# Little Sparta Trust

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC023222
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Unincorporated association
- **Registered:** Dec. 13, 1994
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC023222


## Contact

- **Address:** McFadden Associates Ltd, 19 Rutland Square, Edinburgh, Midlothian
- **Postcode:** EH1 2BB



## Activities

**Activities:** 'It does none of these'

**Purposes:** 'the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science'

**What the charity does:** 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.

**Beneficiaries:** 'No specific group, or for the benefit of the community'

**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,





## Geography

- **Main operating location:** City of Edinburgh
- **Geographical spread:** A specific local point, community or neighbourhood



## Finances

| Period end | Income | Expenditure | Assets | Employees | Accounts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 31, 2025 | £119345 | £102902 |  -  | 2 | [PDF](/sc/SC023222/files/2025-03-31-accounts.pdf) (4.4 MB) |
| March 31, 2024 | £160710 | £186854 |  -  |  -  |  |
| March 31, 2023 | £102702 | £105992 |  -  |  -  |  |
| March 31, 2022 | £110198 | £102977 |  -  |  -  |  |
| March 31, 2021 | £143121 | £118969 |  -  |  -  |  |