Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 4
Support Score: 9
  • Volatile income
  • spending growth: -1
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 15 ?

LEUCHIE 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile recently but spending has been maintained
Established: 13 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/12/17 31/12/18 31/12/19 31/12/20 31/12/21 31/12/22
Charitable activities £1,025,605 £936,062 £629,555 £827,134
Donations & Legacies £989,866 £1,652,489 £1,444,745
Other Income £22,656 £21,191 £19,494 £20,732
Investment Income £36 £779 £522 £1,489
Total income £2,007,478 £2,156,927 £2,811,588 £2,134,673 £2,925,080 £2,008,135
Charitable activities spending £2,055,405 £2,111,648 £2,006,566 £2,281,963
Fundraising costs 7% 6% 5% 7% 8% 9%
Other spending
Total spending £2,027,848 £2,190,530 £2,246,650 £2,144,112 £2,519,774 £2,469,714
Surplus/deficit -£20,370 -£33,603 £564,938 -£9,439 £405,306 -£461,579
Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Purposes
  • The advancement of health
  • The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Where it operates
  • Scotland and other parts of the UK, main operating location: East Lothian
Who it helps
  • People with disabilities or health problems
  • Other defined groups

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£125,599
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust£104,232
Foundation Scotland£43,000
Scottish Government£16,539
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Leuchie
£20,000 22/06/2022
Donation from Tom Prew
National Lottery Community Fund - Using Technology to Empower
£117,086 16/11/2021
This group will use technology to enable choice and independence for people living with neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s Multiple Sclerosis and stroke at their Centre for Enabling ....more
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Leuchie
£15,000 07/10/2021
Inv 1530 woodland Creature Hare. From Ros Lowrie.
Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations - Enabling Skills Assistant
£6,772 01/07/2021
Detailed information not yet available.
Scottish Government - Leuchie
£1,633 31/05/2021
Detailed description not provided.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Leuchie
£500 15/04/2021
This donation is in support of Mark Bevan's Ride4Respite fundraising. Please consider it to be part of his fundraising total. From Sophie Tulloch.
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Head of Technology Enabled Care - Implementation Manager
£93,612 24/02/2021
Seeking strategic funding towards the salary of a Head of Technology Enabled Care - Implementation Manager who will lead plans to become the National Centre of Technology-enabled Care & ....more
Scottish Government - Leuchie
£6,393 16/12/2020
Detailed description not provided.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Leuchie
£1,500 14/12/2020
Donation from Millar Mathieson
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Technology Enabled Care - Feasibility Study
£10,620 05/08/2020
Seeking funding toward the cost of a feasibility study. To test the anecdotal evidence which has been gathered in recent years and help create a business plan to develop and trial integrated digital ....more
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Leuchie
£5,000 15/07/2020
General charitable donation from the Fountainhall Trust.
Scottish Government - Leuchie
£8,513 15/05/2020
Detailed description not provided.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Leuchie
£1,000 13/05/2020
Donation from the Stuart Cormack Memorial Trust
National Lottery Community Fund - Guest engagement during isolation - COVID-19
£8,513 06/05/2020
2
This group will provide a Scotland wide programme of virtual support for individuals and their families living with the long-term effects of neurological conditions including multiple sclerosis ....more
Robertson Trust - The capital costs of IT/Digital development work
£53,000 29/01/2019
The capital costs of IT/Digital development work
William Grant Foundation - General operating support
£20,000 08/11/2018
12
Unrestricted funding for the operation of a residential centre providing short breaks with expert care for people with MS and other long term conditions.
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Guest Engagement Programme - Manager Salary
£37,665 30/05/2018
Leuchie’s ethos is that a respite break should be one that empowers, providing choice and promoting independence, meaning the social aspect for each individual is paramount. Taking guests on trips ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Leuchie House
£14,000 08/02/2018
purchase and installation of a bell system for a charity which works with disabled people in North Berwick
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 10/05/2017
A True Integration of Health & Social Care: Dignity, Choice & Independence
Robertson Trust - The Nursing and Care Team
£75,000 21/03/2017
The Nursing and Care Team
RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Activities that Empower
£44,000 25/11/2015
The social aspect of a respite break is paramount to the overall service, providing an empowering quality of life experience for Leuchie guests and carers. An Activities Manager will be appointed to ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Leuchie House
£136,300 05/12/2013
36
towards three years' salary of the Head of Fundraising and Marketing at a project in East Lothian that provides short respite breaks with nursing care to people and their families who suffer with ....more
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How is it governed?

Directors (7)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 46-63
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 14/04/2011, number: SC042249
  • Registered at Companies House on 02/02/2011, number: SC392721
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

Leuchie House National Respite Centre, Leuchie House, North Berwick, East Lothian, EH39 5NT

Objectives

(a) To advance health by enhancing the quality of life of people affected by long term physical disability, including carers, through the provision and promotion of respite care or short breaks for respite purposes, and the provision and promotion of knowledge and understanding of long term conditions and of available services, in order to improve care and support for people affected by long term conditions and their families and carers and otherwise generally to promote the advancement of health and quality of life amongst people within the United Kingdom. and (b) To promote such similar charitable purposes, objects or institutions and in such proportions and manner as the Trustees shall think fit The expressions 'charitable purpose' or 'charitable object' shall mean a charitable purpose under section 7 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 which is also regarded as a charitable purpose in relation to the application of the Taxes Acts and a 'charitable institution' shall mean a body on the Scottish Charity Register which is also regarded as a charity in relation to the application of the Taxes Acts.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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