,607
Established: 79 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • School support organisations
Purposes
  • The advancement of education
Where it operates
  • UK and overseas, main operating location: City of Edinburgh
Who it helps
  • Children or young people

Who supports them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Directors (2)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 37-48
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 04/09/1945, number: SC002109
  • Registered at Companies House on 01/09/1947, number: SC025744
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

, EH10 5BR

Objectives

3.1 The objects of the Charity are to advance education. 3.2 Without prejudice to the generality of article 3.1, the Charity may, amongst others, seek: 3.2.1 To carry on in Edinburgh and develop a school or college (for boarders or for day scholars or for both) having for its main objects the advancement of education of and the communication of instruction to children in accordance with the principles enunciated by the late Dr Rudolf Steiner of Dornach, near the City of Basle in Switzerland. 3.2.2 To establish, equip and conduct and co-operate in establishing, equipping and conducting in such places as the charity shall from time to time determine such schools, classes, lectureships and other means of instruction as the charity shall deem expedient with a view to communication of instruction or the advancement of education in accordance with the aforesaid principles. 3.2.3 To grant and establish bursaries and scholarships and to make payments towards the expenses of students and to grant prizes or take any other action designed to promote education and instruction in accordance with the foresaid principles as the charity may from time to time deem conducive to the furtherance of its objects. 3.2.4 To publish and pay the cost of publishing literature which the charity may regard as conducive to education or the communication of instruction in accordance with the principles aforementioned and to contribute to and to promote such literature and to contribute towards the provision of a library or libraries designed to that end. and 3.2.5 To generally promote education and study and communication of instruction by such means as may from time to time be deemed by the charity to be expedient and conducive of the objects above mentioned or any of them.

Data Sources

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