ISLE FUTURES 

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

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Isle of Whithorn Community Fun Days
£9,750	22/06/2023	This group will use the funding to bring the community together for a pirate-themed celebration weekend.
National Lottery Community Fund - Building on Past Successes for a Stronger Isle Futures
£138,962	26/04/2023	Building on Past Successes for a Stronger Isle Futures
National Lottery Community Fund - Isle Futures
£135,392	29/03/2021 23	This group will use the funding to continue to provide a range of activities and community events from the St Ninian’s Hall multi-purpose facility including the operation of the only shop and café ....more This group will use the funding to continue to provide a range of activities and community events from the St Ninian’s Hall multi-purpose facility including the operation of the only shop and café in the Isle of Whithorn. Funding will be used to hire someone to assist with the running of the tea room and retail area so that the current coordinator has more time for strategic work including developing opportunities for income generation and providing a programme of activities for the community.
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£5,000	30/09/2020	NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots and small organisations who can provide an on-the-ground community response to the crisis; and, support local charitable organisations to mobilise volunteers to enable better targeted support in communities through empowered local groups.
Scottish Government - Isle Futures / St Ninian's Trading Ltd
£28,000	22/04/2020	Detailed description not provided.
National Lottery Community Fund - Isle Futures
£105,015	21/02/2018 35	This group will use the funding to enhance the services available from their community hub, the redeveloped St Ninian's Hall in the Isle of Whithorn. The centre already hosts a range of local clubs ....more This group will use the funding to enhance the services available from their community hub, the redeveloped St Ninian's Hall in the Isle of Whithorn. The centre already hosts a range of local clubs including an arts group and 'Machars Movies' - Scotland's southernmost cinema. The group will now be able to provide more classes, events, and regular activities as well as providing transport to elderly residents who live further from the centre.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Isle Futures
£36,700	26/05/2014	Isle of Whithorn - Through The Years
National Lottery Community Fund - St Ninian's Hall Development Project
£1,007,574	13/03/2013 60	This project will be used to develop the community owned and run St. Ninian's Hall in the Isle of Whithorn by building an annexe which will double the floor area and provide a tearoom, village shop ....more This project will be used to develop the community owned and run St. Ninian's Hall in the Isle of Whithorn by building an annexe which will double the floor area and provide a tearoom, village shop with post office, public toilets and storage space. The project will benefit 300 local residents, in particular older and younger people at risk of social isolation and create at least 3 full-time jobs and 3 part-time jobs. The project will also benefit the 15,000-20,000 tourists annually who visit the village.

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

Directors (4)

Legal constitution

• Charity registered in Scotland on 25/01/2007, number: SC037758
• Registered at Companies House on 17/12/2001, number: SC226372

Filing Record

Main office

Isle Futures, Saint Ninian's, Isle of Whithorn, Newton Stewart, Wigtownshire, Wigtownshire, DG8 8LH

Objectives

To relieve poverty, particularly among the residents of the lsle of Whithorn and surrounding area. To relieve the need, suffering and distress of those who are isolated byway of their age or infirmity/disability and to seek to involve them in the community as a way of ending their isolation. To provide or assist in the provision of amenities for the benefit of the general public, providing always that these amenities are over and above those that it is the statutory obligation of the local authority to provide and that any private benefit incurred is greatly outweighed by the public benefit. To promote the benefit of the inhabitants of the Isle of Whithorn and its environs by associating the local statutory authorities, voluntary organisations and inhabitants in a common effort to advance education and to provide, or assist in the provision of the facilities, in the interest of social welfare for recreation and other leisure-time occupation so their conditions of life can improve. To promote and/or provide training, financial or technical assistance, or business advice or consultancy in order' to assist the beneficiaries in obtaining, creating or sustaining employment opportunities within the community either by setting up their own business or through an existing business. To preserve, restore and improve the environment in and around the Isle of Whithorn through the provision, maintenance and/or improvement to public open space and other public amenities and other environmental and townscape regeneration projects and on the basis that in doing so, the company shall seek, wherever appropriate (but subject to appropriate safeguards to ensure that the public benefit so arising clearly outweighs any private benefit thereby conferred on private landowners) to carry out works of reclamation, restoration, erosion prevention and other operations to facilitate the use of these purposes of land whose use has been prevented or restricted because of previou