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Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 8
Support Score: 0
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • 12+ Trustees: -1
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: 8 ?

BIRSAY COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are 19 trustees whereas the Charities Commission recommends a maximum of 12

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
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Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 30/09/17 30/09/18 30/09/19 30/09/20 30/09/21 30/09/22 30/09/23
Total income £71,769 £52,031 £55,354 £45,374 £5,829 £32,473 £76,226
Total spending £43,966 £36,195 £40,675 £50,735 £38,774 £29,310 £96,072
Surplus/deficit £27,803 £15,836 £14,679 -£5,361 -£32,945 £3,163 -£19,846
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Established: 26 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • Community sports activities
Purposes
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of health
  • 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
  • Orkney Islands
Who it helps
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Who supports them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Directors (19)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 31-82
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 16/12/1998, number: SC028453
  • Registered at Companies House on 22/07/2010, number: SC382404
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

Springrose, Birsay, Orkney, KW17 2LR

Objectives

a) to provide, in the interests of social welfare, facilities within the parish of Birsay, Orkney, for recreation and other leisure time activities available to the public at large. b) to advance education and promote the wellbeing and physical health of the residents of Birsay.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator

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