Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 6
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • Grant maker support: +6
    Overall GiG Score: 6 ?

    CORSTORPHINE COMMUNITY CENTRE 

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
    • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years

    Financial issues to consider:

    • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
    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
    Total income £41,411 £84,400 £82,544 £95,098 £124,662 £111,767
    Total spending £9,751 £69,838 £86,336 £90,108 £145,706 £210,592
    Surplus/deficit £31,660 £14,562 -£3,792 £4,990 -£21,044 -£98,825
    Listed activities
    • It carries out activities or services itself
    Purposes
    • The advancement of education
    • 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
    Where it operates
    • City of Edinburgh
    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
    Robertson Trust£28,500
    Foundation Scotland£18,000
    DCMS£5,000
    Co-Operative Group£4,446
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Co-Operative Group - Grant to Corstorphine Community Centre (CCC)
    £1,933 22/10/2022
    We would like to teach the community to grow their own fruit and vegetables to feed their families, and to celebrate different cultures and reduce dependency on foodbanks.
    Foundation Scotland - Men About Town
    £5,000 25/07/2022
    To support the Men's Shed and Sporting Memory Group to get out and about for trips and visits.
    Foundation Scotland - Community Connections
    £3,000 21/09/2021
    To cover the cost of running events to tackle isolation.
    Foundation Scotland - Grant to Corstorphine Community Centre
    £5,000 03/12/2020
    To maintain a foodbank and hot meals service providing free food to disadvantaged community members in Corstorphine.
    Co-Operative Group - Grant to Corstorphine Community Centre
    £2,513 24/10/2020
    We would like to increase our presence in the village, by introducing new groups to help reduce loneliness and social isolation.
    DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
    £5,000 07/10/2020
    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
    Foundation Scotland - Grant to Corstorphine Community Centre
    £5,000 07/10/2020
    to provide digital devices and training to those struggling to access online services due to digital poverty, or lack of skills. To maintain a foodbank and hot meals service providing free food to ....more
    Robertson Trust - The salary costs of the Corstorphine Community Centre Manager
    £28,500 23/08/2019
    The salary costs of the Corstorphine Community Centre Manager
    Robertson Trust - Corstorphine Community Centre Capital Build
    £90,000 11/09/2018
    Corstorphine Community Centre Capital Build
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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 25/09/2015, number: SC046009
    • Notes: This SCIO was incorporated on the 19th January 2018 as a result of the conversion of a charitable company Corstorphine Public Hall Company Limited SC002122 Corstorphine Community Centre SC046009 has accepted the assets and liabilities of Corstorphine Youth And Community Association SC010850 which was dissolved on 31/08/2018 as a result of an Application to Transfer its Undertaking under section 61 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005.
    Filing Record
    5 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    Corstorphine Hub, 5 Kirk Loan, Edinburgh, EH12 7HD

    Objectives

    The organisation has been formed to benefit the community of Corstorphine as more fully described in 4.2.2 below (the “Community”) with the following purposes: 4. The organisation’s purposes are: 4.1 To advance education and to provide, or assist, in the provision of recreational facilities, or organise recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended: 4.2 To advance citizenship or community development:- 4.2.1 in the interests of Social Welfare. and 4.2.2 with the object of improving the conditions of life of the members of the Community bounded as follows being the area of benefit: on the North by Queensferry Road from Barnton Lights to junction with Craigcrook Road, Ravelston Dykes to Junction with Roseburn/Blackhall footpath on the East by Roseburn/Blackhall footpath from Glasgow Rail line to Ravelston Dykes on the South by Glasgow Rail line from Roseburn/Blackhall footpath to Edinburgh Bypass on the West by Maybury Road from Barnton Lights to junction with Craigs Rd, West to Junction with Turnhouse Road, SE to Junction with Edinburgh bypass then up to Glasgow Rail line. And for those purposes to work with the City of Edinburgh Council and any successor organisations (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Council’), voluntary organisations and inhabitants in the area of benefit. 4.3 To co-operate with the Council in establishing, maintaining and managing a youth and community centre situated in the area of benefit (to be known as The ‘Corstorphine Community Centre’) which may be grant aided by the Council insofar as it is established, maintained and managed for the attainment of clauses 4.1 and 4.2 above.

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator
    360 Giving
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