Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • All male board: -3
  • Grant maker support: +2
Overall GiG Score: 0 ?

CLYDESDALE COUNSELLING AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT PROJECT 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is completely male

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
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
Total income £12,015 £12,988 £10,276 £14,430 £490 £490 £12,010
Total spending £12,464 £13,035 £13,866 £5,838 £4,683 £4,683 £12,224
Surplus/deficit -£449 -£47 -£3,590 £8,592 -£4,193 -£4,193 -£214
Established: 30 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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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
GiG Classification
  • Other specialist outpatient services
Purposes
  • The advancement of health
  • The advancement of citizenship or community development
  • The advancement of human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation','the promotion of equality and diversity
Where it operates
  • Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: South Lanarkshire
Who it helps
  • Children or young people
  • Older People
  • People with disabilities or health problems','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 - Clydesdale Continues to Care Project
£10,000 01/12/2022
The grant will fund free counselling therapy sessions and the delivery of therapeutic peer support groups for the people of Clydesdale.
National Lottery Community Fund - Clydesdale cares project
£10,000 13/10/2021
The grant will fund free counselling therapy sessions and the development of therapeutic peer support groups for the people of Clydesdale.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (3)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 42-67
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 14/12/1994, number: SC023208
  • Registered at Companies House on 24/03/1999, number: SC194565
Filing Record
5 returns made; AR18: 19 days late,
Main office

, ML8 4HA

Objectives

(a) To promote and provide education and training for counsellors working in either professional or voluntary settings, whether full or part time, with a view to raising the standards of counselling for the benefit of the community and in particular for those who are recipients of counselling within Clydesdale, Lanarkshire and environs (b) To advance the education and to raise the awareness of the public in the part that counselling can play generally and in particular to meet the needs of those members of society whose development is impaired by mental, physical or social handicap or disability or any temporary distress whether of emotional or situational nature within Clydesdale, Lanarkshire and environs (c) To promote social welfare and allieviate human suffering and distress by offering opportunities for counselling, psychotherapy, personal and professional development to the inhabitants of Clydesdale, Lanarkshire and environs, without distinction of wealth, race, sex, religion, or other opinions

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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