01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC026631
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- Wider, but within one local authority area
- Volunteers
- 0 volunteers
- Staff
- 75
- Postcode
- DD1 4DY
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
DCA is one of Scotland’s foremost contemporary arts organisations. DCA’s mission is to enable audiences, artists, and participants to see, experience and create through our four programme areas: Exhibitions, Cinema, Print Studio and Learning. With two beautiful large-scale gallery spaces, two thriving cinema screens, a busy print studio, an award-winning learning programme, and a packed programme of events, workshops, classes and activities aimed at all ages and abilities, DCA is a vibrant cultural hub open to all, located in the heart of the city. DCA is a charity that relies on support from a range of sources to keep enriching people’s lives through art, culture and creativity. As well as income from our cinema, the rental of our café/bar and earned income from our trading subsidiary, DCA receives core funding from Creative Scotland and Dundee City Council, and further generous support from trusts, foundations, corporate partners and individual donors
Charitable purposes
- the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
Beneficiaries
- No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
Activities
- It carries out activities or services itself
Constitutional objectives
To promote, maintain, improve and advance public education in contemporary arts and culture for the benefit of the community by the encouragement, support and promotion of the study, practice and knowledge of the visual arts (including but not limited to video and film) and other arts (including but not limited to sound recording, crafts, performance, broadcasting, publishing, literature, music, dance and song) by any means including but not limited to commissioning, galleries, printmaking workshops, displays, talks, research, discussion groups and exhibitions of all kinds as shall be deemed by the Company to be conducive to the objects specified above.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Income | Expenditure | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2025 | £2,784,604 | £2,940,456 | 75 | 16 October 2025 |
| 31 March 2024 | £2,631,753 | £3,013,008 | 75 | 18 December 2024 |
| 31 March 2023 | £2,623,518 | £2,581,046 | 75 | 28 November 2023 |
| 31 March 2022 | £2,252,711 | £2,261,815 | 75 | 20 December 2022 |
| 31 March 2021 | £1,838,167 | £1,585,010 | 75 | 17 December 2021 |
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
- 152 Nethergate, Dundee
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.dca.org.uk
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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