OSCR Scottish charity profile

Design Dundee Limited

ActiveCharity number SC041219
Registered28 January 2010
Main locationDundee City
Legal formCompany (the charity is registered with Companies House)

01 Identity

Scottish charity record

Snapshot 25 August 2026
OSCR charity number
SC041219
Status
Active
Regulatory type
Standard
Designated religious body
No
Geographical spread
UK and overseas
Volunteers
1-50 volunteers
Staff
97
Postcode
DD1 4EZ

02 Purpose and work

What the charity exists to do

We develop and operate V&A Dundee, Scotland's design museum. Our objectives are to advance the arts, heritage, culture & science. to advance education and research. and to advance citizenship and community development.

Charitable purposes

  • the advancement of education
  • the advancement of citizenship or community development
  • 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

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

03 Annual returns

Income and expenditure history

5 periods
Year endIncomeExpenditureStaffReturn received
31 March 2025£9,113,500£8,569,2659711 December 2025
31 March 2024£7,843,116£7,987,626976 December 2024
31 March 2023£6,804,638£7,783,7049722 December 2023
31 March 2022£6,722,593£6,630,5849715 December 2022
31 March 2021£7,802,179£6,087,5919715 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
V&A Dundee, 1 Riverside Esplanade, Dundee
Website supplied to OSCR
www.vam.ac.uk/dundee
Parent charity
Not supplied

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05 Provenance

Source for this profile

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