Overall GiG Score: 14 ?
Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 10
  • Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -2 times
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10

INVERCLYDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition
  • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation

Financial issues to consider:

  • Accounts have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years
  • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Established: 35 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 £3,689,530 £2,538,247 £2,033,435 £1,838,505 £1,919,751
Donations & Legacies
Other Income
Investment Income
Total income £3,724,458 £2,572,550 £2,063,020 £1,838,505 £2,321,179 £1,998,675
Charitable activities spending £3,615,899 £2,838,899 £2,363,482 £1,884,812 £1,914,039
Fundraising costs 1% 1% 0% 1%
Other spending £35,799 £3,619 £2,729 £1,129
Total spending £3,651,698 £2,861,671 £2,384,107 £1,884,812 £2,222,587 £1,942,375
Surplus/deficit £72,760 -£289,121 -£321,087 -£46,307 £98,592 £56,300
What it does
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Who it helps
  • Older People
  • 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','the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science','the advancement of environmental protection or improvement','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
  • Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: Inverclyde
  • 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£306,536
Scottish Government£147,306
National Lottery Heritage Fund£93,290
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Inverclyde Community Development Trust
£14,290 15/11/2021
#Digital8 Digital Heritage Skills: Telling Inverclyde’s Story on Wikipedia
Scottish Government - Inverclyde Community Development Trust
£57,306 13/10/2021
Detailed description not provided.
National Lottery Community Fund - Zero Waste Community Pantry
£149,456 14/09/2021
The organisation will establish a community membership-led zero waste pantry in Port Glasgow.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Inverclyde Community Development Trust
£79,000 05/08/2021
Inverclyde’s Legacies of Slavery and Empire
National Lottery Community Fund - Community Care and Connections
£157,080 11/02/2021
23
This group will use the funding over 2 years for their ‘Community Care and Connections’ project which aims to tackle isolation and loneliness through befriending cycling and arts programmes . ....more
Scottish Government - Inverclyde Community Development Trust
£25,000 10/02/2021
Detailed description not provided.
Scottish Government - Inverclyde Community Development Trust
£25,000 27/01/2021
Detailed description not provided.
Scottish Government - Inverclyde Community Development Trust
£40,000 22/04/2020
Detailed description not provided.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Inverclyde Community Development Trust
£39,100 26/11/2018
Sharing Stories
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Inverclyde Community Development Trust
£6,186 19/11/2018
Help us research and create training and promotional materials to get more older people to volunteer.
Nesta - AC00841
£26,500 07/11/2018
11
ShareLab Scotland programme grant to Inverclyde Community Development Trust Grant Ref AC00841
Robertson Trust - The salary costs of the Food to Fork Project Workers
£31,000 21/11/2017
The salary costs of the Food to Fork Project Workers
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Inverclyde Community Development Trust
£28,500 23/01/2014
Working The War
National Lottery Community Fund - Chit Chat
£156,237 09/11/2011
48
The 'Chit Chat' project, funded through the'Our Place' programme, will benefit 320 people in Greenock Central /East over four years. The project will increase the social inclusion of older people by ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (7)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 39-73
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 21/02/1989, number: SC007212
  • Registered at Companies House on 21/02/1989, number: SC116334
Filing Record
5 returns made; AR21: 63 days late, AR20: 64 days late,
Main office

Westburn Centre, 175 Dalrymple Street, Greenock, PA15 1JZ

Objectives

1) To relieve poverty among residents of the area served by Inverclyde Council, ('the Operating Area') 2) To advance education among the residents of the Operating Area, particularly among young people and the unemployed. 3) To promote andlor provide training in skills of all kinds, particularly such skills as will assist the residents of the Operating Area in obtaining paid employment. 4) To relieve the needs of persons suffering from mental or physical disability, illness or impairment or old age. 5) To promote other schemes of a charitable nature for the benefit of the residents of the Operating Area. 6) To promote trade and industry, for the benefit of the general public.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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