Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: -5
Support Score: 0
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • All female board: -3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: -8 ?

CRANLEY SCHOOL LTD 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is completely female
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/08/17 31/08/18 31/08/19 31/08/20 31/08/21 31/08/22
Total income £9,001 £8,368 £9,370 £9,022 £7,272 £6,805
Total spending £10,815 £15,898 £21,891 £16,146 £28,853 £27,422
Surplus/deficit -£1,814 -£7,530 -£12,521 -£7,124 -£21,581 -£20,617
Established: 54 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
GiG Classification
  • School support organisations
Purposes
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
  • Any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes
Where it operates
  • More than one local authority area in Scotland, 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?

Directors (5)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 71-86
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 10/02/1970, number: SC010357
  • Registered at Companies House on 31/12/1969, number: SC047152
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

, EH3 7JY

Objectives

The objects for which the Association is established are: (A) To establish a beneficial trust to provide for and maintain a school at Cranley School at 16 Spylaw Road and 42 Colinton, Road, Edinburgh with a comprehensive education for children of both sexes as day or boarding students, and to purchase or acquire premises and land for such business, and to equip, maintain and otherwise provide dining, recreational scholastical and sporting facilities necessary for the further educational advancement of such children. (B) To establish and maintain at the said premises and as an independent object to establish or acquire as a going concern and carry on or manage elsewhere any subsidiary affiliated or other schools for the education of girls and boys either in connection with the above mentioned school or as independent schools and to supply to the pupils general instruction of the highest class together with physical, moral and religious training and so that each school shall be carried on as an educational charity. (c) To carry on any school acquired by the Association as Educational Charities and to use and apply for the purpose all monies and properties coming to it.

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