01 Identity
Scottish charity record
- OSCR charity number
- SC044947
- Status
- Active
- Regulatory type
- Standard
- Designated religious body
- No
- Geographical spread
- Wider, but within one local authority area
- Volunteers
- 51-100 volunteers
- Staff
- 21
- Postcode
- DG1 2BJ
02 Purpose and work
What the charity exists to do
The Stove Network (TSN) is an arts and community organisation that uses arts and creativity to enable communities to vision, create and enact new futures for themselves and their places. At the core of our mission is an understanding of arts not as something solely for an ‘arts audience’ but rather as a vital contribution to society on all fronts. Our work seeks to engage with the widest possible range of people on issues relevant to their lives in ways that can make a lasting difference and support community visioning/planning and delivery for new initiatives that promote and develop wellbeing and sustainable local futures.
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
The Company's objects are: 6.2.1 to promote the arts, including drama, dance, music, literature, poetry, painting, film making, photography and sculpture and other art forms and areas of artistic endeavour, and in particular (but without prejudice to the generality of that aim) with a view to the involvement of local communities within the Community. 6.2.2 to collaborate and form partnerships with individuals or organisations to benefit the Community through the arts. 6.2.3 to support community initiatives within the Community using the arts. 6.2.4 to use the arts to promote the benefits of social welfare of the inhabitants of the Community, without regard to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, race, religion and belief, sex and sexual orientation. political, religious or other opinions. and 6.2.5 to promote best practice and advance policy around creative community arts for the benefit of the Community.
03 Annual returns
Income and expenditure history
| Year end | Total income | Donations | Charitable activities income | Trading income | Investment income | Other income | Total expenditure | Raising funds | Charitable activities spending | Other spending | Staff | Return received |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 March 2025 | £754,921 | £6,367 | £470,905 | £275,227 | £2,422 | £0 | £854,274 | £192,054 | £662,220 | £0 | 21 | 19 December 2025 |
| 31 March 2024 | £952,173 | £1,249 | £706,044 | £242,787 | £2,093 | £0 | £844,845 | £182,365 | £662,480 | £0 | 21 | 10 December 2024 |
| 31 March 2023 | £945,180 | £2,991 | £712,100 | £229,850 | £239 | £0 | £888,480 | £163,352 | £725,128 | £0 | 21 | 18 December 2023 |
| 31 March 2022 | £902,831 | £5,093 | £728,829 | £138,428 | £18 | £30,463 | £796,054 | £109,568 | £686,486 | £0 | 21 | 22 December 2022 |
| 31 March 2021 | £494,771 | £716 | £348,621 | £76,361 | £255 | £68,818 | £434,757 | £64,658 | £370,099 | £0 | 21 | 21 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
- 100 High Street, Dumfries
- Website supplied to OSCR
- www.thestove.org
- Parent charity
- Not supplied
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05 Provenance
Source for this profile
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