Finance Score: 1

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 5

Multiple Deficits: -2
Fundraising costs low: +3
No PartB

(no info on trustees)

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 6

UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised

Financial issues to consider:

On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Financial Data

Income & Spending ?

Period ending	31/07/17	31/07/18	31/07/19	31/07/20	31/07/21	31/07/22
Charitable activities		£151,093,000	£158,147,000	£155,801,000	£169,267,000	£191,773,000
Donations & Legacies		£83,666,000	£85,834,000	£87,436,000	£96,961,000
Other Income		£16,425,000	£1,034,000		£51,176,000	£36,869,000
Investment Income		£986,000	£1,104,000	£709,000	£521,000	£483,000
Total income	£261,344,000	£263,059,000	£257,387,000	£253,343,000	£327,398,000	£328,861,000
Charitable activities spending		£255,125,000	£262,424,000	£260,424,000	£268,906,000	£293,491,000
Fundraising costs	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%
Other spending		£332,000	£56,394,000	£283,000	£393,000	£52,102,000
Total spending	£251,961,000	£256,017,000	£319,498,000	£261,579,000	£269,937,000	£346,334,000
Surplus/deficit	£9,383,000	£7,042,000	-£62,111,000	-£8,236,000	£57,461,000	-£17,473,000

Established: 108 years

www.dundee.ac.uk

Listed activities

It carries out activities or services itself

GiG Classification

Colleges and universities

Purposes

The advancement of education

Where it operates

More than one local authority area in Scotland, main operating location: Dundee City

Who it helps

No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

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
National Lottery Community Fund - Playful Gardens
£9,998	24/05/2023	This project will be held over the school summer holidays and will provided activities delivered by a host of local charitable and creative organisations.
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - UKRI COVID19 Doctoral Funding University of Dundee
£96,639	01/04/2021	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/W502844/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - High-resolution structure, function, and anti-viral inhibition of the SARS-CoV2 E protein ion channel
£503,139	08/02/2021	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=BB/V01997X/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Trajectories of Conflict: The Dynamics of Argumentation in the UN Security Council
£283,554	11/01/2021	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH/V003305/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Police Accountability - towards international standards (POLARCS)
£486,313	01/01/2021	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES/V013564/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Dynamic regulation of chromatin loops by cohesins and CTCF in real time: physiology and pathology
£496,277	01/01/2021	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR/T046880/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Visual Research in Creative Collections & Economies
£241,374	01/12/2020	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH/V012584/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Dissecting the coupling of cell polarity and the stem cell cycle by chemical genetics
£427,881	01/12/2020	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=BB/V001353/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Elucidating molecular determinants of Trypanosoma cruzi persisters.
£727,295	01/12/2020	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR/T030283/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Comprehensive Tool Development for the National Covid-19 Effort
£201,620	18/10/2020	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR/V03541X/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Defining mechanisms and function of protein UFMylation
£657,310	01/09/2020	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=BB/T008172/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Reading between the lines: Translating light from science to art
£17,950	02/08/2020	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ST/V002058/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - COVID 19 Grant Extension Allocation University of Dundee
£441,998	01/07/2020	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP/V520871/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - New Zealand partnering award: Pathogenesis and effector delivery in Phytophthora infections of woody host plants
£48,572	03/05/2020	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=BB/T020164/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Transport Infrastructure Efficiency Strategy Living labs
£264,852	01/05/2020	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=106171
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - University of Dundee and Moor Instruments Limited
£129,683	01/05/2020	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=511875
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Defining the oxidative stress-related mechanisms by which activation of the transcription factor Nrf2 arrests and resolves liver fibrosis
£1,959,079	01/04/2020	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR/T014644/1
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Precision medicine in diabetes: Pharmacogenetic studies of large randomised controlled trials of diabetes therapies
£338,362	01/04/2020	Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR/T032014/1
Foundation Scotland - International Student Buddy Group trips
£2,872	21/08/2018 8	The grant will cover the cost of bus hires, ticket costs for various historical and cultural venues, and casual staff to enable the University to provide a series of bus trips to a number of places ....more The grant will cover the cost of bus hires, ticket costs for various historical and cultural venues, and casual staff to enable the University to provide a series of bus trips to a number of places of historical and cultural interest for groups of mixed i
Garfield Weston Foundation - Major Grants award
£200,000	16/11/2017	Centre for Education and Public Engagement in Anatomy

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How is it governed?

Trustees

Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

Legal constitution

Charity registered in Scotland on 13/11/1916, number: SC015096

Filing Record

5 returns made; all on time

Main office

149 Nethergate, Dundee, DD1 4HN

Objectives

To provide instruction in such branches of learning as the (A) University may think fit, whether for members of the University or for others, and to make provision for research and for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge in such a manner as the University may determine. (B) To prescribe in the Ordinances of the University the conditions under which any person may be admitted as a student of the University or to any particular course of study provided by the University. (C) To grant, under conditions laid down in the Statutes or Ordinances, a degree, diploma, certificate or other academic award to any person who shall have pursued a course of study approved by the University and shall have passed the examinations or other tests prescribed by the University. The advancement of education.

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