Finance Score: -2

Governance Score: -3

Support Score: 6

Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -2 times
No PartB

Only 4 Trustees: -1
Narrow trustee age band: -2

Grant maker support: +6

Overall GiG Score: 1

GROUP FOR RECYCLING IN ARGYLL AND BUTE TRUST LIMITED

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are only 4 trustees
The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

Accounts have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years

Established: 25 years

www.grab.org.uk

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	£176,722	£155,925	£168,784	£160,010	£285,855	£219,199
Total spending	£159,095	£157,010	£136,395	£123,328	£168,380	£168,318
Surplus/deficit	£17,627	-£1,085	£32,389	£36,682	£117,475	£50,881

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Listed activities

It carries out activities or services itself

Purposes

The advancement of education
The advancement of environmental protection or improvement

Where it operates

Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: Argyll And Bute

Who it helps

Children or young people
No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
Other charities or voluntary bodies

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

National Lottery Community Fund	£67,499
Garfield Weston Foundation	£25,000
CAF	£7,500

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Waste No More! - A Jubilee Legacy for Argyll and Bute
£49,999	03/03/2022	The funding will be used to bring young people and the older generation together to reduce waste in the local area. They will share skills with each other that benefit the environment – older ....more The funding will be used to bring young people and the older generation together to reduce waste in the local area. They will share skills with each other that benefit the environment – older people will show young people how to bake upcycle clothes and furniture whereas young people will bring their knowledge of veganism to the table as well as the idea of getting friends together to share and swap unwanted clothes. Volunteers will run pop-events covering these themes to get the wider community involved. This will not only reduce pollution and waste going to landfill but build friendships between generations that will last long after the Platinum Jubilee
National Lottery Community Fund - Beach and Marine Environment Education Programme
£10,000	18/01/2022	This group will deliver environmental education and support grassroots community action with a focus on protecting costal/marine environments. The group work with schools community groups and ....more This group will deliver environmental education and support grassroots community action with a focus on protecting costal/marine environments. The group work with schools community groups and businesses to raise awareness and combat beach/marine pollution.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000	09/04/2021	The GRAB Trust
CAF - Grant to The Group for Recycling in Argyll and Bute Trust
£7,500	29/05/2020 3	Grant to The Group for Recycling in Argyll and Bute Trust to support the organisation through COVID19
National Lottery Community Fund - Beach and Marine Environment Education Project
£7,500	20/03/2020 9	This group will use the funding to support their Beaches and Marine Education project which provides opportunities for schools and community groups to engage in environmental activities such as beach ....more This group will use the funding to support their Beaches and Marine Education project which provides opportunities for schools and community groups to engage in environmental activities such as beach cleans.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000	04/09/2019	The GRAB Trust
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£10,000	02/05/2018	Main Grants award
National Lottery Community Fund - Beaches and Marine Litter project
£9,750	25/01/2017 12	This group will use the funding to deliver beaches and marine litter education events to schools (Primary and Secondary) and to the local community.
Robertson Trust - The Salary Costs of the Project Worker for the Beaches and Marine Litter Project
£19,000	30/04/2015	The Salary Costs of the Project Worker for the Beaches and Marine Litter Project

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How is it governed?

Directors (4)

Current Directors appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 64-78

LYNCH, James Thomas
Appointed: 2020
Occupation: Councillor

LYON, David
Appointed: 2012
Occupation: Service Manager

SINCLAIR, Malcolm
Appointed: 2016
Occupation: Retired

TURNER, Mary Christine
Appointed: 2009
Occupation: Farmer

Legal constitution

Charity registered in Scotland on 15/06/1999, number: SC029154
Registered at Companies House on 15/06/1999, number: SC197229

Filing Record

5 returns made; AR20: 21 days late, AR19: 17 days late,

Main office

C/O Argyll And Bute Council, Kilmory, Lochgilphead, Argyll, PA31 8RT

Objectives

To seek the preservation and maintenance of the natural quality of the environment of the Local Authority area of Argyll and Bute (as determined by the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland) by means of encouraging through education and training of others the recycling of waste materials. minimising waste, acting to reduce litter and for the benefit, education and training of the community as a whole and to specifically encourage and foster local involvement and participation in the aforementioned aims and to do every such thing as may be necessary to implememnt the aforementioned aims as anciliary to the foregoing objects or incidental and or conducive to the attainment thereof but so that all the objects of the Company shall be of an exclusively charitable nature.

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