Finance Score: 4
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 3
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • All male board: -3
  • Overall weighted support: +3
Overall GiG Score: 7 ?

ALHAMBRA THEATRE TRUST

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is completely male
Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/12/17 31/12/18 31/12/19 31/12/20 31/12/21 31/12/22 31/12/23
Charitable activities £363,226 £503,284 £10,969 £189,210 £540,960
Donations & Legacies £40,000 £40,000 £271,927
Other Income £20
Investment Income £1,600 £4,036
Total income £1,556,248 £1,299,697 £1,827,857 £440,794 £967,339 £2,514,039 £2,092,833
Charitable activities spending £42,813 £40,000 £196,001 £592,916 £98,080
Fundraising costs 10% 13% 14% 1% 13% 8% 10%
Other spending £984,742 £1,341,456 £228,850 £1,190,390 £1,574,268
Total spending £1,405,140 £1,197,966 £1,631,973 £429,803 £841,226 £1,976,146 £1,881,541
Surplus/deficit £151,108 £101,731 £195,884 £10,991 £126,113 £537,893 £211,292
Established: 16 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • Performing and visual arts
Purposes
  • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
Where it operates
  • Fife
Who it helps
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Scottish Government - Alhambra Theatre Trust
£28,750 15/04/2020
Detailed description not provided.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (5)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 29-75
  • GUDGIN, Paul
    Appointed: 2008
    Occupation: Lecturer And Consultant
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 25/08/2008, number: SC039817
  • Registered at Companies House on 01/07/2008, number: SC345187
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

33 Canmore Street, Dunfermline, KY12 7NX

Objectives

The Charity's objects ('the Objects') are to advance, promote, improve, develop, and maintain appreciation of and activities in the arts and the education of the public in the arts by the provision and maintenance of a theatre for the presentation and staging of plays, operas, musicals and other arts activities and to facilitate access by the general public to the arts including but not limited to, the arts of drama, ballet, music, singing, dancing, literature, sculpture, craft, and painting and to provide, develop, maintain, manage, upgrade, restore and make available a theatre as a base for the preparation, establishment, development, and furtherance of schemes and activities for said arts, and to produce, direct, organise, stage and develop plays, artistic productions and other arts activities generally including, without Limitation, in the said areas of the arts.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving

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