SNP have seen an increase in funding with three donations of more than £200,000 during the third quarter of 2024, according to new figures published by the Electoral Commission.
The increase in donations come after the party recorded receiving no donations in the first and second quarter of this year.
The latest window, July to September, saw donations accepted by political parties across the UK rise to £9,681,128.
This compares to £25,662,843 in the same period in 2023, and £56,101,699 in the previous quarter which led up to the General Election in July.
This year, three individuals donated more than £200,000 to the SNP, with the total of donations coming to £682,220.07.
South-African born Estelle Brownrig, who left a lump sum to the party after passing away in March 2018 at the age of 73, is recorded as donating £203,921.21 on August 10.
Brownrig, who stayed in a care home in Quarriers Village, Renfrewshire, also gifted £120,000 in 2019.
Property tycoon Alexander Adam donated £250,000 on August 19.
Adam has worked in Scottish housing and property markets since 1987, including his role as chairman of Homes for Scotland between 2014 and 2015.
A third individual, Thomas McCann, is listed as having donated ££228,298.86 on August 19.
Accounts submitted by the SNP to the Electoral Commission in August this year showed the party ended 2023 with a financial surplus of over £600,000, compared to a deficit of more than £800,000 in 2022.
It also showed the SNP had 64,525 members as of June this year – down from 74,889 in April 2023. A surplus in party accounts of £661,568 came as a result of two branch levies, the first to fund the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election and another to prepare for the general election.
Since 2000 there have been 70 bequests from SNP supporters worth £4.6m. Almost half the donations have been received since the 2014 referendum, while just under a third of donations have come since 2019.
The largest bequest in the past two decades came from Scotland’s first national poet Edwin Morgan, who left just over £1.1m to the party following his death in 2010.
