Overall GiG Score: -2 ?
Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 0
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • No supporters identified

    DUNDEE HERITAGE 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
    Established: 39 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    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 £452,268 £763,933 £782,597 £124,638 £623,216
    Donations & Legacies £1,028,767 £359,085 £261,345 £1,778,108 £1,527,056
    Other Income £11,105
    Investment Income £2,649 £2,930 £3,911 £1,822 £8,065
    Total income £2,120,767 £1,986,167 £1,946,708 £2,009,135 £3,320,470 £2,831,172
    Charitable activities spending £1,372,271 £1,739,661 £1,858,300 £1,685,332 £2,504,174
    Fundraising costs 13% 19% 18% 2% 27% 10%
    Other spending
    Total spending £1,644,017 £2,124,527 £2,205,123 £1,730,304 £1,894,184 £2,790,144
    Surplus/deficit £476,750 -£138,360 -£258,415 £278,831 £1,426,286 £41,028
    What it does
    • It carries out activities or services itself
    Who it helps
    • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
    Purposes
    • The advancement of education
    • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
    Where it operates
    • One or a few bases or facilities serving people who come from a broad area, main operating location: Dundee City

    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
    Dundee City Council - RRS Discovery Rigging Conservation Project
    £40,000 22/12/2016
    Second part of an award across financial years to contribute to the costs of repairing / replacing rigging on the RRS Discovery, plus repairs to some of the masts
    Dundee City Council - RRS Discovery Rigging Conservation Project
    £40,000 22/12/2016
    First part of an award across financial years to contribute to the costs of repairing / replacing rigging on the RRS Discovery, plus repairs to some of the masts

    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in Scotland on 28/12/1984, number: SC011328
    Filing Record
    5 returns made; AR20: 235 days late,
    Main office

    Discovery Point, Discovery Quay, Dundee, DD2 4XA

    Objectives

    The Trustees shall hold the Trust fund for charitable purposes exclusively. For the purpose of implementing the provisions of Clause 4 hereof, the Trustees shall from time to time and at any time in their uncontrolled discretion, but subject always to the discretionary powers conferred on them under Clause 7 hereof, pay or apply the capital or the income of the Trust fund, in sums of such amount as the Trustees in their absolute discretion may decide, in any one or more or all of the following ways, videlicet:- (a) To or for the benefit of such one or more Charitable Institution or Charitable Institutions as the Trustees in their uncontrolled discretion may from time to time select. or (b) in implementing or assisting to implement any charitable purpose or charitable purposes which the Trustees in their uncontrolled discretion may from time to time by Minute resolve upon.

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator
    360 Giving
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