Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 0
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • No supporters identified
    Overall GiG Score: 3 ?

    UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN DEVELOPMENT TRUST SCIO 

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
    Financial Data
    Income & Spending ?
    Period ending 31/07/22 31/07/23
    Charitable activities
    Donations & Legacies
    Other Income £52,882,545
    Investment Income £299,801
    Total income £0 £54,583,157
    Charitable activities spending £3,617,559
    Fundraising costs 21%
    Other spending £28,451
    Total spending £0 £3,945,292
    Surplus/deficit £0 £50,637,865
    Established: 3 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
    • It carries out activities or services itself
    GiG Classification
    • Colleges and universities
    Purposes
    • The advancement of education
    • The advancement of health
    • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
    Where it operates
    • Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: Aberdeen
    Who it helps
    • Other defined groups

    Who supports them? ?

    We have no records of donations from grant makers.

    How is it governed?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in Scotland on 26/05/2021, number: SC050996
    • Notes: This SCIO has been established to replace University of Aberdeen Development Trust (SC002938). University of Aberdeen Development Trust (SC002938) intends to wind up and transfer the assets and liabilities to University of Aberdeen Development Trust SCIO (SC050996).
    Main office

    , AB24 3UG

    Objectives

    The Organizations purposes are: To fundraise in accordance with the Code of Fundraising Practice from time to time or other reputable Code or protocol adopted as best practice and to manage the investment and disbursement of the funds of the Trust for the advancement of education, health, the arts, heritage and science, for the primary benefit of the University in pursuance of its Strategic Plan from time to time, the University community (undergraduates, postgraduates, alumni and others) including but not limited to the following

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator
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