Finance Score: -4
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 0
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: -1 ?

EDINBURGH CHINESE SCHOOL 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
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
Total income £12,754 £13,764 £12,263 £8,532 £14,456 £3,244 £6,223
Total spending £12,441 £9,677 £10,247 £10,875 £7,477 £10,528 £17,628
Surplus/deficit £313 £4,087 £2,016 -£2,343 £6,979 -£7,284 -£11,405
Established: 29 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • Legal & financial advice
Purposes
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
  • The promotion of religious or racial harmony
Where it operates
  • Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: City of Edinburgh
Who it helps
  • Children or young people
  • People with a particular ethnic or racial origin

Who supports them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Directors (4)
Current Directors appointed

Age Range of Directors: 27-55
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 21/01/1995, number: SC023606
  • Registered at Companies House on 18/12/2007, number: SC335413
Filing Record
5 returns made; AR20: 28 days late,
Main office

, EH4 9BR

Objectives

The Company's objects shall be: (a) to offer anyone an opportunity to learn the Chinese language (Cantonese & Mandarin) and culture (b) to promote racial harmony through language teaching and other educational activities (c) to raise awareness and mutual understanding among different races and cultures in the society

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