Finance Score: 4
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 8
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

CAMPHILL RUDOLF STEINER SCHOOLS LTD 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender
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 £7,569,256 £7,823,674 £8,275,954 £9,601,910 £10,346,120
Donations & Legacies £189,794 £267,509 £64,435 £177,638 £1,136,343
Other Income
Investment Income
Total income £7,767,450 £8,098,393 £8,386,537 £9,844,323 £10,668,858 £11,520,464
Charitable activities spending £7,570,199 £7,694,484 £8,602,086 £9,256,516 £11,325,575
Fundraising costs 1% 1% 1% 0% 0% 0%
Other spending
Total spending £7,616,310 £7,751,340 £8,649,787 £9,284,154 £10,078,447 £11,347,160
Surplus/deficit £151,140 £347,053 -£263,250 £560,169 £590,411 £173,304
Established: 37 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • Services for people with disabilities
Purposes
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of citizenship or community development
  • The advancement of public participation in sport','the advancement of environmental protection or improvement
Where it operates
  • Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: Aberdeen
Who it helps
  • Children or young people
  • People with disabilities or health problems

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Garfield Weston Foundation£200,000
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust£50,000
Foundation Scotland£36,960
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Foundation Scotland - Retrofit sustainable zero-waste shop
£6,926 14/08/2023
7
Towards the costs of retrofitting a disused building into a zero waste shop by contributing to the costs of an air source heat pump, insulation, LED lighting and triple glazed windows and doors.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Major Grants award
£200,000 30/09/2022
New Residential Home in Aberdeen with independent living wing
Foundation Scotland - Building Futures, Transforming Lives PV panels
£12,500 27/07/2022
12
To contribute to the cost of the installation of PV Panels, including a battery storage system, on a new residential home for young people.
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Camphill School Aberdeen Phase 1 – A new home.
£50,000 26/05/2022
Camphill School Aberdeen is requesting £50,000 to transform the lives of young people with neurological conditions who need a minimum of 1:1 very specialist support. Providing a new 11 bed ....more
Foundation Scotland - Camphill School Aberdeen's Community Composting System
£5,074 01/07/2021
12
To introduce a hot composting system which would eliminate the need to purchase compost from external sources, significantly increasing the sustainability of the Murtle Estate organic food and herb ....more
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Camphill Rudolf Steiner Schools Ltd (operating as Camphill School Aberdeen)
£4,960 04/11/2020
12
To contribute to the cost of 4 new laptops for staff at Camphill School in Aberdeen to support them to have the flexibility of working from home and on site, in a blended work model.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Camphill Rudolf Steiner Schools Ltd (operating as Camphill School Aberdeen)
£2,000 04/11/2020
12
to contribute towards purchasing an iPad, cover and label printing scale to support the FRUVER workshop.
Foundation Scotland - Unlock your Bike, Unlock your Potential and Let's Pedal to an Environmentally Sustainable Future
£5,500 24/06/2020
12
To fund the purchase of a cargo e-bike to create a new and environmentally sustainable transportation method for the students to deliver food and household products to the School?s residential houses.
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Development of CSA’s Equine Therapies
£20,000 30/05/2018
They plan to expand CSA’s riding therapy provision to equine-assisted therapy and increase riding therapy sessions to CSA students and external organisations. This will enable more students with ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (7)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 35-72
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 24/04/1987, number: SC015588
  • Registered at Companies House on 31/03/1987, number: SC103899
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

Murtle House, Murtle Estate, Bieldside, Aberdeen, AB15 9EP

Objectives

2.1 The Company will promote, advance and further Charitable Purposes and activities as part of the international Camphill Movement by aiming to create a community in which children and adults, many with learning disabilities, can live, learn and work with others in healthy social relationships based on mutual care and respect, and in doing so creating an inclusive, lifelong learning culture with an integrated approach to health, education and care. 2.2 In promoting, advancing and furthering Charitable Purposes and activities as detailed in article 2.1 the Company seeks to further develop a living and working community based on equality of rights and opportunities, collaboration, freedom and empowering respectful relationships. The Company has an active engagement with the wider society, facilitating a mutually beneficial flow of information and learning. 2.3 For the purposes of the Charities Act the following Charitable Purposes are relevant and for the purposes of the Charities Act are the Charitable Purposes identified as applicable from section 7 of the Charities Act:- 2.3.1 the advancement of education. 2.3.2 the advancement of citizenship or community development 2.3.3 the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the condition for the persons from whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended. and 2.3.4 the advancement of environmental protection or improvement 2.4 For the purposes of the Taxes Acts the provisions set out in 2.1 to 2.3 inclusive shall be read together to ensure the Charitable Purposes of the Company are compliant with the Taxes Act.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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