Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 6
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

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Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • 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 extremely high deprivation
Established: 106 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 £5,946,057 £8,325,350 £10,082,449 £11,019,295 £10,669,520
Donations & Legacies £19,236 £11,182 £17,052 £25,231 £34,111
Other Income
Investment Income £8,360 £1,630 £1,208
Total income £5,973,653 £8,336,532 £10,101,131 £11,045,734 £10,125,762 £10,703,631
Charitable activities spending £5,997,370 £8,190,030 £9,751,808 £10,678,481 £10,679,643
Fundraising costs
Other spending £174,593 £18,085
Total spending £5,997,370 £8,190,030 £9,751,808 £10,853,074 £11,486,129 £10,697,728
Surplus/deficit -£23,717 £146,502 £349,323 £192,660 -£1,360,367 £5,903
Listed activities
  • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Purposes
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of citizenship or community development
  • The promotion of religious or racial harmony','the promotion of equality and diversity','the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Where it operates
  • More than one local authority area in Scotland, main operating location: Glasgow City
  • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation
Who it helps
  • Children or young people
  • People with disabilities or health problems
  • People with a particular ethnic or racial origin','Other defined groups

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£508,252
Scottish Government£36,782
Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations£4,975
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations - Level Up Digital
£4,975 17/05/2021
Detailed information not yet available.
National Lottery Community Fund - Digital for All
£9,920 12/11/2020
10
This group provide support to people experiencing and/or at risk homelessness. Over the next six months the group will provide 90 phones with one month of unlimited data texts and calls as well as 68 ....more
Scottish Government - Ypeople
£36,782 18/05/2020
Detailed description not provided.
National Lottery Community Fund - People First
£498,332 12/05/2019
24
This group will use funding to champion a modern approach to homelessness that no longer segregates people from their communities and away from the places and people who are familiar to them. The ....more
Glasgow City Council - The Calm Project
£52,784 05/03/2019
To work with young people aged 12-21 in terms of mental wellbeing support, counselling support and befriending and specifically with those young people involved in violent, negative activities ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Ypeople
£9,900 08/08/2018
YOYP New Young Peers Scotland - Partners in Mental Health
Glasgow City Council - The Calm Project
£52,784 06/06/2018
To work with young people aged 12-21 in terms of mental wellbeing support, counselling support and befriending and specifically with those young people involved in violent, negative activities ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to YPeople (Calm Project)
£71,826 11/10/2016
36
This project will provide a counselling and mentoring supported by group work for 115 young people referred by Community Safety Glasgow. It will increase confidence, broaden horizons and help to ....more
Robertson Trust - The Calm Project
£36,000 31/10/2015
The Calm Project
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (9)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split
Based on 8/9 persons

Age Range of Directors: 30-70
  • HOWELL, Leeh
    Appointed: 2021
    Occupation: Community Justice Coordinator
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 03/04/1918, number: SC017093
  • Notes: Previous name YMCA Glasgow from 03-04-1918 to 31-07-2018 Previous legal name Ypeople from 31-07-2018 to 07/04/2022
  • Registered at Companies House on 28/02/2011, number: SC394447
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

15 , Dava Street, Glasgow, G51 2JA

Objectives

(The company’s objects are:- (a) To support positive change in people's lives. (b) To promote equality and diversity and racial harmony based on equal value of all persons. (c) To promote the intellectual, social and physical well-being of all people who are deemed to need our service. (d) To advance education to enable people to improve their understanding of the world, of themselves and of one another. (e) To advance citizenship and community development to encourage the involvement of people in the care and work for others. (f) To relieve those in need by reason of their age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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