Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 6
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • Grant maker support: +6
    Overall GiG Score: 6 ?

    CONCRETE GARDEN 

    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
    Established: 12 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Financial Data
    Income & Spending ?
    Period ending 31/01/18 31/01/19 31/01/20 31/01/21 31/01/22 31/01/23
    Charitable activities £252,852
    Donations & Legacies £1,320 £950
    Other Income £290,478
    Investment Income
    Total income £246,541 £254,172 £203,411 £291,428 £280,949 £305,769
    Charitable activities spending £218,599 £226,583 £286,160
    Fundraising costs
    Other spending
    Total spending £242,273 £218,599 £226,543 £226,583 £254,560 £286,160
    Surplus/deficit £4,268 £35,573 -£23,132 £64,845 £26,389 £19,609
    Listed activities
    • It carries out activities or services itself
    Purposes
    • The advancement of citizenship or community development
    • The provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended
    • The advancement of environmental protection or improvement
    Where it operates
    • Glasgow City
    Who it helps
    • 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.

    Major supporters in last 5 years
    National Lottery Community Fund£148,821
    Garfield Weston Foundation£50,000
    Foundation Scotland£11,000
    Scottish Government£10,100
    CAF£9,600
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
    £25,000 04/04/2022
    Core delivery and operational costs of Concrete Garden Charity
    Foundation Scotland - Grant to Concrete Garden
    £5,000 21/10/2020
    To provide online sessions in Tai Chi, drumming, bread-making, and arts and crafts, and to provide Grow at Home kits to local residents.
    BBC Children in Need - Grant to Concrete Garden
    £2,600 17/06/2020
    6
    COVID19 - This grant will fund the installation of a solar water heater so 50 children currently isolated by Covid can wash their hands when the playground reopens. It means they will reconnect with ....more
    Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
    £25,000 12/06/2020
    Happy, Healthy and Thriving.
    CAF - Grant to Concrete Garden
    £9,600 01/06/2020
    3
    Grant to Concrete Garden to support the organisation through COVID19
    DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
    £2,600 01/06/2020
    NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
    Scottish Government - Concrete Garden
    £10,100 07/05/2020
    Detailed description not provided.
    Foundation Scotland - Grant to Concrete Garden
    £5,000 09/04/2020
    To deliver virtual play and relaxation sessions; provide play and activity packs; provide phone contact; and contribute to local food production and distribution for vulnerable households in the ....more
    Foundation Scotland - Grant to Concrete Garden
    £1,000 26/03/2020
    To support costs towards delivering support to more vulnerable members n Possilpark differently, including the purchase and distribution of play indoors activity packs, grow your own packs and ....more
    National Lottery Community Fund - Concrete Garden
    £148,821 27/01/2020
    35
    This group will use the funding to continue delivering a variety of gardening, cooking, social, therapeutic and wellbeing activities in Possilpark. The activities, delivered over two sites, will ....more
    Corra Foundation - HDA-19/54
    £4,000 01/02/2019
    Towards the costs to run the Social & Therapeutic Gardening Programme.
    Tudor Trust - Grant to Concrete Garden
    £70,000 20/11/2017
    24
    over two years as continuation funding towards salary and running costs of a volunteering programme in Possilpark, Glasgow
    Corra Foundation - HDA-17/193
    £4,500 08/06/2017
    towards the salary of the full-time Urban Growing & Community Development Worker based at St Matthews Church
    Robertson Trust - The salary costs of the Project Manager
    £52,500 21/03/2017
    The salary costs of the Project Manager
    National Lottery Community Fund - Concrete Garden
    £149,763 26/02/2017
    36
    This project will extend activities at the organisations Back Garden site to include a family gardening club, outdoor play and cookery sessions for children, a series of family oriented seasonal ....more
    Glasgow City Council - The Big Tweak
    £16,257 14/04/2016
    To redesign and improve the community garden
    Tudor Trust - Grant to Concrete Garden
    £90,000 13/11/2014
    36
    over three years towards the salary and running costs of a volunteer programme in Possilpark, Glasgow_x000D_
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in Scotland on 15/05/2012, number: SC043154
    Filing Record
    5 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    St Matthews Centre, 200 Balmore Road, Glasgow, Glasgow, G22 6LJ

    Objectives

    4 To promote for the benefit of the public the advancement of citizenship, civic responsibility, sustainable community development and urban regeneration of the community of Possilpark and the wider North Glasgow Area 4.1 To provide recreational activities with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons whom the activities and facility?s are intended 4.2 To advance environmental protection, improvement and education to all people.

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator
    360 Giving
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