Overall GiG Score: 14 ?
Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 8
Support Score: 8
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8

DUNDEE CONTEMPORARY ARTS LIMITED 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are 14 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 27 years
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 £847,326 £847,970 £916,380 £297,565 £678,135
Donations & Legacies £770,757 £747,185 £843,754 £1,495,338 £1,478,993
Other Income £172,583 £186,234 £196,542 £23,398 £222,592
Investment Income £742 £1,343 £1,960 £1,118 £9,174
Total income £2,025,076 £2,012,823 £2,135,533 £1,838,167 £2,252,711 £2,623,518
Charitable activities spending £1,872,934 £1,925,193 £1,942,105 £1,357,103 £2,252,895
Fundraising costs 16% 17% 16% 13% 13% 14%
Other spending
Total spending £2,169,977 £2,230,468 £2,252,487 £1,585,010 £2,261,815 £2,581,046
Surplus/deficit -£144,901 -£217,645 -£116,954 £253,157 -£9,104 £42,472
What it does
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Who it helps
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
Purposes
  • 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'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
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£260,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£70,000
Foundation Scotland£9,213
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Foundation Scotland - DCA Community Engagement Programme
£4,999 25/10/2023
To contribute to the cost of creative workshops and learning sessions for young people during school holidays.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Changing the Scottish arts sector for disabled artists
£260,000 18/07/2022
Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) is a centre for contemporary arts, that enables audiences, artists and participants to see, experience and create. This grant will support DCA in partnership with LUX ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award - COVID19 response
£25,000 22/04/2022
DCA 2020-22 – Respond, Reopen, Recover
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Dundee Contemporary Arts Limited
£4,214 17/08/2021
To fund ST/ART at DCA Autumn and Spring at ??Schools at ?? beginning in November 2021.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£25,000 09/04/2021
DCA 2020-22 – Respond, Reopen, Recover
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 10/07/2019
DCA20 – Celebrating 20 Years
Nesta - AS10058
£24,050 22/06/2012
Digital R&D - Scotland programme grant to Dundee Contemporary Arts Grant Ref AS10058
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (14)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split
Based on 13/14 persons

Age Range of Directors: 31-75
  • VEIT, Thomas
    Appointed: 2018
    Occupation: Director Of External Relations
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 23/05/1997, number: SC026631
  • Registered at Companies House on 23/05/1997, number: SC175926
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

152 Nethergate, Dundee, DD1 4DY

Objectives

To promote, maintain, improve and advance public education in contemporary arts and culture for the benefit of the community by the encouragement, support and promotion of the study, practice and knowledge of the visual arts (including but not limited to video and film) and other arts (including but not limited to sound recording, crafts, performance, broadcasting, publishing, literature, music, dance and song) by any means including but not limited to commissioning, galleries, printmaking workshops, displays, talks, research, discussion groups and exhibitions of all kinds as shall be deemed by the Company to be conducive to the objects specified above.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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