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Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 8
Support Score: 0
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: 11 ?

THE GLASGOW ACADEMICALS WAR MEMORIAL TRUST 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased 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 and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are 14 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12
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Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 30/06/17 30/06/18 30/06/19 30/06/20 30/06/21 30/06/22 30/06/23
Charitable activities £15,577,773 £16,688,266 £16,828,441 £18,570,004 £19,518,034 £20,490,791
Donations & Legacies £1,401,131 £96,889 £655,693 £92,518 £79,510
Other Income £57,007 £58,462 £240,149 £367,285 £26,778 £29,233
Investment Income £276,521 £270,503 £241,478 £239,318 £275,947 £272,808
Total income £16,101,928 £17,405,105 £17,216,359 £18,044,145 £19,327,362 £20,010,558 £20,944,628
Charitable activities spending £14,846,895 £15,708,937 £16,264,238 £16,428,047 £18,753,836 £21,138,236
Fundraising costs 0% 0% 0% 0% 4% 0% 0%
Other spending £303,359 £268,339 £233,849 £164,537 £171,264 £111,891
Total spending £14,475,412 £15,219,796 £16,051,704 £16,539,060 £17,314,801 £18,960,737 £21,328,170
Surplus/deficit £1,626,516 £2,185,309 £1,164,655 £1,505,085 £2,012,561 £1,049,821 -£383,542
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Established: 104 years

www.theglasgowacademy.org.uk

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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
  • School support organisations
Purposes
  • The advancement of education
Where it operates
  • More than one local authority area in Scotland, main operating location: Glasgow City
Who it helps
  • Children or young people

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Directors (14)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split
Based on 13/14 persons

Age Range of Directors: 41-68
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 11/10/1920, number: SC015638
  • Registered at Companies House on 25/06/1920, number: SC011313
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

Glasgow Academy, Colebrooke Street, Glasgow, G12 8HE

Objectives

To carry on The Glasgow Academy as a School for boys and girls and to promote by means of Exhibitions, Scholarships and Bursaries (whether tenable at the Glasgow Academy or elsewhere) or otherwise, systematic education, instruction and study in various branches of knowledge, including clas¬sical, commercial, linguistic, mathematical, industrial, literary, scientific and other cognate subjects

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