Finance Score: -6
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 5
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Grant maker support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 4 ?

DUNBLANE YOUTH AND SPORTS CENTRE TRUST 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly female

Financial issues to consider:

  • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Established: 21 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/12/17 31/12/18 31/12/19 31/12/20 31/12/21 31/12/22
Total income £288,929 £284,931 £245,904 £170,730 £93,830 £144,547
Total spending £382,931 £356,085 £325,964 £191,583 £189,227 £242,738
Surplus/deficit -£94,002 -£71,154 -£80,060 -£20,853 -£95,397 -£98,191
Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Purposes
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of health
  • The advancement of citizenship or community development','the advancement of public participation in sport','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
  • Stirling
Who it helps
  • Children or young people
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Garfield Weston Foundation£50,000
National Lottery Community Fund£16,102
Scottish Government£12,609
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Digital Inclusion and Growing with IT Club
£10,000 03/11/2022
The group will use the funding to establish an IT club for local school aged children.
National Lottery Community Fund - Youth Art Mural Project
£6,102 02/07/2021
The group will use the funding to engage young people and other community groups in designing and painting a mural on the walls of the center.
Scottish Government - Dunblane Youth and Sports Centre Trust
£5,090 25/01/2021
Detailed description not provided.
Scottish Government - Dunblane Youth and Sports Centre Trust
£5,519 19/01/2021
Detailed description not provided.
Scottish Government - The Dunblane Youth and Sport Centre Trust
£2,000 16/06/2020
Detailed description not provided.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£50,000 14/02/2020
Unrestricted Grant
Robertson Trust - Running costs of the Youth Work Service
£45,000 04/12/2018
Running costs of the Youth Work Service
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 25/09/2018
Core costs for the Dunblane Centre
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (7)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Directors: 37-69
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 18/12/2002, number: SC027397
  • Registered at Companies House on 18/12/2002, number: SC241368
Filing Record
5 returns made; AR19: 49 days late,
Main office

Dunblane Centre, Stirling Road, Dunblane, FK15 9EY

Objectives

The objects for which the Company is established are to advance education and to provide facilities, in the interest of social welfare, for recreation and other leisuretime occupation so that the conditions of life of young people living in Dunblane and the surrounding district may be improved. to establish a youth centre for young people to provide such facilities and as a base for activities such as talk and listening, counselling support, information, organised activities, health education and information and any other support/service which fulfils the aim of youth development in the community. to promote the benefit of the inhabitants of Dunblane and its environs without distinction of sex, sexuality, political, religious or other opinions in a common effort to advance education and to provide facilities, or to assist in the provision of facilities, in the interest of social welfare for recreation and other leisure-time occupation so that the conditions of life of such inhabitants may be improved. and in furtherance of such benefit to establish a sports and recreational facility and building and to maintain and manage such facility and building

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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