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Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 5
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

SCOTTISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA LTD

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/03/18 31/03/19 31/03/20 31/03/21 31/03/22 31/03/23 31/03/24
Charitable activities £1,154,268 £1,402,554 £1,437,685 £67,061 £1,461,113 £1,285,222
Donations & Legacies £3,017,223 £3,241,275 £3,819,375 £3,444,779 £3,388,622
Other Income
Investment Income £14,656 £19,453 £21,735 £14,850 £26,892 £42,644
Total income £4,199,683 £4,672,174 £5,288,110 £3,527,851 £4,025,245 £4,593,493 £4,723,343
Charitable activities spending £4,494,463 £4,809,287 £5,079,921 £2,610,517 £5,493,164 £5,359,851
Fundraising costs 5% 4% 4% 5% 5% 4% 6%
Other spending
Total spending £4,704,534 £5,003,300 £5,313,096 £2,791,892 £4,236,312 £5,670,761 £5,646,743
Surplus/deficit -£504,851 -£331,126 -£24,986 £735,959 -£211,067 -£1,077,268 -£923,400
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Established: 44 years

www.sco.org.uk

Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
Purposes
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of citizenship or community development
  • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
Where it operates
  • UK and overseas, main operating location: City of Edinburgh
Who it helps
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Garfield Weston Foundation£15,000
Esmee Fairbairn£10,000
Foundation Scotland£4,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Esmee Fairbairn - TASK to Scottish Chamber Orchestra Limited
£10,000 06/06/2024
TASK fund donation towards the Chorus Development Programme
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 06/11/2023
SCO in Craigmillar
Foundation Scotland - Seen and Heard, Craigmillar
£2,000 26/06/2023
Towards 'Seen and Heard': Part of SCO in Craigmillar. From the Cockaigne Fund.
Foundation Scotland - Orchestra in Residence at the University of St Andrews 2022-23
£2,000 20/07/2022
7
To cover the cost of running a programme of activity
Robertson Trust - Towards the running costs of the Wester Hailes Community Residency project.
£25,000 19/09/2017
Towards the running costs of the Wester Hailes Community Residency project.
Robertson Trust - The Rattray Primary School Residency
£20,000 31/10/2015
The Rattray Primary School Residency

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (10)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 36-75
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 04/06/1981, number: SC015039
  • Registered at Companies House on 04/06/1981, number: SC075079
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

4 Royal Terrace, Edinburgh, EH7 5AB

Objectives

The objects for which the Company is established are the advancement of education by the cultivation and improvement of public taste in music, opera, ballet and other fine arts in Scotland and elsewhere and for this principal purpose.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving

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