Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 10
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • Grant maker support: +10
    Overall GiG Score: 11 ?

    EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY 

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
    • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
    • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised

    Financial issues to consider:

    • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
    Financial Data
    Income & Spending ?
    Period ending 31/07/18 31/07/19 31/07/20 31/07/21 31/07/22 31/07/23
    Charitable activities £107,198,560 £109,210,539 £113,681,073 £116,791,098 £133,346,303 £149,839,848
    Donations & Legacies £482,994 £151,572 £51,722 £690,642 £1,093,480
    Other Income
    Investment Income £108,229 £274,262 £363,350 £192,496 £276,570 £2,819,542
    Total income £118,936,693 £122,493,038 £127,616,255 £131,076,402 £148,309,363 £168,844,118
    Charitable activities spending £123,543,903 £129,207,359 £131,413,333 £133,579,071 £154,823,237 £161,091,195
    Fundraising costs 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
    Other spending
    Total spending £123,661,231 £129,367,513 £131,621,518 £133,761,695 £155,018,016 £161,329,750
    Surplus/deficit -£4,724,538 -£6,874,475 -£4,005,263 -£2,685,293 -£6,708,653 £7,514,368
    Established: 21 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • It carries out activities or services itself
    GiG Classification
    • Colleges and universities
    Purposes
    • The advancement of education
    Where it operates
    • UK and overseas, main operating location: City of Edinburgh
    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
    Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy£3,344,419
    William Grant Foundation£154,546
    Ministry of Defence£61,195
    Nesta£35,266
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Bòrd na Gàidhlig - Armed Forces Gaelic Network
    £3,000 15/02/2023
    In summer 2022, Army at the Fringe (run by the British Army in Scotland) presented an event devised by Gillebride MacIllemhaoil that explored Gaelic Culture through the lens of our shared military ....more
    Ministry of Defence - Covenant Fund
    £30,597 10/02/2023
    "The Armed Forces Covenant aims to: 1) the Armed Forces Covenant defines the enduring, general principles that should govern the relationship between the Nation, the Government and the Armed ....more
    Ministry of Defence - Covenant Fund
    £30,597 10/02/2023
    "The Armed Forces Covenant aims to: 1) the Armed Forces Covenant defines the enduring, general principles that should govern the relationship between the Nation, the Government and the Armed ....more
    Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - CiViL: Common-sense- and Visually-enhanced natural Language generation
    £98,128 01/04/2022
    Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP/T014598/1
    Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Natural Language Generation for Low-resource Domains
    £143,343 01/04/2022
    Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP/T024917/1
    Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Keep Learning
    £110,438 01/04/2022
    Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP/V026534/1
    Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - As Good as (G)Old Comparing Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services of Restored and Natural Mangrove Forests in the Wallacea Region (CoReNat)
    £6,255 01/04/2022
    Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE/S006990/1
    Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Cathelicidins As Novel Therapeutic Antivirals For Dengue Infection
    £8,487 01/04/2022
    Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=MR/S019790/1
    Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Investigating the use of temporary accommodation to house asylum seekers and refugees during the Covid-19 outbreak
    £12,494 01/04/2022
    Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES/V015990/1
    Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - INTERACT (Investigating New Types of Engagement, Response And Contact Technologies in Policing)
    £247,894 01/04/2022
    Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES/V00283X/1
    Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - COG-MHEAR: Towards cognitively-inspired 5G-IoT enabled, multi-modal Hearing Aids
    £882,797 01/04/2022
    Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP/T021063/1
    Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - The impacts of COVID-19 on Persons with Disabilities in Ukraine (with a particular focus on internally displaced Persons with Disabilities)
    £-1,932 01/04/2022
    Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH/V013505/1
    Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Edinburgh Napier University and Mike Stoane Lighting Limited
    £38,159 01/02/2022
    Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10003920
    Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Accelerate Innovation In Europe Through Startup Development And Co-creation
    £22,486 01/01/2022
    Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10033700
    Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - INTERACT (Investigating New Types of Engagement, Response And Contact Technologies in Policing)
    £175,671 01/09/2021
    Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES/V00283X/1
    Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Keep Learning
    £97,055 01/07/2021
    Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP/V026534/1
    William Grant Foundation - The West of Scotland Herring Hunt (WoSHH)
    £154,546 29/06/2021
    36
    To support a three-year research project focused on filling knowledge gaps to help identify, conserve and potentially restore essential herring spawning habitats and inform herring management.
    Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Edinburgh Napier University and Ace Aquatec Limited
    £53,005 01/06/2021
    Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=512070
    Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - Homegrown Bio-Offsite Manufactured (Bio-OSM) Accelerator - Phase 2
    £1,450,139 01/05/2021
    Full Grant details (including summaries) can be found on the Gateway to Research website: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10015548
    Nesta - AE00017
    £35,266 25/02/2020
    6
    PEC - External Research Commissioning programme grant to Edinburgh Napier University Grant Ref AE00017
    Nuffield Foundation - Justice grant
    £258,787 12/07/2017
    The Mental Health MHTS For Scotland: The views and experiences of patients, Named Person, Practitioners and MHTS members
    National Lottery Community Fund - Step up!
    £442,890 17/04/2013
    48
    This project aims to address workplace inequality for women in science, engineering and advanced manufacturing sectors. The project will take a holistic approach to tackling workplace inequality by ....more
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in Scotland on 21/03/2003, number: SC018373
    Filing Record
    4 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    Craiglockhart Campus, 219 Colinton Road, Edinburgh, EH14 1DJ

    Objectives

    The advancement of education

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator
    360 Giving
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