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Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: -3
Support Score: 8
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • No PartB
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Mainly male board: -1
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 6 ?

FORTH RIVERS TRUST

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly male
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
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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
Charitable activities £521,633 £600,374 £776,811 £969,930 £676,051 £981,284
Donations & Legacies £62,627 £94,587 £71,480 £70,638 £77,094 £84,808
Other Income £2,896
Investment Income £12 £12 £37 £26 £1,162
Total income £584,272 £694,973 £851,224 £1,040,594 £1,077,213 £753,145 £1,288,475
Charitable activities spending £485,583 £646,343 £870,855 £790,568 £799,797 £1,177,401
Fundraising costs
Other spending £50,846 £1,875 £121,503
Total spending £536,429 £648,218 £870,855 £790,568 £1,011,035 £799,797 £1,298,904
Surplus/deficit £47,843 £46,755 -£19,631 £250,026 £66,178 -£46,652 -£10,429
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Established: 16 years

www.forthriverstrust.org

Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • Environment conservation & animal welfare advocacy
Purposes
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of environmental protection or improvement
Where it operates
  • More than one local authority area in Scotland, main operating location: Perth And Kinross
Who it helps
  • 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Heritage Fund£466,430
Esmee Fairbairn£272,466
Scottish Government£53,836
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Forth Rivers Trust
£95,119 04/09/2023
#FIRNS Leven Landscape Enterprise Networks (LENs)
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to West Lothian Council
£285,611 07/03/2023
Bathgate Meadows Nature Park
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Forth Rivers Trust
£16,406 06/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Forth Rivers Trust
£256,060 02/11/2021
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Towards core costs supporting community engagement and campaigning on the Lothian Esks.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Forth Rivers Trust
£49,200 25/08/2020
COVID19 Forth Rivers Trust
Scottish Government - Forth Rivers Trust
£53,836 02/04/2020
Detailed description not provided.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Forth Rivers Trust
£36,500 18/12/2019
The Forgotten Fish - using traditional methods for current conversation issues
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (7)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Directors: 56-68
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 27/02/2009, number: SC040311
    • Notes: Previous Charity name: The River Forth Fisheries Trust from 27-02-2009 to 04-10-2018
  • Registered at Companies House on 25/06/2008, number: SC344935
Filing Record
5 returns made; AR20: 1 days late,
Main office

The Clubhouse, 106 Biggar Road, Edinburgh, EH10 7DU

Objectives

(A) To advance for public benefit environmental protection and improvement by conserving and enhancing all species of freshwater fish and their environments primarily but not limited to the inland and coastal waters of the River Forth catchment including all waters which enter the Forth Estuary and Firth of Forth. (B) To advance the education of the public and any association, company, local authority, administrative or governmental agency or public body or representative body in: - (1) The understanding of aquatic ecosystems, including their fauna, flora and economic or social activity, and river catchment management. (2) The need for, and benefits of, protection, conservation, rehabilitation and improvement of aquatic environments.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving

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