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Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 8
Support Score: 6
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

DESIGN DUNDEE LIMITED

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why are there 19 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
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
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 £1,899,288 £674,068 £876,273 £309,238 £375,662
Donations & Legacies £680 £6,970,170 £4,403,123 £7,159,084 £5,765,017
Other Income £495,090
Investment Income £177 £236 £12,516
Total income £2,395,235 £8,547,350 £6,229,259 £7,802,179 £6,722,593 £6,804,638
Charitable activities spending £2,443,443 £6,683,732 £6,002,580 £5,202,892 £6,602,644
Fundraising costs 13% 21% 11% 15% 17%
Other spending
Total spending £2,443,443 £7,767,426 £7,338,132 £6,087,591 £6,630,584 £7,783,704
Surplus/deficit -£48,208 £779,924 -£1,108,873 £1,714,588 £92,009 -£979,066
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Established: 15 years

www.vam.ac.uk/dundee

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 citizenship or community development
  • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
Where it operates
  • UK and overseas, main operating location: Dundee City
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
Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation - Grant to V&A Dundee
£4,000 19/05/2023
Travel support for a Japanese photographer to create a new photographic diorama of the city of Dundee which will be displayed for a minimum of 6 months in 2024 as part of the Photo City exhibition and to celebrate Dundee's 10 years as a UNESCO City ....more
Postcode Culture Trust - Regular Grant 2023
£700,000 29/03/2023
Regular unrestricted award
Postcode Culture Trust - Regular Grant 2022
£600,000 16/03/2022
Regular unrestricted award
William Grant Foundation - V&A Schools Design Challenge 2019-20
£45,800 08/03/2019
24
Towards the cost of delivering the Schools Design Challenge, launching in 2019 and culminating in an exhibition at the V&A Dundee in 2020.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (19)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split
Based on 18/19 persons

Age Range of Directors: 41-64
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 28/01/2010, number: SC041219
  • Registered at Companies House on 30/12/2009, number: SC370598
Filing Record
5 returns made; AR20: 65 days late,
Main office

V&A Dundee, 1 Riverside Esplanade, Dundee, DD1 4EZ

Objectives

1.1 To advance the arts, heritage, culture and science 1.2 To advance education and research 1.3 To advance citizenship and community development in furthering purposes 1.1. and 1.2 and 1.4 To advance such similar charitable purposes as the directors may consider appropriate from time to time

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving

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