Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • Grant maker support: +1
    Overall GiG Score: -4 ?

    SYNERGIE YOUTH PROJECT 

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

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

    Financial issues to consider:

    • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
    Financial Data
    Income & Spending ?
    Period ending 31/12/17 31/12/18 31/12/19 31/12/20 31/12/21 31/12/22
    Total income £11,179 £19,094 £9,904 £6,369 £10,622 £6,637
    Total spending £13,361 £9,764 £19,427 £6,199 £7,444 £8,754
    Surplus/deficit -£2,182 £9,330 -£9,523 £170 £3,178 -£2,117
    Established: 18 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
    • It carries out activities or services itself
    GiG Classification
    • Christian congregations
    Purposes
    • The advancement of education
    • The advancement of religion
    Where it operates
    • More than one local authority area in Scotland, main operating location: Fife
    • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation
    Who it helps
    • Children or young people

    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
    National Lottery Community Fund - Synergie Sessions
    £10,000 13/11/2018
    12
    This group will use the funding to provide activities and training programmes for the youth in Dunfermline and surrounding areas.

    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 02/03/2006, number: SC037278
    • Notes: This SCIO was incorporated on 19 October 2016 as a result of the conversion of a charitable company (SC298029, Synergie Youth Project)
    Filing Record
    5 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    , KY11 4JU

    Objectives

    4. The organisation’s purposes are the advancement of religion and the advancement of education of young people in the Dunfermline and West Fife area, which it seeks to do by: 4.1. introducing young people to the Christian faith and the teachings of Jesus Christ in a clear, relevant and every day manner, to encourage an awareness of the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual needs of others and training and equipping young people in the promotion and advancement of the Christian faith.

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator
    360 Giving
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