Overall GiG Score: 3 ?
Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 4
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • Grant maker support: +4

    HAWKHILL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION 

    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
    • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation

    Financial issues to consider:

    • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
    Established: 36 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    UN SDGs
    ?
    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 £30,449 £58,060
    Donations & Legacies £5,242 £209,321
    Other Income £212,932
    Investment Income
    Total income £227,995 £207,143 £250,191 £165,336 £307,926 £274,580
    Charitable activities spending £215,844 £349,924
    Fundraising costs 0%
    Other spending £11,759
    Total spending £240,114 £248,070 £227,721 £247,992 £328,707 £349,924
    Surplus/deficit -£12,119 -£40,927 £22,470 -£82,656 -£20,781 -£75,344
    What it does
    • It carries out activities or services itself
    Who it helps
    • Children or young people
    • Older People
    • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
    Purposes
    • The advancement of education
    • The advancement of health
    • The advancement of citizenship or community development','the advancement of public participation in sport','the advancement of environmental protection or improvement
    Where it operates
    • Clackmannanshire
    • This charity is based in an area of extremely 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 - Hawkhill development
    £4,500 22/03/2021
    11
    The group carry out research activity related to the construction of a Multi Use Games Area and cycle pump track in the grounds of their community building in Alloa.
    Scottish Government - Hawkhill Community Association
    £14,915 15/04/2020
    Detailed description not provided.
    National Lottery Community Fund - Hawkhill generations working together
    £5,304 15/04/2020
    5
    This group will use the funding to undertake a programme of gardening and cooking activities that will bring local people together at their Alloa centre.
    National Lottery Community Fund - Hawkhill Community Association
    £150,000 26/01/2018
    36
    The group will be able to run a wide ranging programme of activities for local people including a job club, homework club and a range of youth and community events which will run from the local ....more
    Robertson Trust - The Running Costs of Hawkhill Community Centre
    £26,000 21/11/2017
    The Running Costs of Hawkhill Community Centre

    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in Scotland on 22/01/1988, number: SC006797
    Filing Record
    5 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    Hawkhill Community Centre, 132 Hillcrest Drive, Alloa, UK Mainland, FK10 1SB

    Objectives

    (a) To promote the benefit of the inhabitants of Hawkhill and environs by associating the Local Authorities, voluntary organisations, and inhabitants in a common effort to advance education, and to provide facilities in the interest of social welfare for recreation and leisure time occupation with the object of improving the conditions of life for the said inhabitants. (b) To secure the establishment of a Community Centre and to co-operate with the Local Statutory Authority in the maintenance and management of the Centre, for the activities promoted by the Association in the furtherance of the above objects or any of them. (c) The Association shall be non-party in politics and non-secretarian in religion.

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator
    360 Giving
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