Finance Score: -1

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 5

Reasonable growth: +1
Multiple Deficits: -2
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3

Grant maker support: +5

Overall GiG Score: 10

LANARK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending

Established: 15 years

Financial Data

Income & Spending ?

Period ending	30/06/17	30/06/18	30/06/19	30/06/20	30/06/21	30/06/22	30/06/23
Total income	£27,251	£96,880	£276,113	£179,663	£136,271	£115,616	£223,589
Total spending	£49,657	£88,269	£182,154	£154,997	£172,554	£176,711	£229,163
Surplus/deficit	-£22,406	£8,611	£93,959	£24,666	-£36,283	-£61,095	-£5,574

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Listed activities

It carries out activities or services itself

Purposes

The advancement of education
The advancement of citizenship or community development
The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science','the advancement of environmental protection or improvement

Where it operates

Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: South Lanarkshire

Who it helps

Children or young people
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
National Lottery Community Fund - Lanark Community Development Trust
£94,200	10/11/2021 36	The organisation will use the funding to sustain the employment of a full-time Educational Gardener at Castlebank Horticultural Centre in Lanark for three years providing the local and nearby ....more The organisation will use the funding to sustain the employment of a full-time Educational Gardener at Castlebank Horticultural Centre in Lanark for three years providing the local and nearby communities with a vibrant and diverse learning and education opportunity which is open to people of all ages capabilities and backgrounds. This will involve delivering and facilitating a wide range of horticultural educational training and volunteering opportunities.
Scottish Government - Lanark Community Development Trust
£22,000	18/01/2021	Detailed description not provided.
National Lottery Community Fund - Castlebank Community Apiary
£6,200	28/02/2019 12	This project will install two beehives to educate and engage the local community on the importance of bees and the art of beekeeping.
National Lottery Community Fund - Lanark Community Development Trust
£99,940	03/10/2018 36	This group will use the funding to deliver a three year community gardening project, which will provide activities for the local community in Lanark. The project will deliver a range of ....more This group will use the funding to deliver a three year community gardening project, which will provide activities for the local community in Lanark. The project will deliver a range of horticultural, educational and volunteering opportunities to local people of all ages and backgrounds. It will help local people take control of their lives, reduce isolation and improve community connections.
National Lottery Community Fund - Design for Lanark Development Trust Community hub
£9,045	16/06/2017 12	This funding will allow the Trust to commission detailed designs and tender documentation for the conversion of the sawmill buildings within Castlebank Park into a community hub. The trust have ....more This funding will allow the Trust to commission detailed designs and tender documentation for the conversion of the sawmill buildings within Castlebank Park into a community hub. The trust have completed a new feasibility design for the conversion of this derelict building into a community run volunteering and training centre.
National Lottery Community Fund - Castlebank Horticultural and Environmental Training Centre
£26,000	24/06/2015 12	Castlebank Horticultural and Environmental Training Centre
National Lottery Community Fund - Castlebank Horticultural Centre (Community Spaces)
£10,000	24/02/2012 12	This group received development funding for a project that would create a horticultural training facility within Castlebank Park, Lanark.

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How is it governed?

Directors (8)

Current Directors appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 42-79

BARR, Valerie Jane
Appointed: 2022
Occupation: Financial Advisor

MASTERS, Jane Kane
Appointed: 2020
Occupation: Director

MCLEAN, Eleanor
Appointed: 2011
Occupation: Company Director

MCLEISH, Richard Graeme
Appointed: 2018
Occupation: Financial Adviser

NICHOLSON, Annemarie
Appointed: 2024
Occupation: Director

RUSSELL, Sylvia
Appointed: 2009
Occupation: Retired

SWAN, Loraine
Appointed: 2019
Occupation: Retired

TENNANT, William
Appointed: 2023
Occupation: Solicitor

Legal constitution

Charity registered in Scotland on 16/06/2009, number: SC040584
Registered at Companies House on 03/06/2009, number: SC360621

Filing Record

5 returns made; all on time

Main office

Castlebank Horticultural Centre, St Patrick's Road, Lanark, ML11 9EG

Objectives

The company has been formed to benefit principally the community of Lanark which comprises the 'Settlement of Lanark (Sl9001652)' plus the following postcodes: ML11 7TF, ML11 7RL, ML11 7RZ, ML117RQ, ML117RR, Ml11 9EH, ML11-9DA, ML11 9ZR, ML11 9FZ, ML11 SSF, ML11 SSQ, ML119TA, ML117SA, ML11 9S2, ML119TB, M.L11 SSG ('the Community') with the following objects: (1) The advancement of community development (including the advancement of rural regeneration) principally within the Community. (2) To provide within the Community recreational facilities and/or organise recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended. (3 To advance education and in particular to promote opportunities for learning for the benefit of the general public. (4) To advance citizenship and community development. (5) To advance the arts and/or culture. (6) To advance environmental protection and improvement in the Community through the provision, maintenance and/or improvement of public open space and other public amenities and other environmental and regeneration projects (but subject to safeguards to ensure that the public benefits so arising clearly outweigh and private benefit, thereby conferred on private landowners). (7) To help young people, particularly those resident in the Community, to, develop their physical, mental and spiritual capacities, such as that they may grow to full maturity as individuals and members of society. (8) To advance heritage and/or preserve, 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. (9) To promote, establish, operate and/or support other similar schemes and projects .of a charitable nature for the benefit of the residents of the Community. But only to the extent that the above purposes are consistent with furthering the achievement of sustainable. development

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