Finance Score: -6
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 2
  • Spending declining: -1
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • Overall weighted support: +2
    Overall GiG Score: -4 ?

    DAISY DROP IN

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker
    • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation

    Financial issues to consider:

    • Spending is declining
    • Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
    Financial Data
    Income & Spending ?
    Period ending 31/03/18 31/03/19 31/03/20 31/03/21 31/03/22 31/03/23 31/03/24
    Total income £71,739 £74,856 £81,091 £99,755 £85,801 £63,684 £37,205
    Total spending £78,223 £65,468 £88,004 £80,639 £71,225 £61,170 £54,576
    Surplus/deficit -£6,484 £9,388 -£6,913 £19,116 £14,576 £2,514 -£17,371
    Established: 17 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • It carries out activities or services itself
    GiG Classification
    • General Community services
    Purposes
    • The advancement of education
    • The advancement of citizenship or community development
    • The provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended
    Where it operates
    • West Lothian
    • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation
    Who it helps
    • Children or young people
    • People with disabilities or health problems
    • Other defined groups','No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

    Who supports them? ?

    Donations from Grant Makers ?

    We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    National Lottery Community Fund - Playworker
    £7,000 07/10/2022
    The centre will use the funding to employ a Playworker to deliver structured informative and interactive sessions to parents/carers of pre school-age children.
    Scottish Government - Daisy Drop In
    £2,000 03/06/2020
    Detailed description not provided.

    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in Scotland on 14/03/2008, number: SC039424
    • Notes: This SCIO was incorporated on 19/01/2015 as a result of a Change to SCIO application by Daisy Drop In which was an Unincorporated Association registered as a charity since 14/03/2008.
    Filing Record
    5 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    Almondbank Centre, Shiel Walk, Craigshill, Livingston, West Lothian, EH54 5EH

    Objectives

    The organisation is established for charitable purposes only, and in particular, the objects are: 1. The advancement of education. 2. The advancement of citizenship or community development, 3. The provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities. 4. To improve the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended. 5. To promote the benefit of the inhabitants of Craigshill and its environs and in particular parents and children by associating the residents, voluntary organisations and statutory agencies in a common effort to advance education and to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and leisure time occupation with the object of improving the life of the said inhabitants.

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator
    360 Giving

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