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Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 4
  • Volatile income: -3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly male board: -1
  • Overall weighted support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 6 ?

MID DEESIDE COMMUNITY TRUST

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker
  • 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 male

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile recently
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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 31/12/23
Total income £187,347 £141,935 £159,447 £125,701 £342,021 £280,018 £179,257
Total spending £165,131 £195,703 £172,232 £139,128 £265,085 £259,271 £188,625
Surplus/deficit £22,216 -£53,768 -£12,785 -£13,427 £76,936 £20,747 -£9,368
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Established: 27 years

www.mid-deeside.org.uk

Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • Museums, parks, historical sites
Purposes
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of citizenship or community development
  • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science','the advancement of environmental protection or improvement
Where it operates
  • Aberdeenshire
Who it helps
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Scottish Government£11,001
Co-Operative Group£9,612
Foundation Scotland£5,000
CAF£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Mid Deeside Community Trust - Aboyne Food Bank
£4,358 22/10/2022
Our goal is to ensure that nobody suffers from food poverty in our area.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Mid Deeside Community Trust
£5,253 23/10/2021
We'd like to buy a wheelchair accessible bus. This will enable us to continue transporting both elderly and disabled people, and to connect isolated people within our rural community.
Scottish Government - Mid Deeside Community Trust
£11,001 15/03/2021
Detailed description not provided.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Mid Deeside Community Trust
£5,000 08/03/2021
3
To contribute towards the cost of the project administrator and to purchase ozonated canisters which provide a completely ?green? method of cleaning the buses.
CAF - Grant to Mid Deeside Community Trust
£5,000 29/06/2020
3
Grant to Mid Deeside Community Trust to support the organisation through COVID19
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Mid Deeside Limited
£4,023 04/08/2017
By improving the survival prospects of members of the public suffering out of hospital cardiac arrest .
National Lottery Community Fund - Deeside Community Transport
£10,000 30/09/2011
12
The company, based in Aberdeenshire, will replace an 11 years old community minibus with a new 17 seater wheelchair adaptable one. The grant will be used to help buy a new minibus.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (10)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 41-76
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 16/12/1997, number: SC027750
    • Notes: Previous name from 16/12/1997 to 19/02/2018 Mid Deeside Limited
  • Registered at Companies House on 16/12/1996, number: SC170657
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

c/o The Aboyne & Community Shed, Cemetery Road, Aboyne, Aberdeenshire, AB34 5DZ

Objectives

This Clause shall be interpreted as if it incorporated an over-riding qualification limiting the powers of the company such that any activity which would otherwise be permitted by the terms of the clause may be carried on only if that activity furthers a purpose which is regarded as charitable for the purpose of Section 505 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 or any statutory amendment or re-enactment for the time being in force. Subject to that over-riding qualification, the objects of the Company are 'to further the education of the public in the geography, history, natural history and architecture of Aboyne and District (including the areas shown on the Location Plan being Figure 1 on the Aboyne Tourism and Economic Development Study which areas are indicative only and not exclusive) which area shall hereinafter be referred to as 'area of Benefit' and to secure the preservation, protection, development and improvement of features of historic or public interest in the area of benefit

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving

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