Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 6
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +6
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

THE ISLE OF KERRERA DEVELOPMENT TRUST 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition
Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/03/18 31/03/19 31/03/20 31/03/21 31/03/22 31/03/23
Charitable activities £130 £2,060
Donations & Legacies £379,381 £610,136
Other Income
Investment Income
Total income £6,132 £24,763 £106,336 £381,333 £595,189 £616,962
Charitable activities spending £49,943 £66,153
Fundraising costs 2% 1%
Other spending
Total spending £5,886 £34,791 £18,998 £49,943 £109,947 £69,441
Surplus/deficit £246 -£10,028 £87,338 £331,390 £485,242 £547,521
Established: 15 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • Community services
Purposes
  • The prevention or relief of poverty
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of health
Where it operates
  • Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: Argyll And Bute
Who it helps
  • Children or young people
  • People with disabilities or health problems
  • 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£85,584
William Grant Foundation£22,800
Scottish Government£21,840
Foundation Scotland£5,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
William Grant Foundation - General operating support 2023
£7,800 07/12/2023
Grant to support general operating costs, made in response to a need for revenue funding for account audit fees.
Scottish Government - The Isle of Kerrera Development Trust
£14,280 10/02/2021
Detailed description not provided.
Scottish Government - The Isle of Kerrera Development Trust
£7,560 28/01/2021
Detailed description not provided.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Isle of Kerrera Development Trust
£5,000 27/01/2021
2
To fund the provision of a privately-run boat service three times a week for islanders based in the northern end of the Isle of Kerrera, allowing them access to the mainland until a track connecting ....more
William Grant Foundation - Old School building renovation
£15,000 07/12/2020
12
Contribution to capital costs of the renovation of the Old School Building on the island. Keywords: community assets; community ownership
National Lottery Community Fund - The Isle of Kerrera Development Trust
£85,584 19/03/2020
35
This group will use the funding to deliver a programme of community-led activities on the Isle of Kerrera including a music group, arts and crafts workshops, a playgroup, a book club and cooking ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Giving our community a home - Kerrera School
£8,500 25/01/2017
12
This group carry out projects and activities that benefit the local community. The group will use the funding to develop plans to refurbish a building and create a community facility.
Foundation Scotland - Isle of Kerrera enterprise to support infrastructure
£9,525 30/11/2016
12
to contribute towards purchasing equipment and training local residents in safe waste disposal.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (8)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split
Based on 7/8 persons

Age Range of Directors: 30-76
  • BROWN, Morna
    Appointed: 2023
    Occupation: Childcare Practitioner
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 18/03/2009, number: SC040372
  • Registered at Companies House on 05/03/2009, number: SC356015
Filing Record
4 returns made; all on time
Main office

Lower Gylen, Kerrera, Oban, Argyll, PA34 4SX

Objectives

The company has been formed to benefit the communities of the Isle of Kerrera and of all associated small islands in its immediate vicinity, which comprise the post code unit PA34 4SX ('the Community') with the following objects:- (1) To promote, for the public benefit, rural regeneration within the Community. (2) To advance environmental protection and/or improvement within the Community and in particular through:- (A) 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 benefits so arising clearly outweigh any private benefit thereby conferred on private landowners). and (B) encouraging the more efficient use of the world's resources, and in particular greater use of renewable energy sources so as (i) to minimise the proliferation of mines, wells and other extraction facilities which degrade the natural environment and (ii) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and thus avoid the damage to the natural environment caused by global warming. (3) To advance heritage through preserving, for the benefit of the general public, the historical, architectural and constructional heritage that may exist in and around 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. To provide recreational facilities or to organise recreational activities, within the Community, with such facilities/activities being available to members of the public at large with the object of improving their conditions of life. To advance the health of the residents of the Community and to assist in the relief of ill health and the provision of health education for such residents. To advance education among residents of the Community. To relieve unemployment, particularly among residents of the Community, includin

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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