Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 10
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +10
Overall GiG Score: 17 ?

WORKING RITE 

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 unusually low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition
  • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income was lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 13 years
(15 years as a company)
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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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 £658,870 £914,163 £743,139 £697,854 £768,027
Donations & Legacies £224,071 £175,930 £234,602 £355,369
Other Income £18 £29,886
Investment Income £125 £218 £56 £782
Total income £882,959 £1,090,218 £977,959 £1,083,165 £1,302,026 £1,053,799
Charitable activities spending £789,980 £995,570 £923,628 £964,170 £1,181,075
Fundraising costs 6% 5% 5% 4% 3% 4%
Other spending
Total spending £839,371 £1,044,962 £968,022 £1,004,226 £1,212,086 £1,219,564
Surplus/deficit £43,588 £45,256 £9,937 £78,939 £89,940 -£165,765
What it does
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Who it helps
  • Children or young people
  • Other defined groups
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
Purposes
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of citizenship or community development
  • The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Where it operates
  • UK and overseas, main operating location: City of Edinburgh
  • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation

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
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£93,000
Charles Hayward Foundation£40,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£30,000
Scottish Government£18,435
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Mentoring young people in early adulthood
£3,000 18/01/2023
WorkingRite’s mission is to support young people aged 16-25 years old in Scotland towards sustained employment, apprenticeships or purposeful learning. They aim to break down the barriers that ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£30,000 03/12/2021
WorkingRite: Delivering change to young people that is Earlier, Deeper and Longer
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Working Rite
£20,000 25/08/2021
'Pathfinder' mentored work placement programme for young people in Glasgow
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Mentoring young people in early adulthood
£90,000 19/07/2021
WorkingRite’s mission is to support young people aged 16-25 years old in Scotland towards sustained employment, apprenticeships or purposeful learning. They aim to break down the barriers that ....more
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Working Rite
£20,000 28/07/2020
'Pathfinder' mentored work placement programme for young people in Glasgow
Scottish Government - Working Rite
£18,435 26/05/2020
Detailed description not provided.
Glasgow City Council - North West Youth Employment Programme (Pathfinder Programme)
£226,905 15/03/2019
Will support young people, who attend youth services in the North West along the employability pathway. This will be through the provision of accredited training, engagement with employers and the ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Working Rite
£140,000 13/03/2019
36
towards three years' running costs of a project providing employability support and life skills workshops for disadvantaged young people across Scotland
BBC Children in Need - Grant to WorkingRite
£61,767 28/02/2019
36
Training and work-placement programme for young people aged 16-18 who are school non-attenders. They will receive tailored support to identify their strengths and raise aspirations, develop ....more
Robertson Trust - Salary Costs of the Project Coordinator (New Pioneers)
£45,000 04/12/2018
Salary Costs of the Project Coordinator (New Pioneers)
Co-Operative Group - Grant to WorkingRite
£5,382 19/11/2018
We want to buy tools and gardening supplies for our WorkingRite community allotment used for the engagement of our local young people.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£50,000 27/06/2018
Supporting & inspiring young people to achieve their potential
Glasgow City Council - North West Youth Employment Programme (Pathfinder Programme)
£226,905 07/06/2018
Will support young people, who attend youth services in the North West along the employability pathway. This will be through the provision of accredited training, engagement with employers and the ....more
Glasgow City Council - North West Youth EMployment Programme (Pathfinder Programme)
£226,905 14/04/2016
Will support young people, who attend youth services in the North West along the employability pathway. This will be through the provision of accredited training, engagement with employers and the ....more
Glasgow City Council - North West Youth EMployment Programme (Pathfinder Programme)
£39,633 14/04/2016
Will support young people, who attend youth services in the North West along the employability pathway. This will be through the provision of accredited training, engagement with employers and the ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Working Rite
£50,000 17/09/2015
24
towards two years' salary of a Project Coordinator at an organisation supporting NEET young people into training and work in Hastings and the surrounding area
Robertson Trust - The Project Manager (Edinburgh)
£30,000 28/02/2015
The Project Manager (Edinburgh)
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (7)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 30-50
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 21/09/2011, number: SC042604
  • Registered at Companies House on 03/06/2008, number: SC343819
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

Unit 1&2, 1 Northinch Court, Glasgow, G14 0UG

Objectives

The company is established for charitable purposes only. The company's objects are to carry on activities which benefit the community through the advancement of citizenship and community development and/or which provide or assist in the provision of relief to those in need by reason of financial hardship or other disadvantage (or both), in particular (but without limitation) by: (1) Encouraging civic values and increasing the efficiency of the voluntary sector by providing consultancy services to organisations which wish to provide work-based and other mentoring projects to disadvantaged groups within the community including (but without limitation) the following groups: - (a) teenagers who are deemed to be at risk of social exclusion. (b) individuals suffering from drug addiction. (c) criminal offenders. (d) care leavers. and (e) other individuals who would have difficulty in accessing the mainstream jobs market. (2) Assisting people who are at a disadvantage because of their social and economic circumstances by providing and facilitating the provision of training and employment opportunities (including the direct provision of mentoring projects) to individuals who would have difficulty in accessing work through the mainstream jobs market and doing so in an environment which maximises their prospects for sustaining themselves in employment through the provision of mentoring and other forms of support. (3) Encouraging voluntary activity and helping organisations engaged in voluntary work by providing financial and/or other support to charities, local authorities, housing associations, local enterprise companies, local regeneration agencies and other organisations which aim to assist those working towards the same or similar charitable purposes for which the company operates. and to promote such similar charitable purposes, objects or institutions and in such proportions and manner as the directors shall think fit.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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