Finance Score: -6
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 6
  • Accounts filed more than 5 days late: -2 times
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • All female board: -3
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 3 ?

GOREBRIDGE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is completely female

Financial issues to consider:

  • Accounts have been filed late on 2 occasions over the last 5 years
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Established: 19 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
Total income £523,070 £583,360 £288,391 £308,831 £314,661 £196,865
Total spending £186,566 £300,754 £354,739 £284,475 £333,462 £366,764
Surplus/deficit £336,504 £282,606 -£66,348 £24,356 -£18,801 -£169,899
Listed activities
  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Purposes
  • The prevention or relief of poverty
  • The advancement of education
  • 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 relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Where it operates
  • Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: Midlothian
Who it helps
  • Children or young people
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
  • Other charities or voluntary bodies

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
Scottish Government£90,300
National Lottery Community Fund£10,000
Robertson Trust£10,000
Foundation Scotland£5,000
CAF£4,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Gorebridge Community Development Trust
£1,677 21/10/2023
We'd like to deliver a fully accessible community fridge open to all of the residents of Gorebridge.
National Lottery Community Fund - Winter Wellbeing
£10,000 10/11/2021
This group will use the funding for a Festival of Wellbeing.
Scottish Government - Gorebridge Community Development Trust
£14,000 25/02/2021
Detailed description not provided.
CAF - Grant to Gorebridge Community Development Trust
£4,500 29/06/2020
3
Grant to Gorebridge Community Development Trust to support the organisation through COVID19
Scottish Government - Gorebridge Community Development Trust
£8,000 15/05/2020
Detailed description not provided.
Scottish Government - Gorebridge Community Development Trust
£11,300 12/05/2020
Detailed description not provided.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Gorebridge Community Development Trust
£5,000 24/04/2020
To deliver food parcels to people within the community who are vulnerable and self-isolating.
Scottish Government - Gorebridge Community Development Trust
£57,000 16/04/2020
Detailed description not provided.
Robertson Trust - towards the salary costs of the Helping Hands Coordinator
£10,000 23/08/2019
towards the salary costs of the Helping Hands Coordinator
National Lottery Community Fund - Gorebridge Community Development Trust
£150,000 14/06/2018
24
This group will use the funding to support the first two years of operation of the new multipurpose community owned Beacon facility in Gorebridge. The facility will host a wide ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Gorebridge Community Development Trust
£10,000 25/07/2016
Gorebridge Memories and the Industries of the Great War
National Lottery Community Fund - The Forest Playground - promoting play in nature
£10,000 07/05/2013
12
The trust will run a 12 month forest schools project for children aged 3 -8 and their parents, running on weekends and summer evenings. Classes will be free and parents will learn new play based ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - The Gorebridge Community Hub
£950,000 21/04/2010
60
This project will build a new community hub in Gorebridge, in Midlothian. It will provide a community cafe; office space for charities and community groups; accommodation for small local/start up ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (8)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 37-73
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 03/12/2004, number: SC036141
  • Registered at Companies House on 03/12/2004, number: SC276942
Filing Record
5 returns made; AR21: 10 days late, AR19: 30 days late,
Main office

Gorebridge Beacon, Hunterfield Road, Gorebridge, Midlothian, EH23 4TT

Objectives

3. The company has been formed to benefit the community of Gorebridge which comprises all the postcode units within sector EH23 4 ('the Community') with the following objects: a) To promote the community and general public and its environs without distinction of sex, sexuality, political, religious or other opinions by associating the local statutory authorities, voluntary organisations and inhabitants in a common effort to advance education and to provide facilities, or assist in the provision of facilities, in the interest of social welfare for recreation and other leisure-time occupation so that their conditions of life may be improved. (b) To advance education and in particular to promote opportunities for learning for the benefit of the community and the general public. (c) To preserve, restore and improve the environment in the community through the provision, maintenance and/or improvement of public open space and other public amenities and other environmental and regeneration projects (but subject to appropriate safeguards to ensure that the public benefit s so arising clearly outweigh any private benefit thereby conferred on private landowners. (d) To relieve those in need by the promotion of trade and industry within the Community for the benefit of the Community and the general public. (e) To promote training, particularly among residents oft e Community, and with particular reference to skills which will assist the participants in obtaining paid employment. (f) To help young people, particularly those resident in within the Community, to develop their physical, mental and spiritual capacities, such that they may grow to full maturity as individuals and as members of society. (g) To preserve, for the benefit of the Community, the historical, architectural and constructional heritage that may exist within the Community in buildings (including any structure or erection and any part of a building as so defined) of particular beauty or historical, architectural or constructional interest. (h) To promote the rehabilitation of offenders and_ex offenders by the provision of education and training, the provision of assistance in finding work for such persons and the promotion or support of any project or scheme directed towards the prevention of crime or delinquency within the Community (i)To promote, establish, operate and/or support other searches and projects of a charitable nature for the benefit of the Community.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
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