Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: -10
Support Score: 0
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • 2 Trustees: -2
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Very static board: -5
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: -15 ?

CLAN SINCLAIR TRUST

Analysis by Giving is Great

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 2 trustees
  • The Board composition appears to be very static and has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/12/17 31/12/18 31/12/19 31/12/20 31/12/21 31/12/22
Total income £58,110 £16,053 £3,409 £1,579 £16,557 £2,568
Total spending £23,468 £27,906 £6,607 £9,985 £8,105 £27,064
Surplus/deficit £34,642 -£11,853 -£3,198 -£8,406 £8,452 -£24,496
Established: 26 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • Museums, parks, historical sites
Purposes
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
  • The advancement of environmental protection or improvement
Where it operates
  • Highland
Who it helps
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Who supports them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Directors (2)
Current Directors appointed

Age Range of Directors: 72-75
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 04/03/1999, number: SC028778
  • Registered at Companies House on 04/03/1999, number: SC194021
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

c/o Saffery Champness, Kintail House, Beechwood Park, Inverness, IV2 3BW

Objectives

(i) preserve and promote for the benefit of the public Sinclair and Girnigoe Castles in Caithness by taking such steps as necessary to arrest decay and restore the fabric of the Castles. (ii) advance the education of the public about the history of the Castles and the Sinclair family by promoting and furthering the study of the Castles and the Sinclair family and to make the information obtained available to the general public.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator

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