Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 0

Strong growth: +2
No PartB

(no info on trustees)

No supporters identified

Overall GiG Score: 2

A R & K M MACLAREN TRUST

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Financial Data

Income & Spending ?

Period ending	05/04/18	05/04/19	05/04/20	05/04/21	05/04/22	05/04/23
Total income	£6,381	£6,964	£31,523	£19,083	£39,501	£92,969
Total spending	£5,243	£3,497	£28,280	£43,053	£41,996	£92,562
Surplus/deficit	£1,138	£3,467	£3,243	-£23,970	-£2,495	£407

Established: 34 years

Scottish Charity Regulator

Listed activities

It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations

GiG Classification

Museums, parks, historical sites

Purposes

The prevention or relief of poverty
The advancement of education
The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science','any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes

Where it operates

City of Edinburgh

Who it helps

Other defined groups

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 31/10/1990, number: SC022496

Filing Record

5 returns made; AR20: 45 days late,

Main office

16 Heriot Row, Edinburgh, EH3 6HR

Objectives

The object of The Trust which is to be in accordance with the wishes of the said Alan Robert MacLaren is to provide charitable assistance to Members of the Society in needy circumstances and to support educational projects connected with The Society and the history of The Clan in particular but without prejudice to the foregoing generality (1) To provide help or comforts to Members of The Society in cases of sickness or illness. (2) To assist in providing holidays in Balquhidder for Members of The Society convalescing after illness either by the provision of accommodation or by financial grant. (3) To provide financial assistance or the provision of accommodation to Undergraduate or Postgraduate Members of the Society to assist their education/ education generally and in particular to aid research and educational projects connected with The Clan MacLaren, such activities and projects to be centred where possible in the Clan's Ancestral Home in Balquhidder Strathearn. (4) To provide financial assistance for the restoration or upkeep and maintenance of the ruined Church of Balquhidder with the aim of ultimately restoring it as a place of public worship.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator

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