Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 0
  • Volatile income
  • spending growth: -1
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • Grant maker support: +0
    Overall GiG Score: -1 ?

    THE WEST BRAES PROJECT 

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker
    • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

    Financial issues to consider:

    • Income has been volatile recently but spending has been maintained
    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 £18,608 £23,183 £15,984 £276,555 £50,561 £24,911
    Total spending £9,378 £2,083 £7,235 £227,971 £55,024 £29,792
    Surplus/deficit £9,230 £21,100 £8,749 £48,584 -£4,463 -£4,881
    Established: 7 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
    • It carries out activities or services itself
    GiG Classification
    • Community services
    Purposes
    • The prevention or relief of poverty
    • The advancement of education
    • The advancement of health','the advancement of citizenship or community development','the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science','the advancement of public participation in sport','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
    • Fife
    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 The West Braes Project (SCO47249)
    £8,914 19/11/2018
    We want to create a sensory garden for use by everyone in the community and need to buy tools and plants.

    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 17/03/2017, number: SC047249
    Filing Record
    5 returns made; AR21: 148 days late,
    Main office

    , KY11 8XP

    Objectives

    4.1 To provide within 'the Community' 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 education and in particular to promote opportunities for learning for the benefit of the general public. 4.3 To advance environmental protection and improvement in 'the Community' through the provision, maintenance and/or improvement of public open space and other public amenities and other environmental and regeneration projects (but subject to appropriate safeguards to ensure that the public benefits so arising clearly outweigh any private benefit thereby conferred on private landowners). 4.4 To prevent or relieve poverty particularly among the residents of ' the Community'. 4.5 To help young people, particularly those resident in 'the Community', to develop their physical, mental and spiritual capacities, such that they may grow to full maturity as individuals and as members of society. 4.6 To advance heritage and/or preserve, for the benefit of the general public, the historical, architectural and constructional heritage that may exist in and around ' the Community' in buildings (including any structure or erection, and any part of a building as so defined) of particular beauty or historical, architectural or constructional interest. 4.7 To advance the health of the residents of 'the Community', and to assist in the relief of ill health and the provision of health education for such residents.

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator
    360 Giving
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