Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 0
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • No PartB
  • Mainly male board: -1
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: -3 ?

WEST DUNBARTONSHIRE ENVIRONMENT TRUST 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly male

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income was lower than spending in the latest year
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 £200,745 £204,382 £201,791 £183,310 £201,791 £230,439
Total spending £196,093 £206,087 £204,130 £142,713 £204,130 £285,151
Surplus/deficit £4,652 -£1,705 -£2,339 £40,597 -£2,339 -£54,712
Established: 21 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • Community services
Purposes
  • 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','any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes
Where it operates
  • Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: West Dunbartonshire
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 (6)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 62-89
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 04/02/2003, number: SC034037
  • Registered at Companies House on 04/02/2003, number: SC243414
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

, G82 3PD

Objectives

To preserve, restore and improve the environment in and around the area of West Dunbartonshite ('the Operating Area') through 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 putposes of land whose use has been prevented or restricted because of previous use. (2) To protect the natural environment from further damage by (a) discouraging the unnecessary depletion of natural resources (b) promoting education in the fields of waste management and/or recycling and, in particular, collating information and carrying out research in those fields and disseminating such information and the results of such research, all with a view to encouraging the use of more sustainable waste management practices. (3) To promote training, particularly in such skills as may assist the participants in obtaining paid employment. (4) 'To relieve unemployment in such ways as may be thought fit, including assistance to find employment. To promote edueation.-pa:rticularl~-among-residents--of-the-0pera.ting--Area-:-.- - - --- --4 (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) To relieve ill healthand promotegood health, particularlyamong residents of the Operating Area. . To provide within the Operating Area 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 (whether wholly or in part) of buildings and other structures of historic and!or architectural significance located within the Operating Area.

Data Sources

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