Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 5

Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
Future income +5
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Overall weighted support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 11

BIRSE COMMUNITY TRUST

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker and there are significant future grants due to be received
Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period, despite a decline more recently
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending

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	£82,133	£38,914	£70,053	£13,895	£22,802	£54,806
Total spending	£36,144	£39,756	£66,053	£32,277	£34,855	£59,596
Surplus/deficit	£45,989	-£842	£4,000	-£18,382	-£12,053	-£4,790

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Established: 26 years

www.birsecommunitytrust.org.uk

Listed activities

It carries out activities or services itself

GiG Classification

Community services

Purposes

The prevention or relief of poverty
The advancement of education
The advancement of citizenship or community development

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 significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
The Pilgrim Trust - Grant to Birse Community Trust
£20,800	08/12/2023	The Shoe Box at the Souter's shop in Ballogie: The project will place a shed type temporary shelter over the former shoe shop/workshop and carry out recording activities of the building contents. The ....more The Shoe Box at the Souter's shop in Ballogie: The project will place a shed type temporary shelter over the former shoe shop/workshop and carry out recording activities of the building contents. The shelter will provide immediate protection to the building to stave off deterioration whilst funding applications are made for the repair and conservation works scheduled to take place in 2024.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Birse Community Trust
£17,900	17/12/2018	‘Aye, it wis aabody’: exploring Scotland’s Caribbean slave trade history
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Birse Community Trust
£10,000	22/03/2016	to contribute towards repairs to Finzean Wood Mills (grant is not to be used for the heightening of the riverbank and intake of sluice gate).

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (6)

Current Directors appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 44-71

BELL, Alison Mary Isabel
Appointed: 2018
Occupation: Freelance Music Teacher & Writer

BRACEGIRDLE, Elizabeth Jane
Appointed: 2020
Occupation: Registered Nurse Marie Curie

DAVIDSON, Nancy Ellen
Appointed: 2018
Occupation: Retired Primary School Head Teacher

DINNIE, Robert Fraser
Appointed: 2022
Occupation: Regional Director/Farmer

LINDSEY, Simon Charles
Appointed: 2020
Occupation: Contract Manager Apcoa

RIDER, Toby Christian Raymon
Appointed: 2018
Occupation: Engineer, Oil Company

Legal constitution

Charity registered in Scotland on 26/08/1998, number: SC028220
Registered at Companies House on 26/08/1998, number: SC188799

Filing Record

5 returns made; all on time

Main office

The Old School, AB31 6NY

Objectives

(i) to relieve poverty. (ii) to advance education. (iii) to protect, conserve, regenerate and promote, for the benefit of the public, the restoration of the native woodlands, including their flora and fauna, and other assets in the Parish of Birse, Aberdeenshire, as an important part of Scotland's natural environment. and (iv) to promote the benefit of the inhabitants of the said Parish and its environs and members of the public generally, without distinction of political, religious or other opinions by associating with the local authorities, voluntary organisations and said inhabitants in a common effort to provide, or assist in the provision of, facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and leisure-time occupation with the object of improving the conditions of life for the said inhabitants by

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