Finance Score: -10
Governance Score: -3
Support Score: 2
  • Accounts overdue -5
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
  • Return overdue: -3
  • Grant maker support: +2
Overall GiG Score: -11 ?

MOFFAT COMMUNITY WOODLANDS  

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers and there are significant future grants due to be received

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Latest return is overdue

Financial issues to consider:

  • Latest accounts are overdue for filing
  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/03/18 31/03/19 31/03/20 31/03/21 31/03/22
Total income £30,606 £14,947 £6,958 £17,823 £2,035
Total spending £45,508 £29,578 £3,471 £22,288 £2,934
Surplus/deficit -£14,902 -£14,631 £3,487 -£4,465 -£899
Established: 8 years
Scottish Charity Regulator
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • Community services
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','the advancement of environmental protection or improvement
Where it operates
  • Dumfries And Galloway
Who it helps
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Who supports 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
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Moffat Community Woodlands
£3,268 22/10/2022
Our project aims to improve access to, and the enjoyment and understanding of, three locations in Moffat: Gallow Hill, the community nature reserve and Dyke Farm nature reserve.
National Lottery Community Fund - Completing the circle of planting
£7,744 23/11/2020
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This group will use the funding to complete the planting of a community owned woodland in Moffat.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Moffat Community Woodlands
£4,152 15/11/2019
We want to buy tools to help volunteers with site activities like tree planting and maintenance, dyke and fence repair and path maintenance.
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Moffat Community Woodlands
£2,635 29/11/2017
We are developing Gallow Hill as mixed broadleaf woodland for the whole community to enjoy, and this project will improve access for all.

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 18/05/2016, number: SC046567
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

Queensberry House, Beechgrove, Moffat, Dumfries & Galloway, DG10 9RS

Objectives

The company has been formed to benefit the community of Moffat and District [DG10 post code area] ('the Community'), and visitors thereto, with the following objects: 4.1 The advancement of community development, including the advancement of rural regeneration 4.2 The advancement of education 4.3 The advancement of citizenship 4.4 The advancement of environmental protection or improvement 4.5 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

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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