Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 0

Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

(no info on trustees)

No supporters identified

Overall GiG Score: -5

DARWIN TRUST OF EDINBURGH

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period

Financial issues to consider:

Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

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
Donations & Legacies	£1,567,202	£1,093,105
Other Income
Investment Income	£2,076,871	£2,012,368	£2,553,567	£2,016,553		£1,986,727
Total income	£3,644,073	£3,105,473	£2,553,567	£2,016,553	£1,919,014	£1,986,727
Charitable activities spending	£2,853,583	£2,908,629	£3,275,069	£3,566,040		£4,203,518
Fundraising costs	33%	42%	INF%	INF%	15%	INF%
Other spending
Total spending	£3,369,120	£3,365,148	£3,540,187	£3,895,311	£4,371,456	£4,455,548
Surplus/deficit	£274,953	-£259,675	-£986,620	-£1,878,758	-£2,452,442	-£2,468,821

Established: 40 years

darwintrust.bio.ed.ac.uk

Listed activities

It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations

GiG Classification

Colleges and universities

Purposes

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

Where it operates

UK and overseas, main operating location: City of Edinburgh

Who it helps

Children or young people
Other defined groups

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

Charity registered in Scotland on 19/04/1984, number: SC006400

Filing Record

5 returns made; all on time

Main office

, EH9 3FH

Objectives

To promote education and research in the Natural Sciences as such term as may be defined by the Secretary to the Royal Society but in particular for education and research in Molecular Biology and without restricting that general purpose to apply such funds and property for the purposes of maintaining, improving and developing the facilities for the teaching of undergraduates, for post graduate work, for research or for any other purpose in the development of the Natural Sciences and inparticular Molecular Biology in the University of Edinburgh or elsewhere all subjects as appropriate to the granting of all necessary consents of the Senatus Academicus, University Court, Dean of the Faculty of Science and the then Professor of Molecular Biology in the University of Edinburgh or similar bodies in any other University.