Overall GiG Score: 10 ?
Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 8
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8

ANNEXE COMMUNITIES 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition
  • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income was lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 37 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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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
Charitable activities
Donations & Legacies £441,706 £395,529 £370,718 £413,795
Other Income £3,000 £3,000 £3,000 £4,000 £5,000
Investment Income £150 £277 £410 £548 £952
Total income £472,651 £430,187 £412,381 £424,396 £400,162 £396,299
Charitable activities spending £373,516 £388,414 £414,549 £334,547 £403,645
Fundraising costs 10%
Other spending
Total spending £373,516 £388,414 £414,549 £334,547 £378,942 £440,745
Surplus/deficit £99,135 £41,773 -£2,168 £89,849 £21,220 -£44,446
What it does
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Who it helps
  • Older People
  • People with disabilities or health problems
  • Other defined groups','No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
Purposes
  • The prevention or relief of poverty
  • The advancement of education
  • 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
  • Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: 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
National Lottery Community Fund - Let Partick Flourish - socially made community interdependence
£96,972 14/07/2023
The group will use the funding to deliver the ‘Let Partick Flourish’ programme that aims to build the capacity of the local community by providing practical solutions to emerging issues at their ....more
Scottish Government - Annexe Communities
£6,240 16/06/2020
Detailed description not provided.
Scottish Government - Annexe Communities
£32,520 16/04/2020
Detailed description not provided.
National Lottery Community Fund - Younity Project
£336,577 31/01/2020
36
This group will use the funding over three years to help isolated and marginalised people living in Partick to become pro-active in their self development so that they can participate in their ....more
Glasgow City Council - Central & West Health Improvement Programme
£29,783 15/03/2019
Service will work in 6 neighbourhoods across central and west Glasgow. Activity will include walking groups, stress management activities, positive lifestyle workshops including budgeting and ....more
Glasgow City Council - Central & West Health Improvement Programme
£29,783 07/06/2018
Service will work in 6 neighbourhoods across central and west Glasgow. Activity will include walking groups, stress management activities, positive lifestyle workshops including budgeting and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Connecting Up Project
£141,291 26/05/2017
36
This group will use the funding to deliver new and additional services targeted at older people, people with mobility or restricted access needs, those with long term conditions, and for people ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Lipreading for Life
£10,000 08/09/2015
12
Lipreading for Life
Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations - Connecting Up Project
£4,525 05/12/2014
The project will embed learning basic digital skills in the healthy eating community cafe. A total of 64 older people will benefit by being more digitally informed and connected by learning to set ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Connects2 Project
£629,696 10/10/2014
60
Not Available
National Lottery Community Fund - Partick Annexe Healthy Living Centre (Community Spaces)
£236,781 20/02/2013
24
This group will refurbish the Partick Healthy Living Centre which they operate out of, making it more cost effective to run by replacing windows and installing a new energy efficient heating system.
National Lottery Community Fund - Annexe Connects
£323,773 02/02/2011
42
This project aims to improve the social and community interaction of two discrete groups of people within the Partick, Townhead and Anderston areas of west Glasgow, those with responsibilities as ....more
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How is it governed?

Directors (7)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 68-74
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 03/04/1987, number: SC002491
  • Registered at Companies House on 24/01/2001, number: SC215070
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

The Annexe HLC, 9a Stewartville Street, Glasgow, G11 5PE

Objectives

(a) The relief of poverty among residents living within the boundaries Partick and Thornwood, G11 postcode area ('the Operating Area') (b) To promote the provision of facilities for the recreation and other leisure time occupations of the residents of the Operating Area in the interests of social welfare with the object of improving their conditions of life. (c) To advance education among the residents of the Operating Area, particularly among young people and the unemployed. (d) To promote and/or provide training in skills of all kinds, particularly such skills as will assist residents of the Operating Area in obtaining paid employment. (e) To promote, establish and operate other schemes of a charitable nature for the benefit of the community within the Operating Area.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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