Finance Score: -4
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 0
  • Accounts overdue -5
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • No supporters identified
    Overall GiG Score: -4 ?

    UK COMMITTEE DR GRAHAM'S HOMES, KALIMPONG, INDIA 

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised

    Financial issues to consider:

    • Latest accounts are overdue for filing
    • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
    Financial Data
    Income & Spending ?
    Period ending 31/01/18 31/01/19 31/01/20 31/01/21 31/01/22
    Charitable activities £51,190 £18,058 £20,251 £47,594
    Donations & Legacies £504,283 £292,026 £228,008 £386,834
    Other Income
    Investment Income £34,695 £38,935 £33,519 £30,257
    Total income £590,168 £349,019 £281,778 £236,824 £464,685
    Charitable activities spending £411,712 £342,345 £359,818 £240,940
    Fundraising costs 3% 7% 9% 4%
    Other spending
    Total spending £427,613 £362,761 £382,066 £322,588 £257,369
    Surplus/deficit £162,555 -£13,742 -£100,288 -£85,764 £207,316
    Established: 107 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
    GiG Classification
    • Philanthropic intermediaries and voluntarism promotion
    Purposes
    • The prevention or relief of poverty
    • The advancement of education
    • The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
    Where it operates
    • Overseas only, main operating location: City of Edinburgh
    Who it helps
    • Children or young people

    Who's supporting them? ?

    We have no records of donations from grant makers.

    How is it governed?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in Scotland on 30/08/1917, number: SC016341
    • Notes: This charity intends to wind up and transfer its assets and liabilities to Dr Graham's Homes Kalimpong (UK), SC050985 which is a Charitable Company.
    Filing Record
    5 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    Braeriach, South Kingennie, South Kingennie, Broughty Ferry, Dundee, DD5 3PA

    Objectives

    1. To relieve the needs of children, particularly Anglo Indian, by supporting them at Dr Graham’s Homes, Kalimpong, or elsewhere in continuance of the legacy of Dr. John Anderson Graham. 2. To advance the education of children by organising and managing a Sponsorship Scheme or Extended Sponsorship Scheme through which funds are maintained to provide sponsored children with scholarships or bursaries for the cost of their education or career training. 3. To relieve the poverty of children by providing the means for their education through the provision of accommodation and care for their well-being. In order to achieve the Objectives, the Trustees shall have power to:- • raise and hold funds which may be used or directed towards the foregoing Objective. and • take any such further action as may be conducive to the attainment of the Objectives.

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    Scottish Charity Regulator
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