Overall GiG Score: -11 ?
Finance Score: -6
Governance Score: -10
Support Score: 5
  • Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -2 times
  • Spending declining: -1
  • Volatile income: -3
  • No PartB
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Static board: -3
  • All female board: -3
  • Grant maker support: +5

ORCADIA MOVEMENT LTD 

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

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 3 trustees
  • The Board is completely female
  • The Board composition appears to be rather static and has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • Accounts have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years
  • Spending is declining
  • Income has been volatile recently
Established: 32 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 30/04/17 30/04/18 30/04/19 30/04/20 30/04/21 30/04/22
Total income £293,404 £355,323 £292,835 £312,162 £220,544 £209,506
Total spending £293,299 £298,300 £340,575 £315,108 £210,189 £205,571
Surplus/deficit £105 £57,023 -£47,740 -£2,946 £10,355 £3,935
What it does
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Who it helps
  • Children or young people
  • Older People
  • People with disabilities or health problems
Purposes
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
  • The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage','any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes
Where it operates
  • More than one local authority area in Scotland, main operating location: Midlothian

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£15,105
Foundation Scotland£5,000
Corra Foundation£3,527
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Orcadia Movement Ltd
£5,000 30/01/2023
Donation from Ward Family Fund
Scottish Government - Orcadia Movement Ltd
£15,105 30/04/2020
Detailed description not provided.
Corra Foundation - HDG-19/380
£3,527 01/06/2019
Towards the costs of the Healthy Living classes and to close the appeal.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Orcadia Movement
£13,000 18/05/2018
refurbishment of toilets for a charity which works with people with learning disabilities in Edinburgh
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000 15/01/2018
Kitchen and toilets renovation
Robertson Trust - The Salary Costs of the Senior Arts Tutor
£22,000 21/11/2017
The Salary Costs of the Senior Arts Tutor
Corra Foundation - HDA-17/326
£6,000 03/08/2017
towards the salary of the new 30hr/wk Activities Co-ordinator conditional upon written confirmation that the appointment has been made
Corra Foundation - HDA-16/166
£3,342 07/04/2016
towards the cost of materials and equipment for the arts, photography and filmmaking classes, to close the appeal
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (3)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 67-71
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 17/12/1991, number: SC019623
  • Registered at Companies House on 08/04/1997, number: SC174188
Filing Record
5 returns made; AR21: 15 days late, AR20: 89 days late,
Main office

Abercorn School, Newton, Browburn, West Lothian, EH52 6PZ

Objectives

(a) To relieve the sickness, distress and suffering and generally promote the benefit of persons with special needs and/or learning difficulties. (b) To advance the education of persons with special needs and/or learning difficulties through the imparting of expressive arts skills as a tool to enable the recipient, irrespective of disability, to improve his/her conditions of life by utilising these new communicative skills in whatever form he/she desires. (c) To advance education by associating and integrating persons with severe learning difficulties, profound physical and/or mental handicaps and persons without disabilities. and (d) To promote and support the conservation and restoration of the natural environment, and the relief of human suffering

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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