01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC023222
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- A specific local point, community or neighbourhood
- Volunteers
- 1-50 volunteers
- Staff
- 2
- Postcode
- EH1 2BB
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
To maintain the garden created by Ian Hamilton Finlay. The garden was created from the artist fusion of poetic and sculptural elements with those of the natural landscape of its surroundings.
Charitable purposes
- the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
Beneficiaries
- No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
Activities
- It does none of these
Constitutional objectives
the purposes of the Trust are to advance education, artistic, historical, social and architectural appreciation and knowledge and to promote and aid such other purposes as are recognised by law to be exclusively charitable under the style of the Little Sparta Trust or such other style as the Trustees may adopt, and in particular, but without prejudce to the generality of the foregoing,
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2025 | £119,345 | £102,902 | 2 | 23 December 2025 |
| 31 March 2024 | £160,710 | £186,854 | 2 | 19 December 2024 |
| 31 March 2023 | £102,702 | £105,992 | 2 | 7 December 2023 |
| 31 March 2022 | £110,198 | £102,977 | 2 | 14 February 2023 |
| 31 March 2021 | £143,121 | £118,969 | 2 | 2 February 2022 |
Figures are those reported by the charity and supplied in the OSCR bulk download. Blank facts remain distinct from zero.
04 Contact record
Principal office or trustees address
- Address supplied to OSCR
- McFadden Associates Ltd, 19 Rutland Square, Edinburgh, Midlothian
- Website supplied to OSCR
- Not supplied
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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