Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +1
Overall GiG Score: 5 ?

BLACKHALL COMMUNITY TRUST

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/12/17 31/12/18 31/12/19 31/12/20 31/12/21 31/12/22 31/12/23
Total income £1,974 £17,946 £45,081 £810 £39,305 £743 £861
Total spending £449 £18,554 £14,183 £1,597 £14,271 £23,376 £6,588
Surplus/deficit £1,525 -£608 £30,898 -£787 £25,034 -£22,633 -£5,727
Established: 8 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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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
  • City of Edinburgh
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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Ravelston Park Pavilion - a community hub for Blackhall
£9,800 10/11/2021
This group will use the funding to pay for supporting reports by professional consultants required for their planning application to build a new community facility. When completed the building will provide improved facilities which are needed in the ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (6)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split
Based on 5/6 persons

Age Range of Directors: 37-67
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 17/03/2017, number: SC047250
  • Registered at Companies House on 05/12/2016, number: SC551774
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

Ravelston Park Pavilion, EH4 3RU

Objectives

4 The company has been formed to benefit the community of Blackhall, Edinburgh, defined by the postcode units listed in Appendix 1 (which includes the Blackhall School catchment area) (“the Community”) with the Purposes listed in the sub-articles hereto (“the Purposes”), to be exercised following the principles of sustainable development (where sustainable development means development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs), namely: (1) To advance community development within the Community, including urban regeneration. (2) To advance education, including early years and community learning, for the benefit of the public. (3) To provide facilities for recreation, sport and other leisure activities for the health and wellbeing of the public. But only to the extent that the above purposes are consistent with furthering the achievement of sustainable development.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving

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