Overall GiG Score: 12 ?
Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 2
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +2

WOODEND ARTS LIMITED 

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
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 30 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 £262,481 £241,759 £269,957 £267,515 £251,866
Donations & Legacies £64,592 £179,031 £25,297 £144,661 £38,210
Other Income £1,213
Investment Income £49 £57 £67 £19 £524
Total income £416,321 £533,303 £443,861 £435,413 £415,029 £391,700
Charitable activities spending £411,296 £430,043 £457,484 £355,603 £437,082
Fundraising costs 1% 4% 6% 0% 2% 5%
Other spending £3,528 £33,749
Total spending £415,525 £453,090 £484,113 £361,149 £428,237 £489,823
Surplus/deficit £796 £80,213 -£40,252 £74,264 -£13,208 -£98,123
What it does
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Who it helps
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
Purposes
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
  • The provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended
Where it operates
  • Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: Aberdeenshire

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.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Barn
£1,643 23/10/2021
Our project gives people access to activities and creative learning opportunities.
Foundation Scotland - Phase One Lighting Upgrade Project
£15,000 24/06/2020
To replace and upgrade Stage Lighting and House Lights from halogen to LED.
Robertson Trust - The Costs of the Learning & Engagement Programme
£37,500 31/08/2015
The Costs of the Learning & Engagement Programme

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (5)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 34-59
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 30/05/1994, number: SC022620
  • Registered at Companies House on 24/01/2011, number: SC392079
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

The Barn , Burn O'Bennie, Banchory, Kincardineshire, AB31 5QA

Objectives

4 The company’s objects are: 1) To advance the arts with a particular focus on exploring the earth we inhabit and the environment we share with other living organisms. 2) To encourage diversity by nourishing and interconnecting the public (audiences, partners and communities of interest) and their multiple perspectives. 3) To grow the organisation and its public through programmes of education and research. 4) To provide facilities for the practice and performance of the arts. 5) To do such things considered by the directors to be conducive to the above objects. 5 The company’s objects are restricted to those set out in article 4 (but subject to article 6). 6 The company may (subject to first obtaining the consent of OSCR) add to, remove or alter the statement of the company’s objects in article 4. on any occasion when it does so, it must give notice to the registrar of companies and the amendment will not be effective until that notice is registered on the register of companies.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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