Finance Score: 1

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 1

Reasonable growth: +1
No PartB

(no info on trustees)

Grant maker support: +1

Overall GiG Score: 2

CARERS CENTRES PROJECT FOR DUMFRIES & GALLOWAY

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation

Established: 29 years

www.dgalcarers.co.uk

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	£183,890	£469,832	£204,171	£350,777		£505,306
Donations & Legacies	£256,581		£254,448	£243,075		£286,244
Other Income	£2,102		£1,224
Investment Income	£1,785		£2,688	£3,303		£2,217
Total income	£444,358	£469,832	£462,531	£597,155	£803,787	£793,767
Charitable activities spending	£453,765	£453,003	£460,265	£521,821		£745,586
Fundraising costs
Other spending
Total spending	£453,765	£453,003	£460,265	£521,821	£624,290	£745,586
Surplus/deficit	-£9,407	£16,829	£2,266	£75,334	£179,497	£48,181

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Listed activities

It carries out activities or services itself

Purposes

The advancement of education
The advancement of health
The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage

Where it operates

Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: Dumfries And Galloway

This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation

Who it helps

Children or young people
Older People
Other defined groups

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
Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations - Dumfries and Galloway Carers Centre
£6,900	29/04/2020	Detailed information not yet available.
Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations - Dumfries & Galloway Carers Centre
£2,840	29/07/2019	This application is for funding to enable a 4 day course to be provided to staff to aid staff development, build staff resilience and further develop emotional intelligence. Carers Centre staff ....more This application is for funding to enable a 4 day course to be provided to staff to aid staff development, build staff resilience and further develop emotional intelligence. Carers Centre staff endeavour to provide a service based on our core values, see above: Over the last few years the service has become increasingly busy with increasing numbers of Carers. Last year support was provided to over 1400 individual Carers and Young Carers with 725 of these being new to the service. In turn the complexity of the cases that staff are dealing with has increased and this puts added pressure on the staff. In preparation of for the Carers Act implementation prior to April 2018 all staff have completed Good Conversations training and more recently training on Psychological Approaches to providing One to One Support. The organisation would like to invest in the staff skills and competencies by providing a 4 day course over a 6-9 month period to assist staff to further develop skills for managing the stresses and anxieties of working life as well as techniques for developing resilience and managing healthy relationships. The course will also be supportive to the Carers that are employed with us and those that will become Carers in the future while employed with the service. The course outline is below: Day 1: Awareness & Automatic Pilot and Living in our Heads • Recognising the tendency to be on automatic pilot and getting lost in rumination • Noticing the chatter of the mind and how the chatter tends to control our reactions to service users, colleagues and workplace events/situations Day 2: Gathering the Scattered Mind & Recognising Aversion • Becoming familiar with behaviour of the Mind working away in the background to complete unfinished work tasks and striving for work based future goals • Developing the skill of 'coming back' to the task in hand by seeing more clearly what 'takes us away', distracts us • Recognising when we try to cling to jobs and avoid other jobs Day 3: Allowing and Letting Be & Thoughts are not Facts • Relating differently to experiences by bringing a sense of allowing and letting be, without judging or trying to make it different • Bringing an attitude of acceptance which is a major part of taking care of oneself • Realising that our thoughts are just thoughts and that the same pattern of thought recur again and again Learning to stand back from our thoughts and see them as passing states of mind, negative thinking as distorted products of those mind states and reducing stress. Day 4: How can I best take care of myself and Maintaining and Extending New Learning • Using skilful action to take care of ourselves in the face of stress and anxiety. • Learning how to respond more promptly and effectively to stress/anxiety (both in the workplace and home) by learning to recognise our personal pattern of warning signs • Maintaining a balance in work and life • Preparing for the future "what do I do when I notice early warning signs?"
Robertson Trust - Carers Health and Wellbeing Project
£30,000	21/03/2017	Carers Health and Wellbeing Project

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How is it governed?

Trustees

Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

Legal constitution

Charity registered in Scotland on 22/09/1995, number: SC024103
Registered at Companies House

Filing Record

5 returns made; all on time

Main office

2-6 Nith Street, Dumfries, DG1 2PW

Objectives

(i) to improve the quality of life of people of all ages including children who unpaid are caring or who have cared for elderly, sick, disabled, or otherwise dependent persons, adults and children, in all locations who are in necessitous circumstances and of dependents of carers being dependents who are themselves in necessitous circumstances and, for that purpose, to promote the material welfare of such carers as aforesaid. (ii) to relieve and alleviate and to advance, promote, encourage and assist in the relief or alleviation of all kinds of mental and physical infirmity, sickness, disablement or handicap, including mental illness attributable to caring among carers and those persons for whom they are caring. (iii) to advance education and promote awareness concerning caring among carers, statutory and voluntary agencies and the public.

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