Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 8
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 17 ?

WOODLANDS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition
Established: 39 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/12/17 31/12/18 31/12/19 31/12/20 31/12/21 31/12/22
Charitable activities
Donations & Legacies £286,110
Other Income £4,000 £5,000
Investment Income £17 £183
Total income £277,867 £192,510 £200,195 £295,247 £304,982 £314,346
Charitable activities spending £277,846 £281,991
Fundraising costs 0% 0% 1%
Other spending
Total spending £187,562 £201,933 £185,110 £278,775 £300,241 £285,123
Surplus/deficit £90,305 -£9,423 £15,085 £16,472 £4,741 £29,223
Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Purposes
  • The prevention or relief of poverty
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of religion','the advancement of health','the advancement of citizenship or community development','the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science','the promotion of religious or racial harmony','the advancement of environmental protection or improvement
Where it operates
  • Glasgow City
Who it helps
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

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£150,215
Scottish Government£58,943
Virgin Money Foundation£30,000
J J Charitable Trust£10,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
J J Charitable Trust - Towards its community garden, Veg Box scheme and Warm Welcome Café
£10,000 07/03/2023
Towards its community garden, Veg Box scheme and Warm Welcome Café
National Lottery Community Fund - Woodlands Community - Together for one another
£130,225 28/02/2022
This group will use funds to support its Community Gardening activities its workshop space and its calendar of community events with the vast majority of activity taking place across the group’s ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Tackling climate anxiety - Family Support Project
£9,995 07/12/2021
This group will use funds to deliver a 1 year project focussed on addressing climate anxiety in families with young children.
National Lottery Community Fund - Esther Brown Memorial Project
£9,995 13/08/2021
This group will use funds to deliver a programme of targeted peer support groups and broader mental health/wellbeing work.
Virgin Money Foundation - Grant to Woodlands Community Development Trust
£30,000 01/04/2021
12
Grant to provide opportunities and resources to help local people cope with the impacts of the Covid pandemic whilst its ongoing, and to enable them to recover in the aftermath.
Scottish Government - Woodlands Community Development Trust
£12,458 04/02/2021
Detailed description not provided.
Scottish Government - Woodlands Community Development Trust
£13,485 15/05/2020
Detailed description not provided.
Scottish Government - Woodlands Community Development Trust
£33,000 16/04/2020
Detailed description not provided.
Robertson Trust - The Community Outreach Worker
£10,000 28/03/2019
The Community Outreach Worker
National Lottery Community Fund - Woodlands Community Development Trust
£130,871 18/02/2019
36
This group will use the funding to continue providing opportunities for local people to get involved in an array of community activities and workshops in Woodlands, Glasgow. The project will be ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Woodlands Workspace - Bringing the Community Together
£9,775 26/02/2018
12
This project, based in the West End of Glasgow, will provide a series of community events to promote the newly opened ‘Woodlands Workspace’. The activities will be spread over a six month period ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Woodlands Community Development Trust
£148,923 09/03/2016
36
Woodlands Community Development Trust
Robertson Trust - The Salary Costs of the Manager
£30,000 31/10/2015
The Salary Costs of the Manager
Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations - Woodlands Community Garden - Local Food Social Support Hub
£3,145 03/07/2015
Detailed information not yet available.
Robertson Trust - the Woodlands Workspace Project
£20,000 28/02/2015
the Woodlands Workspace Project
National Lottery Community Fund - Woodlands Community Garden - Local Food and Social Support Hubs
£121,294 25/06/2013
24
Funded through Support and Connect Woodlands Community Devlopment this groups project will provide in partnership with other local organisations free healthy food, host cookery classes, use food to ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Exploring the Land - Food, Families and Fun
£10,000 16/04/2013
12
Exploring the Land - Food, Families and Fun
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (8)
Current Directors appointed

Age Range of Directors: 34-81
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 23/07/1985, number: SC008741
  • Registered at Companies House on 27/03/1985, number: SC092463
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

66 Ashley Street, Glasgow, G3 6HW

Objectives

The Trust's objects are:- (1)To promote urban regeneration and the redevelopment and revitalisation of the area of Woodlands (which area is bounded on the south by Woodlands Road and Eldon Street, on the west by the River Kelvin, on the north by Great Western Road, and on the east by St Georges Road) and neighbouring areas ('the Operating Area'), all for the benefit of the residents of the Operating Area without distinction as to their race, age, gender, religion, or political or other Opinions. (2) To relieve unemployment for the public benefit among people resident in the Operating Area in such ways as may be thought fit, including assistance to find employment. (3) To promote education and advance health among people resident in the Operating Area. (4) To advance environmental protection and improvement for the benefit of the general public and in particular, people resident in the Operating Area. (5) To advance the arts, heritage and culture of the Operating Area. (6) To advance citizenship among people resident in the Operating Area. (7) To promote religious and racial harmony and to promote equality and diversity among peop le resident in the Operating Area. (8) To promote and/or support other similar projects and programmes, which further charitable purposes, for the benefit of people resident in the Operating Area.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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