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

QUEEN MARGARET UNIVERSITY, EDINBURGH 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from a grant maker
  • 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:

  • There are 23 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
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Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/07/17 31/07/18 31/07/19 31/07/20 31/07/21 31/07/22
Charitable activities £14,864,542 £16,115,095 £16,338,673 £19,856,435 £41,480,407
Donations & Legacies £239,403 £305,246 £339,436 £466,599
Other Income £21,903,294 £23,012,904 £23,702,847 £23,692,588 £6,395,703
Investment Income £26,808 £85,321 £56,223 £14,574 £71,684
Total income £39,152,560 £37,034,047 £39,518,566 £40,437,179 £44,030,196 £48,317,000
Charitable activities spending £46,522 £70,550 £48,483,000
Fundraising costs 1% 1% 1% 1%
Other spending £42,179,176 £45,359,063 £40,912,164 £45,882,242
Total spending £39,925,984 £42,407,116 £45,561,219 £40,912,164 £45,882,242 £48,723,000
Surplus/deficit -£773,424 -£5,373,069 -£6,042,653 -£474,985 -£1,852,046 -£406,000
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Established: 99 years
(114 years as a company)

www.qmu.ac.uk

Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • Colleges and universities
Purposes
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of health
  • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
Where it operates
  • UK and overseas, main operating location: East Lothian
Who it helps
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - PALM-ALT (phase 2): Novel palm fat replacer for the food industry
£643,855 01/03/2021
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10004518
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - PALM-ALT: Novel palm fat replacer for the food industry
£39,384 01/10/2020
Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=81448
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
£1,000 20/09/2018
Third year scholarship for Alice Brown MSc in Art Psychotherapy. Gateway Exchange Trust
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Living with Neurological Conditions
£20,000 29/11/2017
Advancing the knowledge base underpinning the theory and practice of rehabilitation with a particular focus on people living with a neurological condition challenging traditional notions of ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (23)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split
Based on 21/23 persons

Age Range of Directors: 22-72
  • BROWN, Jay
    Appointed: 2023
    Occupation: Students' Union President - Academic Life
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 11/05/1925, number: SC002750
  • Registered at Companies House on 22/11/1909, number: SC007335
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

Queen Margaret University, Queen Margaret University Drive, Musselburgh, East Lothian, EH21 6UU

Objectives

The objects for which the University is established are to provide education and learning of all types, to provide facilities for and encourage and undertake study and research, to encourage the advancement, development and dissemination of knowledge and to encourage and provide facilities for design, development, consultancy and testing.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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