Overall GiG Score: 3 ?
Finance Score: -4
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 4
  • Spending declining: -1
  • Volatile income: -3
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +4

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Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be dynamic in terms of composition
  • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation

Financial issues to consider:

  • Spending is declining
  • Income has been volatile recently
Established: 22 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 £177,081 £174,151 £257,866 £289,851 £351,948 £268,525
Donations & Legacies £128,274 £165,240 £150,079 £22,531 £9,300
Other Income £10,590
Investment Income
Total income £315,945 £339,391 £407,945 £312,382 £361,248 £278,105
Charitable activities spending £355,344 £380,308 £328,085 £287,559 £286,637 £265,889
Fundraising costs
Other spending
Total spending £355,344 £380,308 £328,085 £287,559 £286,637 £265,889
Surplus/deficit -£39,399 -£40,917 £79,860 £24,823 £74,611 £12,216
What it does
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Who it helps
  • Children or young people
  • Older People
  • Other defined groups','Other charities or voluntary bodies
Purposes
  • The prevention or relief of poverty
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of citizenship or community development','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
  • More than one local authority area in Scotland, main operating location: West Dunbartonshire
  • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation

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 - Community Energy Advice West Dunbartonshire UKPCOL
£50,040 19/01/2023
This group will use the funding to recruit a new full-time Energy Advisor to support those in fuel crisis and build resilience against fuel poverty through a holistic programme of advice advocacy and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Healthy Pathways
£124,885 19/04/2021
This group will use the funding to continue delivering a programme of activities that will bring together socially isolated and vulnerable people who experience social stigma and lack of self-worth ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Volunteer in Progress Programme (ViPP)
£144,554 23/01/2018
35
The group will be able to continue to run their ‘Volunteer in Progress Programme’ (ViP) which provides people with training and volunteering opportunities. The project particularly targets people ....more
Robertson Trust - The Streetlinks "Volunteers in Progress Programme" (ViPP) Co-ordinator
£30,000 31/10/2015
The Streetlinks "Volunteers in Progress Programme" (ViPP) Co-ordinator

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (5)
Current Directors appointed

Age Range of Directors: 59-83
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 28/03/2002, number: SC032934
  • Registered at Companies House on 28/03/2002, number: SC229753
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

63 Kilbowie Road, Clydebank, G81 1BL

Objectives

(1) To relieve poverty among the residents of the Communities Scotland region referred to as North and South Clyde (covering the six local authorities of Argyll & Bute, West Dunbartonshire, East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire and Inverclyde) and such other areas as the directors may consider appropriate from time to time ('the Operating Area'). (2) To relieve unemployment for the pubic benefit in such ways as may be thought fit, including assistance to find employment. (3) To advance education among the residents of the Operating area. (4) To preserve, restore and improve the environment through the provision, maintenance andlor improvement of public open space and other public amenities, and other environmental and townscape regeneration projects, and in doing so, to seek wherever appropriate (but subject to appropriate safeguards to ensure that the public benefit so arising clearly outweighs any private benefit thereby conferred on private landowners) to carry out works of reclamation, remediation, restoration and other operations to facilitate the use for those purposes of land whose use has been prevented or restricted because of previous use. (5) To relieve the needs of people suffering from mental and/or physical disability, illness or impairment. (6) To provide in the interests of social welfare facilities within the Operating Area for recreation and other leisure time occupation available to the public at large with a view to improving their conditions of life. (7). To promote, establish, operate and/or support other schemes and projects 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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