Overall GiG Score: -3 ?
Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 2
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • Grant maker support: +2

    GATEHOUSE DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE 

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker

    Financial issues to consider:

    • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
    Established: 20 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    Financial Data
    Income & Spending ?
    Period ending 31/12/17 31/12/18 31/12/19 31/12/20 31/12/21 31/12/22
    Total income £43,330 £54,389 £39,227 £109,807 £26,453 £24,999
    Total spending £23,231 £59,715 £26,244 £25,210 £41,997 £29,899
    Surplus/deficit £20,099 -£5,326 £12,983 £84,597 -£15,544 -£4,900
    What it does
    • It carries out activities or services itself
    Who it helps
    • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
    Purposes
    • The advancement of citizenship or community development
    Where it operates
    • Dumfries And Galloway

    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
    National Lottery Community Fund - Learning through play in the woodlands
    £7,790 29/08/2018
    12
    This group will use the funding to provide a range of fun outdoor activities after school and during the holidays for primary school aged children in Cally Woods, Gatehouse of Fleet.
    Robertson Trust - The Riverbank Park Project
    £8,500 27/08/2018
    The Riverbank Park Project
    National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Gatehouse Development Initiative
    £15,000 24/04/2017
    Rutherford Monument
    National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Gatehouse Development Initiative
    £57,600 28/04/2014
    Cally Temple, conservation and historic environment awareness raising project

    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in Scotland on 09/09/2004, number: SC036088
    • Notes: This SCIO was incorporated on 10 December 2019 as a result of the conversion of a charitable company (Company number: SC273136, company name: Gatehouse Development Initiative).
    Filing Record
    5 returns made; AR20: 43 days late,
    Main office

    56 High Street, Gatehouse of Fleet, Kirkcudbrightshire, DG7 2HP

    Objectives

    The organisation’s purposes are: 4.1 The promotion for the benefit and welfare of the public of Gatehouse of Fleet, whether living in the burgh or within the parishes of Anwoth and Girthon, without distinction of age, sex, sexuality, religious, political or other opinions, by the following means :- 4.2 To advance citizenship, community development and regeneration by using money from any source including grants (e.g. from any government, commercial or charitable source according to criteria and need as defined from time to time for projects (Cultural, Economic, Employment, Educational, Environmental, Recreational, Social Well-being) that will benefit and or enhance the community.

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator
    360 Giving
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