Overall GiG Score: 22 ?
Finance Score: 4
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 9
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9

COMPASS THERAPY SUPPORT COMMUNITY LIMITED 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are 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 high deprivation
Established: 34 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 £154,261 £229,470 £289,119 £289,222
Donations & Legacies £72,907 £33,717 £69,660
Other Income £105
Investment Income £617 £610 £515
Total income £261,021 £265,698 £229,799 £293,796 £387,167 £382,933
Charitable activities spending £224,879 £222,902 £297,033 £372,983
Fundraising costs 2% 6% 4% 7%
Other spending
Total spending £240,598 £230,529 £241,655 £239,186 £313,481 £397,867
Surplus/deficit £20,423 £35,169 -£11,856 £54,610 £73,686 -£14,934
What it does
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Who it helps
  • People with disabilities or health problems
Purposes
  • The advancement of health
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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£87,067
Scottish Government£84,940
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust£41,500
Garfield Weston Foundation£20,000
Foundation Scotland£8,350
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Recovery and Stabilisation
£36,000 24/11/2021
Seeking funding to support recovery, transition, and growth. Widening access, increasing service accessibility to people living with neurological conditions represented in new, more inclusive trading ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Wellbeing Support Service
£77,067 20/09/2021
This organisation will use the funding to create a new Wellbeing Service at their Edinburgh Centre. This will help their clients who have MS or other neurological conditions access support for their ....more
Scottish Government - Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre Lothian Limited
£71,500 18/03/2021
Detailed description not provided.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 12/02/2021
MS Therapy Centre Lothian Core Funding
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Strategy and Service Development Support
£5,500 05/10/2020
Seeking funding to employ an external consultant to provide necessary expertise and skills to help create a specific action plan with focused service development to ensure continuation to meet the ....more
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Compass Therapy Support Community
£4,600 02/09/2020
To contribute to the purchase of new equipment to deliver remote therapy sessions to vulnerable and high risk people, living with MS and other long term conditions, living in Edinburgh and the ....more
Scottish Government - Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre Lothian Limited
£13,440 22/06/2020
Detailed description not provided.
National Lottery Community Fund - COVID 19 Digital Support Services
£10,000 12/05/2020
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This group will use the funding to provide a wider range of targeted digital services to meet a growing client demand for support for people living with MS and other long-term health conditions.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Compass Therapy Support Community
£3,750 22/04/2020
To enable MS Therapy Centre Lothian to establish a Volunteer Telephone Support Service, ?Have a Natter?, to support their clients who are shielding and/or isolating at this time.
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Physiotherapy Service Development
£13,305 30/05/2018
Supporting the development and enhancement of specialist physiotherapy services to aid self-management programmes for people living with MS and other neurological conditions
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - GALA SASS
£10,721 30/11/2016
Create and deliver a weekly 'pop-up' centre delivering self-management therapies, activities and services to people living with neurological conditions in the Scottish Borders. One to one ....more
Robertson Trust - the Project Support Worker
£30,000 31/08/2015
the Project Support Worker
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (6)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 29-66
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 09/02/1990, number: SC014991
  • Notes: previous name - Multiple Sclerosis Therapy Centre Lothian Limited from 09/02/1990 to 20/04/2023
  • Registered at Companies House on 09/02/1990, number: SC122837
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

40c Swanfield, Edinburgh, EH6 5RX

Objectives

6. The Objects for which the Company is founded are: To aid and improve for the public benefit in the Area of Benefit the condition of those suffering from long-term neurological conditions, including multiple sclerosis, their families and carers, as well as people living with other long or short term health conditions by any lawful means including any of the following means: i. To deliver co-ordinated, holistic and person-centred therapies, support and advice services to people living with long-term neurological conditions (including Multiple Sclerosis) and their families / carers assisting them in addressing the physical, psychological and emotional issues affecting them. ii. To work with, and for, people living with long-term neurological conditions (including Multiple Sclerosis) actively engaging them in decisions that affect their lives with due regard to respect and choice, to develop social, mental and emotional confidence that empowers them to make informed choices about all aspects of their lives. iii. To improve physical, mental, emotional and social health and well being of people living with long-term neurological conditions (including Multiple Sclerosis) and their families / carers to achieve their potential, and ensuring that they have the confidence and capacity to be active members and contributors in their local communities and civil society. iv. To offer therapies to people living with other long or short term health conditions where it is shown they may benefit from these and where there is sufficient capacity available

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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