Finance Score: -2

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 3

Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
Fundraising costs low: +3
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +3

Overall GiG Score: 10

SCOTTISH NATIONAL MEMORIAL TO DAVID LIVINGSTONE TRUST

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from a grant maker
Fundraising costs are unusually 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:

Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years 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
Charitable activities		£1,585,687	£2,556,342			£86,243
Donations & Legacies		£28,793	£32,983	£2,154,028
Other Income			£4,194
Investment Income		£221	£200	£168		£458
Total income	£747,657	£1,614,701	£2,593,719	£2,154,196	£1,377,822	£1,028,333
Charitable activities spending		£1,101,200	£2,889,871			£1,287,588
Fundraising costs					2%	5%
Other spending				£2,167,349
Total spending	£348,833	£1,101,200	£2,889,871	£2,167,349	£944,898	£1,337,412
Surplus/deficit	£398,824	£513,501	-£296,152	-£13,153	£432,924	-£309,079

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Established: 93 years

Listed activities

It carries out activities or services itself

GiG Classification

Poverty relief

Purposes

The advancement of education
The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science

Where it operates

South Lanarkshire

Who it helps

Other defined groups

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 Heritage Fund - Grant to The Scottish National Memorial to David Livingstone Trust
£141,800	13/08/2020	COVID19 The Scottish National Memorial to David Livingstone Trust
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Scottish National Memorial to David Livingstone Trust
£68,000	29/01/2019	The David Livingstone Trust - Securing our future through attracting visitors and volunteers
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Scottish National Memorial to David Livingstone Trust
£39,200	26/02/2018	Securing Livingstone's Legacy - A sustainable future for The David Livingstone Trust
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to The Scottish National Memorial to David Livingstone Trust
£6,615,100	19/05/2015	David Livingstone's Birthplace

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (9)

Current Directors appointed

Gender Split

Based on 8/9 persons

Age Range of Directors: 44-71

ALLEN, Stephen Charles
Appointed: 2023
Occupation: Interim Director

BRUCE, Isabel Fleming
Appointed: 2013
Occupation: Consultant

COOPER, Margaret Boyd, Provost
Appointed: 2022
Occupation: Provost Councillor

HAUGHEY, Susan, Lady
Appointed: 2018
Occupation: Lord Lieutenant Of Lanark

MATEMBA, Yonah, Dr
Appointed: 2020
Occupation: Lecturer

MURDOCH, Stewart Macleod
Appointed: 2022
Occupation: Retired

SIMPSON, Kathryn Caroline Susan, Dr
Appointed: 2020
Occupation: Consultancy

WALKER, Allan Graeme
Appointed: 2012
Occupation: Naturalist

WILSON, Neil Imray Livingstone, Dr
Appointed: 1996
Occupation: Medical Practitioner

Legal constitution

Charity registered in Scotland on 31/03/1931, number: SC015490
Registered at Companies House on 20/10/1930, number: SC016172

Filing Record

5 returns made; AR20: 58 days late,

Main office

165 Station Road, Blantyre, G72 9BY

Objectives

To acquire by purchase, feu or otherwise the tenements in Blantyre, in the County of Lanark, containing the house in which David Livingstone, the Missionary and Explorer, was born or had his home as a child, together with an adjacent heritable proeprty comprising the house and grounds known as Blantyre Lodge, and to hold, manage and administer the said properties as a Scottish National Memorial of David Livingstone, his life and achievements.

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