Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 6
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

DUNDEE REP AND SCOTTISH DANCE THEATRE LIMITED 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • 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
Established: 75 years
(84 years as a company)
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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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 £3,937,068 £3,986,935 £3,968,483 £3,607,223 £1,080,097
Donations & Legacies £260,110 £231,803 £110,545 £28,352 £2,418,763
Other Income £357,235
Investment Income £8 £6
Total income £4,547,490 £4,532,536 £4,393,640 £3,635,576 £4,624,914 £4,094,552
Charitable activities spending £4,258,876 £4,035,098 £3,931,147 £2,634,142 £4,145,767
Fundraising costs 3% 3% 3% 5% 4% 5%
Other spending £327,869 £313,775 £314,386 £13,196 £228,518
Total spending £4,708,566 £4,463,512 £4,376,025 £2,825,599 £4,285,092 £4,543,280
Surplus/deficit -£161,076 £69,024 £17,615 £809,977 £339,822 -£448,728
Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Purposes
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
Where it operates
  • Wider, but within one local authority area, 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
The Foyle Foundation£50,000
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Together With HMP Perth
£5,000 16/09/2022
A pilot project working with the children and incarcerated fathers, to build stronger familial bonds and provide evidence to the Scottish Prison Service of the need to view parental imprisonment ....more
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£50,000 08/02/2022
towards £1.17M upgrade and re-equipping improvements, specifically the ground floor renovation
National Lottery Community Fund - Carbon Beacons Tayside
£10,000 07/12/2021
This project is one of seven Scottish Carbon Beacons and aims to develop an App that can be utilised to be a centralised place to share and inform on local and region wide activities relating to ....more
Comic Relief - Young Persons Dramatherapy Service
£102,750 25/11/2015
36
The Scottish Children's Services Coalition (SCSC) recently reported that an estimated 20% of children have mental health problems in any given year. Data shows the number of children seen by Children ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Innocence Early Years Dance Residencies
£10,000 18/03/2015
12
Not Available

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (12)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 32-66
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 22/04/1949, number: SC017315
  • Registered at Companies House on 06/09/1939, number: SC021201
Filing Record
4 returns made; AR20: 60 days late,
Main office

Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre Limited, Tay Square, Dundee, DD1 1PB

Objectives

2.1 The company will promote, advance and further Charitable Purposes primarily by:- 2.1.1 leasing, owning, constructing, managing and maintaining a theatre (or theatres). 2.1.2 encouraging and creating opportunities to create, produce, promote, stage and showcase performances (whether theatre, musicals, drama, opera, dance or any other form) for/to the public at fair and reasonable prices, and in doing so produce and promote local and Scottish work as well as presenting performances and productions from international companies and individuals whether in Dundee or elsewhere (including touring internationally, work created by the Company in Dundee). 2.1.3 working with others in the sphere of arts and culture. 2.1.4 recognising the wider educational, community and social benefits that can be achieved through arts and culture activities and delivering and collaborating on such activities. and 2.1.5 providing opportunities for training in and the study of arts and culture.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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