Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Mainly male board: -1
  • Grant maker support: +2
Overall GiG Score: -1 ?

CUMBRAE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMPANY 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker
  • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly male

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
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 £121,355 £72,563 £94,838 £207,367 £102,690 £153,323
Total spending £194,001 £211,289 £203,989 £221,912 £201,203 £232,995
Surplus/deficit -£72,646 -£138,726 -£109,151 -£14,545 -£98,513 -£79,672
Established: 22 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • Community services
Purposes
  • The prevention or relief of poverty
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of health','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
  • North Ayrshire
  • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation
Who it helps
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Who supports 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
Scottish Government - Cumbrae Community Development Company Limited
£18,802 08/06/2020
Detailed description not provided.
Scottish Government - Cumbrae Community Development Company
£17,000 20/05/2020
Detailed description not provided.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (6)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split
Based on 5/6 persons

Age Range of Directors: 51-76
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 16/07/2002, number: SC033383
  • Registered at Companies House on 16/07/2002, number: SC234200
Filing Record
5 returns made; AR20: 51 days late,
Main office

, KA28 0AZ

Objectives

The company's objects are: To relieve poverty among the residents of the Island of Cumbrae ('the Operating Area'). To provide or assist in the provision within the Operating Area of facilities for recreation and other leisure time occupation available to the public at large with a view to improving their conditions of life. To promote for the public benefit the preservation of (whether wholly or in part) of buildings and other structures of historic and/or architectural significance located within the Operating Area. To advance education among the residents of the Operating Area, particularly among young people and the unemployed. To relieve employmen t within the Operating Area for the public benefit in such ways as may be thought fit, including assistance to find employment. To provide or assist in the provision of housing for people in necessitous circumstances within the Operating Area. 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. To preserve, restore and improve the environment within the Operating Area through (i) protection and/or preservation of the natural environment and (ii) the provision, maintenance and/or 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 To relieve ill health and promote good health, particularly among residents of the Operating Area. To promote, establish, operate, and/or support other schemes of a ch

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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