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Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 7
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 19 ?

BORDERS FOREST TRUST

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • 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:

  • There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Data adjusted to reflect year end change
Period ending 31/12/17 31/12/18 31/12/19 31/12/20 31/12/21 30/06/23
Charitable activities £283,860 £326,765 £489,701 £791,343
Donations & Legacies £196,019 £119,979 £239,144 £3,056,640
Other Income £13,707
Investment Income £7,805 £7,861 £6,737 £21,204
Total income £318,911 £497,507 £467,054 £759,302 £669,064 £3,870,833
Charitable activities spending £417,748 £368,108 £657,825 £913,796
Fundraising costs 3% 2% 2% 3% 0%
Other spending
Total spending £409,762 £430,570 £377,823 £669,439 £569,892 £923,330
Surplus/deficit -£90,851 £66,937 £89,231 £89,863 £99,172 £2,947,503
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Established: 29 years

www.bordersforesttrust.org

Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • Land or water management
Purposes
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
  • The advancement of environmental protection or improvement
Where it operates
  • More than one local authority area in Scotland, main operating location: Scottish Borders
Who it helps
  • Children or young people
  • People with disabilities or health problems
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community','Other charities or voluntary bodies

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Foundation Scotland - Minibus Acquisition
£10,000 03/08/2023
11
To contribute towards the purchase of a new wheelchair accessible minibus to transport children, young people and others to Borders Forest Trust events and workshops across the Ettrick Valleys and wider Scottish Borders.
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Borders Forest Trust
£15,000 06/02/2023
Towards unrestricted core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to The Borders Forest Trust
£150,000 21/09/2022
Towards core costs for practical large-scale ecological restoration of damaged landscapes in Southern Scotland through new native woodland establishment
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Borders Forest Trust
£25,000 05/05/2020
6
towards unrestricted core costs as a COVID-19 Fast Response grant
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (3 Years) award
£30,000 05/03/2019
36
Reviving the Wild Heart of Southern Scotland
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Borders Forest Trust
£150,000 25/07/2018
36
Towards the salary and other costs of the chief executive and the programmes manager to restore and create biodiverse habitats in southern Scotland and to strengthen the organisation.
National Lottery Community Fund - Corehead Community Cabin
£10,000 25/01/2017
12
This organisation restores native woodlands in Southern Scotland by combining farming and habitat restoration. They also do workshops in outdoor learning and environmental education. The funding will be used to build a new environmentally low impact ....more
Robertson Trust - continuation funding for the All Things Green project
£24,000 31/08/2016
continuation funding for the All Things Green project
Robertson Trust - The All Things Green Programme
£12,000 30/04/2015
The All Things Green Programme
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Borders Forest Trust
£10,000 12/06/2013
Forest Futures
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (11)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split
Based on 10/11 persons

Age Range of Directors: 31-76
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 30/01/1996, number: SC024358
  • Registered at Companies House on 12/01/1996, number: SC162581
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

Monteviot Nurseries, Ancrum, Jedburgh, TD8 6TU

Objectives

The objects for which the Company is established are to conserve, regenerate and promote the restoration of native woodlands in the geographical region of the Borders as an important part of Scotland's natural environment for the benefit of the public.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving

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