Overall GiG Score: 2 ?
Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 4
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Grant maker support: +4

EDINBURGH HEADWAY GROUP 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age
  • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Established: 40 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
Total income £251,138 £296,246 £278,898 £336,420 £313,727 £243,643
Total spending £240,224 £303,768 £329,269 £302,214 £329,659 £285,073
Surplus/deficit £10,914 -£7,522 -£50,371 £34,206 -£15,932 -£41,430
What it does
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Who it helps
  • People with disabilities or health problems
Purposes
  • The advancement of health
  • The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
  • Any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes
Where it operates
  • More than one local authority area in Scotland, main operating location: City of Edinburgh
  • 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
Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations - Digital Inclusion for people with an Acquired Brain Injury
£3,768 17/05/2021
Detailed information not yet available.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Edinburgh Headway Group
£2,898 24/04/2020
To cover the cost of laptops for staff to work effectively from home to support their members with brain injuries and art supplies to enable them to continue with their art therapy programme at home ....more
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Edinburgh Headway Group
£15,000 05/12/2018
New kitchen for people with acquired brain injuries
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Edinburgh Headway Group
£10,000 21/06/2018
YOYP Youth Club for Young People with an Acquired Brain Injury
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Discharge planning for people with brain injury
£21,000 25/05/2016
To ensure people with a brain injury quickly engage with suitable and ongoing rehabilitation and support following discharge from hospital. Together with the individual and hospital discharge team ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (5)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 45-65
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 07/06/1984, number: SC006528
  • Registered at Companies House on 30/04/1992, number: SC138081
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

Edinburgh Headway Group, Unit 4, 27 Peffer Place, Edinburgh, EH16 4BB

Objectives

The objects of the Company are (i) The rehabilitation and support of and concern for adults who have suffered a brain injury which was sudden in onset after birth and the neo-natal period (an Acquired Brain Injury) but excluding always (a) brain damage of inherited or congenital origin or progressive degenerative diseases of the central nervous system and (b) anyone who is cognitively or behaviourally compromised or otherwise unsuited to the service provided by the Company, priority always being given to persons who have suffered a traumatic head injury (ii) the suppoa of and concern for their caring relatives and (iii) in furtherance thereof the promotion, provision, extension and publicising of all forms of such rehabilitation support and concern.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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