Overall GiG Score: -1 ?
Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 4
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • Grant maker support: +4

    GALSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST 

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently

    Financial issues to consider:

    • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
    Established: 12 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Financial Data
    Income & Spending ?
    Period ending 31/07/17 31/07/18 31/07/19 31/07/20 31/07/21 31/07/22
    Total income £226,230 £963,102 £177,010 £126,642 £77,597 £79,925
    Total spending £151,985 £147,204 £167,308 £148,862 £135,395 £135,032
    Surplus/deficit £74,245 £815,898 £9,702 -£22,220 -£57,798 -£55,107
    What it does
    • It carries out activities or services itself
    Who it helps
    • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
    Purposes
    • The advancement of education
    • The advancement of citizenship or community development
    • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science','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
    Where it operates
    • Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: East Ayrshire

    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 - Community panto 2022
    £1,350 28/09/2022
    This group will use the funding to deliver a festive pantomime by bringing a local performing arts group's production to the town. The project has targeted the local older community because of the ....more
    National Lottery Community Fund - Tots of Fun
    £3,320 31/08/2021
    This grant will fund free and accessible parent and child activity sessions at The Portland in Galston.
    Scottish Government - Galston Community Development Trust
    £6,421 29/04/2020
    Detailed description not provided.
    Robertson Trust - salary costs of the Activity Co-Ordinator
    £30,000 21/11/2017
    salary costs of the Activity Co-Ordinator

    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 13/07/2012, number: SC043291
    Filing Record
    5 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    Galston Community Development Trust Office, The Portland, 2 - 4 Cross Street, Galston, Ayrshire, KA4 8AL

    Objectives

    The organisation?s purposes are: 1.To advance rural regeneration and community development and, in particular, to promote the holistic regeneration of Galston and its surroundings so that it can be a sustainable, inclusive community for all who live or work in the area. 2.To promote the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment. 3.To provide recreational facilities and organise recreational activities and with a particular focus on encouraging the use of open spaces for recreational purposes to improve the communities quality of life. 4.To advance arts, heritage, culture, science and education, including lifelong learning. 5. And on the basis that in pursuing those purposes, the organisation will: (a) encourage and promote: (i) community involvement in and direction of Galston Town Centre Regeneration. (ii) ownership and/or leasing of buildings, offices or any other community assets and the use of these assets to generate income. and (iii) maximisation of funding opportunities. (b) work in partnership with public, private and voluntary agencies in the furtherance of these aims and, in particular, work in partnership with East Ayrshire Council and its community planning partners to identify regeneration projects within Galston Town Centre.

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator
    360 Giving
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