Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 6
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 0 ?

WHITEINCH CENTRE LTD 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 3 trustees
  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Established: 18 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 £292,417 £328,231 £327,406 £312,057 £235,352 £172,301
Total spending £327,364 £297,677 £319,555 £245,629 £263,039 £257,558
Surplus/deficit -£34,947 £30,554 £7,851 £66,428 -£27,687 -£85,257
Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Purposes
  • The advancement of education
  • 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
Where it operates
  • Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: Glasgow City
  • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation
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 Government - Whiteinch Centre Ltd
£26,622 19/05/2020
Detailed description not provided.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Whiteinch Centre
£17,000 07/11/2019
purchase of IT and refurbishment of an IT suite for a charity which works with disadvantaged minority communities in Glasgow
Robertson Trust - The Volunteer Coordinator for the Volunteer Programme
£30,000 25/02/2019
The Volunteer Coordinator for the Volunteer Programme
Virgin Money Foundation - Grant to Whiteinch Centre
£250 08/01/2019
Grant through the Heart of the Community Fund used to increase the skills on the team with accredited volunteer training.
National Lottery Community Fund - The Whiteinch Centre
£118,000 14/12/2018
36
This group will use the funding to run the community-owned Whiteinch Centre delivering a range of activities and services including a volunteer programme, social inclusion clubs and a varied ....more
Corra Foundation - HDA-17/389
£5,500 05/10/2017
Towards sessional staff costs to run the Work Club and the One Stop Shop supporting 170 people each year.
Glasgow City Council - Ground Floor Regeneration and Café Upgrade
£23,222 14/04/2016
To improve the ground floor area of the Whiteinch centre and upgrade the café
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Whiteinch Centre Ltd
£71,200 10/03/2016
36
towards three years' salary of the Learning and Development Coordinator at a project providing community support services in deprived areas of Glasgow
Robertson Trust - the Volunteer Programme
£43,500 31/08/2015
the Volunteer Programme
National Lottery Community Fund - Sustainable Whiteinch
£297,817 19/06/2013
36
This project aims to make the Whiteinch Centre a more sustainable community asset with increased capacity to meet demand for health, leisure and community activities. This project will enable the ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (3)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 52-58
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 11/10/2006, number: SC037530
  • Registered at Companies House on 11/07/2006, number: SC305240
Filing Record
5 returns made; AR21: 203 days late,
Main office

The Whiteinch Centre, 1 Northinch Court, Glasgow, G14 0UG

Objectives

Provide provision of recreational, educational & training facilities, or the organisation of recreational, educational and training activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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