Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 0
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: 6 ?

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Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition
  • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation
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 £2,048,973 £2,643,265 £2,643,470 £2,645,114 £3,786,266
Donations & Legacies £10,030 £33 £46 £25,000 £130,224
Other Income
Investment Income £125,453 £131,287 £116,043 £133,575 £79,438
Total income £3,210,352 £3,955,898 £3,759,634 £3,301,764 £4,341,345 £5,004,525
Charitable activities spending £1,901,546 £2,420,144 £2,364,031 £2,487,483 £4,714,210
Fundraising costs 43% 37% 37% 27%
Other spending
Total spending £3,218,242 £3,839,210 £3,694,520 £3,342,416 £3,999,965 £4,714,210
Surplus/deficit -£7,890 £116,688 £65,114 -£40,652 £341,380 £290,315
Established: 33 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
GiG Classification
  • Community services
Purposes
  • The prevention or relief of poverty
  • The advancement of education
Where it operates
  • Midlothian
  • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation
Who it helps
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Directors (8)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 41-73
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 11/02/1991, number: SC016874
  • Notes: IX. To relieve those in need by reason of age or ill health through operating care for the elderly and infirm services and the provision of training and employment opportunities. X. To advance citizenship for the community and its membership by promoting, establishing and operating other schemes of a charitable nature.
  • Registered at Companies House on 06/02/1991, number: SC129794
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

32 Sycamore Road, Mayfield, Dalkeith, Midlothian, EH22 5TA

Objectives

I. To prevent and relieve poverty by training for work skills, up-skilling the community through training and development to enhance employment opportunities, encouraging fair trade, self employment and entrepreneurial skills and by providing direct grants to individuals or constituted groups within the community who are in need. II. To improve education by operating training programmes and working with schools, colleges and other educational providers to promote and provide educational opportunities for community members. III. To advance community development by the management of community land and associated assets for the benefit of the Community and the public in general following principles of sustainable development, where sustainable development means development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. IV. To advance community development through regeneration of the community by the maintenance or improvement of the physical and economic infrastructure and by assisting people who are at a disadvantage because of their economic circumstances. V. To provide, or assist in providing, recreational facilities, and/or organising recreational activities, which will be available to members of the public at large with the object of improving the conditions of life of the Community and following principles of sustainable development, by operating community owned facilities. VI. To advance rural and urban regeneration of the community following principles of sustainable development by developing and managing community land and built environment assets. VII. To advance the environmental, cultural and/or historical knowledge of the community through the education of its members. VIII. To promote civic responsibility within the community by the advancement of environmental protection or improvement including preservation, and conservation of the natural environment, the promotion of sustainable development, the maintenance, improvement or provision of environmental amenities for the community and/or the preservation of buildings or sites of architectural, historic or other importance to the community.

Data Sources

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