Finance Score: -2

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 0

Multiple Deficits: -2
No PartB

(no info on trustees)

No supporters identified

Overall GiG Score: -2

WILLIAM DAWSON TRUST

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

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

Financial issues to consider:

On several occasions in recent years income has been 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	31/12/23
Total income	£143,001	£144,366	£145,195	£139,946	£138,730	£136,790	£139,953
Total spending	£157,258	£147,935	£159,928	£127,963	£140,622	£184,743	£178,525
Surplus/deficit	-£14,257	-£3,569	-£14,733	£11,983	-£1,892	-£47,953	-£38,572

Established: 151 years

Listed activities

It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations

GiG Classification

Colleges and universities

Purposes

The advancement of education
The advancement of health
The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Where it operates

Operations cover all or most of Scotland, main operating location: City of Edinburgh

Who it helps

Other charities or voluntary bodies

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 17/04/1874, number: SC010662

Filing Record

5 returns made; AR20: 1 days late,

Main office

Brodies LLP, Captial Square, 58 Morrison Street, Edinburgh, EH3 8BP

Objectives

Providing annual bursaries for assisting and encouraging deserving young men and women at the University of Edinburgh, in the prosecution of their education Augmenting the income of such Public Institutions in Edinburgh or Glasgow as my trustees deem most deserving and as have their object the relief, or cure, of bodily disease, or the care maintenance or support of persons afflicted with bodily infirmity

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