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

FRIENDS OF ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

Analysis by Giving is Great

Financial issues to consider:

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

Financial Data

Income & Spending ?

Period ending	31/12/17	31/12/18	31/12/19	31/12/20	31/12/21	31/12/22
Total income	£21,819	£24,940	£24,761	£72,043	£48,962	£22,366
Total spending	£28,054	£25,483	£35,528	£8,325	£79,907	£14,162
Surplus/deficit	-£6,235	-£543	-£10,767	£63,718	-£30,945	£8,204

Established: 19 years

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Listed activities

It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations

GiG Classification

Libraries

Purposes

The advancement of education

Where it operates

Aberdeen

Who it helps

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 26/01/2005, number: SC009009

Filing Record

5 returns made; all on time

Main office

University Of Aberdeen, The Sir Duncan Rice Library, Bedford Road, Aberdeen, AB24 3AA

Objectives

The objects of the society shall be:- (a) to encourage gifts of books, prints, manuscripts and other items of interest to Aberdeen University Library ('the Library') and donations of money. (b) to provide funds from which to acquire for the Library rare and valuable books and other items, such as Aberdeen University might not be able to purchase from its own resources. (c) to promote interest in the Library, whether by organising, or providing funds to the Library for the purpose of organising exhibitions, lectures and publications or cataloguing or conserving material held by the Library etc. and (d) to make funds available to the Aberdeen University Development Trust to help fund (1) the building and equipping of exhibition areas within the Library, (2) providing research facilities for scholars studying the Library's special collections and (3) providing other such facilities which promote the Library and its use.