Overall GiG Score: 8 ?
Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 7
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +7

ORMLIE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION LTD. 

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

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years 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
Total income £170,038 £102,504 £135,578 £98,675 £74,392 £82,607
Total spending £159,159 £142,746 £113,978 £73,804 £98,344 £113,568
Surplus/deficit £10,879 -£40,242 £21,600 £24,871 -£23,952 -£30,961
What it does
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Who it helps
  • Children or young people
  • Older People
  • People with disabilities or health problems','No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
Purposes
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of citizenship or community development
  • 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','the advancement of environmental protection or improvement','the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Where it operates
  • Highland

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
Foundation Scotland£45,903
Robertson Trust£18,000
DCMS£4,938
Charles Hayward Foundation£3,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Foundation Scotland - Core Funding
£5,000 11/01/2022
To contribute to the core costs of the organisation over the next year.
Foundation Scotland - Ormlie Mens group
£5,000 02/11/2021
To funding a project to assist and support creation of a group specifically for men over 18 in the community.
Foundation Scotland - Halkirk Bibs and Burps: Mother and Toddler group
£30,965 29/10/2021
To set up a new parent and toddler group ?Halkirk Bibs and Burps? which will be staffed for three years before becoming volunteer led and self sufficient.
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£4,938 30/09/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Ormlie Community Association Ltd
£4,938 30/09/2020
To enable the group to move to digital working to continue the provision of wellbeing, emotional and mental health support to the elderly and other vulnerable residents in the local community.
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Ormlie Community Association
£3,000 18/09/2020
Silver Citizens programme
Robertson Trust - Get It Digital Access
£18,000 30/05/2019
Get It Digital Access
Corra Foundation - HDA-18/380
£4,000 02/08/2018
Towards the staffing costs of the Supported Digital Access Programme.
Corra Foundation - HDA-17/335
£4,500 03/08/2017
towards staff salaries and on-costs to deliver the Supported Digital Access programme in Thurso and Wick
Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations - IT Catch-UP!!
£7,169 01/04/2017
This project will enhance computer skills for a range of participants on their older adults programmes, and for those who attend support provision for the unemployed. Specific hooks (searching ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Ormlie Community Association Ltd
£112,494 05/11/2016
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This group will use the funding to continue to carry out projects and activities they currently run directed at supporting the most vulnerable in the community. The development manager will work to ....more
Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations - Net Axs (Wick)
£9,952 05/12/2014
Net Axs (Wick) will allow us to extend our current provision in the Caithness and North Sutherland area. We will give individuals supported access to PCs two days per week from the Wick CAB office. ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Net Axs
£68,199 11/03/2014
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Net Axs
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (8)
Current Directors appointed

Age Range of Directors: 24-72
  • KELLY, Jim
    Appointed: 2012
    Occupation: Administrator
  • MACDONALD, Neil
    Appointed: 2017
    Occupation: Team Leader - The Co-Operative Group
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 02/02/1998, number: SC028393
  • Registered at Companies House on 06/08/2001, number: SC221915
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

108 Marr Terrace, Thurso, KW14 7SW

Objectives

To promote the benefit of the inhabitants of Ormlie and Caithness and its environs or North Highland (hereinafter called members of the Community) without distinction of sex or of political, religious, or other opinions by a) the advancement of education b) the provision or assisting in providing recreational facilities and /or organizing recreational activities , which will be available to members of the Community and the public at large with the object of improving the conditions of life of the members of the Community and the public at large c) managing Community assets for the benefit of the members of the Community and the public at large d) advancing community development, including urban or rural regeneration within the Community e) advancing environmental protection or improvement including preservation, sustainable development and conservation of the natural environment, the maintenance, improvement or provision of environmental amenities for the members of the Community, and the promotion of the use of renewable energy sources amongst members of the Community, and f) the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage,

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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