Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 9
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 20 ?

HEALTHY VALLEYS 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition
Established: 20 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 £5,050 £5,080 £9,575 £288 £15,959
Donations & Legacies £628,015 £628,389 £824,707 £979,420 £991,228
Other Income
Investment Income £936 £980 £519 £1,074 £2,267
Total income £634,001 £634,449 £834,801 £980,782 £1,043,002 £1,009,454
Charitable activities spending £538,590 £610,834 £797,449 £788,947 £1,050,003
Fundraising costs
Other spending
Total spending £538,590 £610,834 £797,449 £788,947 £889,787 £1,050,003
Surplus/deficit £95,411 £23,615 £37,352 £191,835 £153,215 -£40,549
Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Purposes
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of health
Where it operates
  • Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: South Lanarkshire
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'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£266,421
Scottish Government£122,397
BBC Children in Need£99,533
Foundation Scotland£12,090
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - UKPCOL - Together We Can
£47,291 22/02/2023
The group will use the funding to work with partners and local community groups to deliver an outreach programme providing a range of cost-of-living support. This will include workshops courses and ....more
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Healthy Valleys
£7,530 14/12/2021
To contribute to the salary of a Community Health Navigator
National Lottery Community Fund - Resilient Families
£199,383 09/12/2021
This group will use the funding to continue delivery of their Resilient Families project which works with disadvantaged and isolated families with children under 5 years who are experiencing complex ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Healthy Valleys Active Travel Project
£9,897 07/12/2021
The organisation will use the funds to encourage more people to cycle by helping them with training on how to ride and maintain bicycles as well as by collecting retrofitting and distributing free ....more
Scottish Government - Healthy Valleys
£39,766 20/10/2021
Detailed description not provided.
National Lottery Community Fund - Active Travel Project
£9,850 18/01/2021
14
This project will help support and train volunteers to deliver active transport activities across rural Clydesdale particularly walking and cycling activities.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Healthy Valleys
£99,533 20/12/2020
Support for children and young people (5-18) affected by poverty, rural deprivation and chaotic family circumstances. Fun and educational programmes will improve emotional resilience and confidence, ....more
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Healthy Valleys
£4,560 10/12/2020
To be able to purchase food and basic household cleaning items to enable them to continue to run 2 Community Larders for 3 months in 2 very deprived areas in Lanark, distributing food and information ....more
Scottish Government - Healthy Valleys
£36,347 16/06/2020
Detailed description not provided.
Scottish Government - Healthy Valleys
£46,284 21/04/2020
Detailed description not provided.
Robertson Trust - Clydesdale Community Connectors project
£45,000 04/12/2018
Clydesdale Community Connectors project
National Lottery Community Fund - Resilient Families
£362,456 05/10/2018
36
This group will use the funding to deliver the Resilient Families project which will work with disadvantaged and isolated families with children under five who are experiencing complex and ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Grassroots Project (Part 2)
£455,268 22/05/2015
36
This project will support families with children under the age of five, with the aim of reducing the health related inequalities for up to 312 individuals across the lifetime of the grant. The ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Grassroots
£422,547 09/11/2011
36
This project seeks to support vulnerable and hard to reach families in rural South Lanarkshire. Expectant mothers, new mums and families of children aged 0 - 5 will be supported to look after their ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - There is no project name available for this record
£10,000 01/07/2010
12
This group will undertake research to ascertain the possibility of creating a Healthy Eating Catering and Training resource centre in South Lanarkshire. The grant will be used to pay for a business ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (6)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 41-70
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 21/03/2004, number: SC034253
  • Registered at Companies House on 21/03/2003, number: SC246145
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

Lockhart Community Hub, c/o Lockhart Hospital, Whitelees Road, Lanark, ML11 7RX

Objectives

a. To preserve and protect the mental and physical health of individuals resident in Scotland, ('the Operating Area') and to assist in the relief of ill health and the provision of health education for such individuals. b. To advance education, and in particular health education, among the residents of the Operating Area so as to develop their mental, social and spiritual capacities so that their conditions of life may be improved. c. 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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