Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 2
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +2
Overall GiG Score: 1 ?

EAST AYRSHIRE COALFIELD ENVIRONMENT INITIATIVE 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker
  • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 3 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

  • 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 £144,209 £122,899 £67,734 £143,792 £89,299 £103,322
Total spending £149,677 £139,966 £83,015 £114,451 £98,426 £120,205
Surplus/deficit -£5,468 -£17,067 -£15,281 £29,341 -£9,127 -£16,883
Established: 19 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • Environment conservation & animal welfare advocacy
Purposes
  • The advancement of environmental protection or improvement
Where it operates
  • Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: East Ayrshire
  • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation
Who it helps
  • Children or young people
  • 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
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000 19/03/2021
Coalfields for Pollinators
Scottish Government - East Ayrshire Coalfield Environment Initiative
£8,750 20/04/2020
Detailed description not provided.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000 26/04/2018
Nature Network Legacy

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (3)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 33-64
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 29/12/2005, number: SC037177
  • Registered at Companies House on 29/12/2005, number: SC294937
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

, KA1 1DD

Objectives

To promote the conservation, protection and improvement of the environment for public benefit and promote a high quality environment within the Coalfield region that will be attractive to local people, visitors and investors. In furtherance of these objects, but not otherwise, the CEI shall seek: 1) To enhance the natural environment and landscape within the project area through partnership working and other interests, 2) To improve the access to and understanding of the environmental and natural heritage of the project area, 3) To raise public and political awareness of the environmental significance of the project area.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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