Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: -2
Support Score: 4
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • No PartB
  • Very static board: -5
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +4
Overall GiG Score: -3 ?

RIGHT TRACK SCOTLAND LTD (SUBJECT TO INSOLVENCY PROCEEDINGS) 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board composition appears to be very static

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 28 years
(40 years as a company)
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/03/17 31/03/18 31/03/19 31/03/20 31/03/21 31/03/22 31/03/23
Charitable activities £585,334 £674,281 £703,220 £768,407 £456,013
Donations & Legacies £104,388 £7,100 £30,016 £118,663 £81,960
Other Income
Investment Income
Total income £990,404 £689,722 £681,381 £733,236 £932,093 £823,121 £538,270
Charitable activities spending £751,057 £646,181 £662,206 £597,714 £786,429
Fundraising costs 0% 0%
Other spending £188,896
Total spending £1,039,002 £751,309 £646,433 £662,206 £786,610 £773,041 £786,429
Surplus/deficit -£48,598 -£61,587 £34,948 £71,030 £145,483 £50,080 -£248,159
Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Purposes
  • The advancement of education
Where it operates
  • More than one local authority area in Scotland, main operating location: Glasgow City
Who it helps
  • Children or young people

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
Scottish Government£45,524
Garfield Weston Foundation£10,000
National Lottery Community Fund£4,127
The Clothworkers Foundation£3,600
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Scottish Government - Right Track Scotland Ltd
£9,000 04/03/2021
Detailed description not provided.
Scottish Government - Right Track Scotland Ltd
£13,208 03/02/2021
Detailed description not provided.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000 14/08/2020
Launchpad - Coping and Resilience
CAF - Grant to Right Track Scotland Ltd
£2,668 29/06/2020
3
Grant to Right Track Scotland Ltd to support the organisation through COVID19
Scottish Government - Right Track Scotland Ltd
£23,316 20/05/2020
Detailed description not provided.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Right Track Scotland
£3,600 20/04/2020
COVID19 : purchase IT equipment for a charity that works with disadvantaged young people in North Lanarkshire
National Lottery Community Fund - Maintaining Links during COVID19
£4,127 15/04/2020
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This group will use funding to purchase IT equipment which will allow them to support vulnerable young people and their families during the COVID-19 crisis. The group will provide creative learning ....more
Robertson Trust - The running costs of the Launchpad programme
£16,000 12/03/2019
The running costs of the Launchpad programme
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 21/11/2017
Education Initiative - Skills for the Future
Robertson Trust - The Challenge Life Project
£15,000 31/01/2016
The Challenge Life Project
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (5)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 53-74
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 24/10/1996, number: SC017314
  • Registered at Companies House on 14/06/1983, number: SC083509
Filing Record
5 returns made; AR20: 248 days late,
Main office

2nd Florr, Bothwell Street, Glasgow, G26NU

Objectives

The objects for which the Company is established are firstly to assist young people over statutory school leaving age who have need of education to enable them to develop their physical mental and spiritual capacities so that they ,may grow to maturity as responsible members of society and that their conditions of life may be improved and secondly, to carry out research into the problems and methods of education of such people and to publish the useful results of such research.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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