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Gordon Cook Foundation

SC017455Registered charity from 17 December 1974
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Information about this charity:
Charity Information Operations Annual Submissions Income and Expenditure Charity Trustees
Charity Information:
Address Ground Floor
3 Carden Terrace
Aberdeen
Postcode AB10 1US
Website www.gordoncook.org
Regulatory Type Standard
Object:
3. The objects for which the Trust is established are: (1) To advance, promote and carry out any aspects of education or allied activities likely to promote character development hereinafter described. (2) To provide support, suggestions and information to teachers and parents relating to personal development of the child. Society renews itself through the schools.
Operations:
What the charity is set up to do and how it does this:
The Gordon Cook Foundation is an Aberdeen based charity established in 1974 to promote and develop values education throughout the United Kingdom. Values education includes social and moral education, health education and projects likely to promote character development, citizenship and ethical behaviour. The Foundation achieve this via the following: 1. Sponsoring and delivering educational projects designed to promote character development and good citizenship 2. Promoting social and moral education, complementary to religious education 3. Providing support, advice and information to teachers and others relating to personal development of the child 4. Disseminating the results of related research and development 5. Promoting citizenship in its widest terms including social & moral education, aesthetic appreciation, youth activities, co operation between the home and the school 6. Promoting health education 7. Receiving & managing funds from other appropriate sources
Charity Status: Active
Constitutional Form: Trust (founding document is a deed of trust) (other than educational endowment)
Constitutional Form Date: 17 Dec 1974
Main Operating Location: Aberdeen
Number of Staff: 1
Number of Volunteers: 0
Purposes: "the advancement of education", "the advancement of health", "the advancement of citizenship or community development"
Beneficiaries: "Children or young people"
Types Of Activity Undertaken: "It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations"
Annual Submissions:
Year End Income Expenditure Annual Return Received Accounts Received Latest Annual Reports and Accounts
05 Apr 2022 £548,670 £500,337 20 Dec 2022 Yes
05 Apr 2023 £549,566 £1,053,593 05 Dec 2023 Yes
05 Apr 2024 £586,511 £277,301 23 Oct 2024 Yes
05 Apr 2025 £564,407 £272,375 13 Oct 2025 Yes Download
05 Apr 2026 No Annual Information due by 05 Jan 2027
If an annual return has been received on time (within nine months of the Year End Date), the 'Annual Return Received' box is green   . If an annual return is late, the box is red   .
Income and Expenditure:
Charity Trustees:
First Name Last Name
Ivor Sutherland
Elaine McGowan
David Adams
Bruce Pandrich
Ken Muir
Val Gilchrist
Gavin Ross
Pauline Stephens
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