Finance Score: -20
Governance Score: -3
Support Score: 0
  • Accounts overdue -5
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • Dormant: -10
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
  • Return overdue: -3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: -23 ?

COMMON GOOD FOOD

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Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Latest return is overdue

Financial issues to consider:

  • Latest accounts are overdue for filing
  • Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
  • This charity appears to be dormant
Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 30/06/17 30/06/18 30/06/19
Total income £7,024 £750 £0
Total spending £9,007 £1,903 £525
Surplus/deficit -£1,983 -£1,153 -£525
Established: 9 years
Scottish Charity Regulator
This Charity appears to be dormant
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • Community food services
Purposes
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of citizenship or community development
  • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science','the advancement of environmental protection or improvement
Where it operates
  • Operations cover all or most of Scotland, main operating location: City of Edinburgh
Who it helps
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
  • Other charities or voluntary bodies

Who supports them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees

Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 04/06/2015, number: SC045670
Filing Record
3 returns made; AR19: 61 days late,
Main office

30 Townhill Road, Dunfermline, KY12 0QX

Objectives

The organisation's purposes are: 4.1 To advance the arts, heritage, culture or science and to advance environmental protection through the promotion andthe practical application of the principles of food sovereignty in Scotland, where food sovereignty (as defined in the 2007 Food Sovereignty Declaration of Nyeleni (see Appendix 1) may be summarised as 'the right of all peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems'. 4.2 To advance community development through developing resources for communities to improve and redesign local food systems, working collaboratively with local groups and organisations, promoting skills sharing between all sections of the community and between generations, enabling communities to take control and develop sustainable methods of food production for the benefit of local people and the local economy. 4.3 To advance education through planning and delivering practical skills based training in all aspects of small scale sustainable food growing, production, processing, cooking and distribution in a manner which is accessible and inclusive to all members of the community, thus building capacity and enhancing local knowledge, skills and experience. 4.4 To advance environmental protection in the context of ecologically sustainable food production, increasing awareness and interest in the environment whilst developing low impact technologies and tools, including using bicycle power, to reduce carbon emissions and to allow local communities to produce food in a manner which is respectful of the natural environment. 4.5 To advance the arts, culture and heritage through the use of creative media such as drama, storytelling, music, creative writing and art, engaging with local talent and creative community projects, building an appreciation within the community of the interaction between the arts, culture, herit

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator

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