Overall GiG Score: 10 ?
Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 3
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +3

MACTAGGART YOUTH AND COMMUNITIES OUTREACH SERVICE 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from a grant maker
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 3 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 26 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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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 £3,898
Donations & Legacies £251,868
Other Income
Investment Income
Total income £97,151 £53,253 £47,533 £62,395 £118,228 £262,043
Charitable activities spending £119,089
Fundraising costs 0%
Other spending
Total spending £45,387 £59,570 £55,555 £88,514 £90,522 £119,577
Surplus/deficit £51,764 -£6,317 -£8,022 -£26,119 £27,706 £142,466
What it does
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Who it helps
  • Children or young people
  • Older People
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
Purposes
  • The advancement of citizenship or community development
Where it operates
  • Argyll And Bute

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
National Lottery Community Fund - Furnishing our way to the Future
£6,150 16/04/2020
6
This group will use the funding to improve their well used community space by hosting a number of volunteer led inter-generational activities on Islay.
Robertson Trust - The Youth Workers for The Community Hub
£24,000 27/08/2018
The Youth Workers for The Community Hub
Co-Operative Group - Grant to The Mactaggart Comunity Cybercafe
£5,683 04/08/2017
We wish to purchase iPads for our cybercafé, enabling our community to access and become confident in using the latest technology.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (3)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 32-73
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 02/10/1998, number: SC028306
  • Notes: Previous legal name Mactaggart Community Cyber Café from 02 October 1998 to 23 August 2023.
  • Registered at Companies House on 02/10/1998, number: SC189928
Filing Record
4 returns made; AR20: 73 days late,
Main office

30 Mansefield Place, Port Ellen, Isle of Islay, Argyll, PA42 7BJ

Objectives

(1) To advance education in the field of information technology for the benefit of the residents of Islay ('the Operating Area'), particularly among young people and the unemployed (2) To promote and/or provide training in skills of all kinds, particularly such skills as Will assist residents of the Operating Area in obtaining paid employment (3) To relieve poverty among the residents of the Operating Area (4) To provide in the interests of social welfare, facilities for recreation and other leisure time occupation available to the public at large and, in particular, the residents of the Operating Area with a view to improving thier conditions of life (5) To promote, establish and/or operate other schemes of a charitable nature for the benefit of the community within the Operating Area

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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