Overall GiG Score: 2 ?
Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 2
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • Grant maker support: +2

    ABSOLUTE CLASSICS 

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker
    • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
    Established: 10 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Financial Data
    Income & Spending ?
    Period ending 30/03/18 30/03/19 30/03/20 30/03/21 30/03/22 30/03/23
    Total income £154,648 £129,511 £113,179 £80,869 £147,652 £157,924
    Total spending £145,790 £130,188 £114,773 £86,430 £93,778 £124,635
    Surplus/deficit £8,858 -£677 -£1,594 -£5,561 £53,874 £33,289
    What it does
    • It carries out activities or services itself
    Who it helps
    • Children or young people
    • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
    Purposes
    • The advancement of education
    • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
    Where it operates
    • Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: Dumfries And Galloway

    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.

    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
    £3,000 27/05/2020
    towards the concert and masterclass programme in 2020 which has been revised for online delivery during pandemic (awarded grant in response to coronavirus)
    Robertson Trust - The Education and Outreach Programme
    £10,000 19/09/2017
    The Education and Outreach Programme

    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in Scotland on 15/01/2014, number: SC044584
    Filing Record
    5 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    Bridge House, 9 High Street, Annan, DG12 6AD

    Objectives

    The organisation's purposes are the promotion, maintenance, improvement, and advancement of education principally by the encouragement, appreciation and enjoyment of classical music and other types of music. these purposes include the arts of drama, dance, literature, storytelling, song, the spoken word and visual arts including film, photography, digital and the decorative arts and crafts and any combination of these art forms, principally but not exclusively by holding performances, workshops and events in the area defined in this paragraph. 5 The area within which the organisation shall operate (in this constitution referred to as the 'Area of Benefit') shall be Dumfries and Galloway and surrounding areas extending throughout Scotland and on occasion elsewhere as deemed appropriate by the Charity Trustees.

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator
    360 Giving
    Authorised officials of this charity can add information to this page (including a Donate Now button) for no cost

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