Finance Score: -4

Governance Score: -1

Support Score: 1

Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -2 times
Multiple Deficits: -2
No PartB

Only 4 Trustees: -1
Good trustee age range: +3
All male board: -3

Grant maker support: +1

Overall GiG Score: -4

RECAP (N LANARKSHIRE)

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

There are only 4 trustees
The Board is completely male

Financial issues to consider:

Accounts have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years
On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Established: 20 years

www.recapnl.org.uk

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	£144,658	£121,718	£99,586	£93,580	£115,794	£118,163
Total spending	£156,554	£121,955	£121,714	£104,375	£107,814	£139,581
Surplus/deficit	-£11,896	-£237	-£22,128	-£10,795	£7,980	-£21,418

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Listed activities

It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals

Purposes

The prevention or relief of poverty
The advancement of education
The advancement of environmental protection or improvement

Where it operates

Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: North Lanarkshire

Who it helps

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.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations - Recap home furniture packs
£4,352	29/10/2018	The funding will expand Recap's capacity by making a contributing to a driver's wage for nine months .This will mean that Recap can increase the delivery and installation of its home starter packs to ....more The funding will expand Recap's capacity by making a contributing to a driver's wage for nine months .This will mean that Recap can increase the delivery and installation of its home starter packs to tenants who are on benefits. Recap will supply these new Housing association tenants with an essential furniture pack which when they are offered new house. The starter packs will consist of a mixture new and second hand furniture. Essentially it will give the new tenant furniture to cook, sleep and sit on. The Furniture packs will include Bed, Settee, Fridge Freezer or Washing Machine or Cooker, Bedding, Pots & pans, Cutlery and Kettle. The project will help new tenants many who are homeless, on benefits and are affected by welfare reform and living in poverty. Recap has established a partnership with Sanctuary a local Housing Association to help new tenants. Currently Recap does supply a limited number of tenants with furniture. The funding would enable Recap to expand and develop the service and help an increased number of tenants. The project will help the tenants to settle into their new home in the longer term sustain their tenancy. There has been an increase in demand for the service due to welfare reform which means it is more it more difficult for people to access grants when moving into a new home. The project will help to allieviate the effects of welfare reform, poverty, social inequality and prevent people reaching a crisis situation. Over the period Recap supplied the tenants with essential household items such as bed, sofa's electrical goods, bedding pot, cutlery and soft furnishings. Recap staff installed many of the cookers and washing machines so they were ready to use.
Robertson Trust - the Starter Packs Project
£18,000	30/04/2015	the Starter Packs Project

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How is it governed?

Directors (4)

Current Directors appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 31-78

BROWN, Craig Robert
Appointed: 2023
Occupation: Fireman

CAMERON, Donald
Appointed: 2013
Occupation: Retired

JOHNSTON, John Henry
Appointed: 2013
Occupation: Retailer

MCCARRY, Charles
Appointed: 2004
Occupation: Furniture Re-Use

Legal constitution

Charity registered in Scotland on 23/03/2004, number: SC034452
Registered at Companies House on 23/03/2004, number: SC265378

Filing Record

5 returns made; AR20: 63 days late, AR19: 66 days late,

Main office

51 Napier Road, Wardpark , Cumbernauld, G68 0EF

Objectives

To relieve poverty of the inhabitants in the area of benefit in particular those who have need by virtue oftheir youth, age, infirmity, disability, handicap, poverty, homelessness or unemployment, by collecting, refurbishing and storing donated furniture and household goods and distributing them to those in need. ii) To advance environmental protection or improvement through: The refurbishment, re-use & recycling of furniture items with the aim being to reduce the volume of furniture items being sent to landfill sites for disposal. The promotion of education in the fields of the environment, resource recovery, re-use, waste management and recycling, with a view to encouraging a more sustainable use of scarce environmental resources. To advance education and promote training, with particular reference to work skills which will improve the participants' chances of obtaining further paid employment.

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