Finance Score: -6
Governance Score: -2
Support Score: 0
  • Spending declining: -1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Grant maker support: +0
Overall GiG Score: -8 ?

ARDENTINNY COMMUNITY TRUST LIMITED 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from a grant maker

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • Spending is declining
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years 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 £14,127 £10,056 £5,423 £2,946 £5,872 £4,588
Total spending £16,041 £6,923 £9,659 £9,659 £6,587 £6,174
Surplus/deficit -£1,914 £3,133 -£4,236 -£6,713 -£715 -£1,586
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 prevention or relief of poverty
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of health','the advancement of citizenship or community development','the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science','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','the advancement of animal welfare
Where it operates
  • Argyll And Bute
Who it helps
  • Children or young people
  • Older People
  • People with disabilities or health problems','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
Co-Operative Group - Grant to ARDENTINNY COMMUNITY TRUST LTD
£5,080 19/11/2018
We want to buy a (disabled) eco compost toilet which is needed for persons of all ages and abilities who visit and work in the garden.
Robertson Trust - The Volunteer Co-ordinator/Gardener for the Glenfinart Walled Garden
£19,000 31/01/2015
The Volunteer Co-ordinator/Gardener for the Glenfinart Walled Garden
National Lottery Community Fund - Purchase and Restoration of Glenfinart Walled Garden
£10,000 03/08/2011
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The trust will use the grant to purchase Glenfinart walled Garden from the forestry commission. They will then re-launch the run down premesis as a community garden featuring a relaxing leisure park ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (4)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 67-73
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 06/03/2003, number: SC034235
  • Registered at Companies House on 06/03/2003, number: SC245169
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

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Objectives

a) to provide, in the interests of social welfare, facilities for recreation and other leisure time activity available to the public at large within the village of Ardentinny and the surrounding landward area - as defined by the Ardentinny Community Council boundaries (the Operating Area) -with a view to improving their conditions of life. b) to preserve, restore and improve the environment in the operating Area through the provision , maintenance and lor 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. c) To promote for 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. d) to provide or assist in the provision of housing for people in necessitous circumstances within the Operating Area. e) to advance education and to promote training programmes and' opportunities for the benefit of the residents of the Operating Area particularly among young -people and the unemployed. f) to relieve poverty among the residents of the Operating Area. g) to promote, establish and operate other schemes 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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