Overall GiG Score: 1 ?
Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Grant maker support: +1

DRUMCHAPEL COMMUNITY BUSINESS LTD 

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
  • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly female

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 38 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/03/17 31/03/18 31/03/19 31/03/20 31/03/21 31/03/22 31/03/23
Total income £217,727 £210,275 £194,807 £200,270 £174,781 £175,384 £191,678
Total spending £271,278 £259,887 £274,008 £266,244 £212,880 £245,110 £208,461
Surplus/deficit -£53,551 -£49,612 -£79,201 -£65,974 -£38,099 -£69,726 -£16,783
What it does
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Who it helps
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
Purposes
  • The prevention or relief of poverty
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of citizenship or community development
Where it operates
  • Glasgow City
  • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Glasgow City Council - Community Environmental Therapy
£18,901 15/03/2019
A learning and skills development project, in conjunction with the Thomas Fortune Centre, targeting adults with learning disabilities. The project undertakes environmental improvements whilst ....more
Glasgow City Council - Community Environmental Therapy
£18,901 07/06/2018
A learning and skills development project, in conjunction with the Thomas Fortune Centre, targeting adults with learning disabilities. The project undertakes environmental improvements whilst ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (7)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 42-84
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 25/11/1985, number: SC000299
  • Registered at Companies House on 25/11/1985, number: SC096089
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

42 Dalsetter Avenue, Drumchapel, Glasgow, G15 8TE

Objectives

Subject to the said over-riding qualifications the objects for which the company is established are: 1. The relief of poverty by the alleviation of unemployment principally for the poor residents of Drumchapel Glasgow G15 without distinction as to race, age or sex, or political, religious or other opinions. 2. To provide and assist in the provision of training opportunities for the said residents with a view to teaching particular skills which will assist such people in finding work. 3. To carry on business in manufacturing, construction, recycling and service industries with a view to furthering the objects above mentioned. 4. To purchase, take on lease or in exchange, hire or otherwise acquire, any property, heritable or movable, real or personal, which may be deemed necessary or convenient for any of the purposes of the company. 5. To draw, make, accept and endorse promissory notes, bills of exchange and other negotiable instruments. 6. To construct, maintain and alter any houses, buildings or works necessary or convenient for the purposes of the company. 7. To fue, sell, manage, lease, mortgage, exchange, dispose of or otherwise deal with all or any part of the property, heritable or movable, of the company as may be expedient with a view to the promotion of the objects. 8. To borrow and raise money for the purposes of the company in such manner as the company may think fit.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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