Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 0
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: 3 ?

ISLE OF MUCK COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE LIMITED 

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Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 4 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/07/17 31/07/18 31/07/19 31/07/20 31/07/21 31/07/22 31/07/23
Total income £36,462 £41,680 £34,000 £51,000 £31,000 £56,000 £56,767
Total spending £93,180 £83,382 £79,000 £79,000 £86,000 £76,000 £76,032
Surplus/deficit -£56,718 -£41,702 -£45,000 -£28,000 -£55,000 -£20,000 -£19,265
Established: 32 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • Community services
Purposes
  • The prevention or relief of poverty
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of citizenship or community development','the advancement of environmental protection or improvement
Where it operates
  • Highland
Who it helps
  • Children or young people
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Who supports 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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Isle of Muck Power Scheme
£978,840 26/03/2012
36
This project will develop a community-owned electricity generation scheme based on renewables technologies for the Isle of Muck, which is not connected to the National Grid. More affordable reliable ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Isle of Muck Power Scheme
£12,014 21/09/2011
12
This group received development funding for a Power Scheme Project that would benefit the community of the Isle of Muck by providing them with affordable and reliable 24 hour electrical power.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (4)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 33-77
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 20/07/1992, number: SC020510
  • Registered at Companies House on 20/07/1992, number: SC139386
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

Port Mor House, Port Mor, Isle Of Muck, By Mallaig, Inverness-shire, PH41 2RP

Objectives

to relieve poverty among the residents of the Isle of Muck (hereinafter referred to as the 'Area of Benefit'), to advance education among the residents of the Area of Benefit particularly among young people and the unemployed, (c) to promote and/or provide training in skills of all kinds, particularly such skills as will assist residents of the Area of Benefit in obtaining paid employment, to promote, establish and operate other schemes of a charitable nature for the benefit of the community within the Area of Benefit, to promote trade and industry, for the benefit of the general public.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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