Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 4
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 13 ?

ETTRICK AND YARROW COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMPANY

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There have been no income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile recently and was substantially in excess of spending in the latest year
Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 30/06/19 30/06/20 30/06/21 30/06/22 30/06/23
Total income £53,918 £458,921 £433,728 £1,353,647 £241,715
Total spending £40,996 £127,533 £145,913 £107,463 £106,564
Surplus/deficit £12,922 £331,388 £287,815 £1,246,184 £135,151
Established: 7 years
(11 years as a company)
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • Provides financial or material assistance
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
  • Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: Scottish Borders
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 donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Foundation Scotland - Ettrick Marshes Rangers
£20,000 04/08/2022
7
To fund two part-time countryside rangers to continue managing and improving access and habitat in the Ettrick Marshes conservation area.
Foundation Scotland - Shared Project Management EYCDC/Borthwick Water
£19,978 04/08/2022
5
To support Ettrick and Yarrow Community Development Company and Borthwick Water Community Development Trust to develop community projects.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Ettrick and Yarrow Community Development Company
£20,000 12/08/2021
2
To contribute towards the cost of purchasing and installing the fixtures and fittings in five affordable houses for rent.
Scottish Government - Ettrick and Yarrow Community Development Company
£19,830 15/05/2020
Detailed description not provided.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (8)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 44-81
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 15/01/2018, number: SC048061
  • Registered at Companies House on 20/06/2013, number: SC452785
Filing Record
3 returns made; all on time
Main office

The Waterwheel Cafe, Philiphaugh, Selkirk, TD7 5LU

Objectives

To promote the advancement of citizenship and community development including the advancement of rural regeneration within the Ettrick and Yarrow valleys. Further to this: To promote the advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science. To promote the advancement of education. To promote the advancement of environmental protection or improvement. Although the Company is established for the benefit of the Communities in the specified Postcode Areas its activities are not restricted to those Areas, where such activities are to the benefit of Communities in the Specified Postcode Areas or are intrinsically connected with activities within the Specified Postcode Areas. But such that the company shall do so following principles of sustainable development.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving

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