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Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 1
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Grant maker support: +1
Overall GiG Score: 3 ?

IT'S GOOD 2 GIVE! 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly female

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
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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
Charitable activities £225,690 £439,269 £355,100 £132,734
Donations & Legacies £266,529 £295,582 £275,555
Other Income
Investment Income £1,300 £2,126 £5,170 £11,758
Total income £493,519 £736,977 £635,825 £206,888 £266,482 £367,730
Charitable activities spending £11,980 £246,589 £310,683 £504,716
Fundraising costs 15% 9% 19% 5% 16%
Other spending £35,307
Total spending £120,640 £313,514 £430,103 £336,313 £344,980 £562,376
Surplus/deficit £372,879 £423,463 £205,722 -£129,425 -£78,498 -£194,646
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Established: 14 years

www.itsgood2give.co.uk

Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • General outpatient health-care services
Purposes
  • The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Where it operates
  • More than one local authority area in Scotland, main operating location: City of Edinburgh
Who it helps
  • Children or young people
  • People with disabilities or health problems
  • Other charities or voluntary bodies

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
Co-Operative Group - Grant to It's Good 2 Give!
£2,335 22/10/2022
Our aim is to give families with children affected by cancer the opportunity to enjoy a short break together at our purpose-built retreat, away from the everyday realities of living with cancer.
National Lottery Community Fund - Supporting our Volunteers and Young Ambassadors
£10,000 10/05/2021
This group will develop a new programme of training for their volunteers and ambassadors to increase the confidence and resilience in young people (aged 8-18 years) with lived experience of cancer.
Robertson Trust - the Ripple Retreat Project
£20,000 28/02/2015
the Ripple Retreat Project

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: 19-73
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 20/04/2010, number: SC041416
  • Registered at Companies House on 16/04/2010, number: SC376977
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

Ripple Retreat, Invertrossachs Road, Callander, FK17 8HG

Objectives

The objects for which the Company is established are the care and wellbeing of young people with cancer and/or life limiting conditions and their families, the provision of accommodation for care and respite for young people with cancer and/or life limiting conditions and their families.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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