Finance Score: 5

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 7

Strong growth: +2
Fundraising costs low: +3
No PartB

(no info on trustees)

Grant maker support: +7

Overall GiG Score: 12

THURSO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TRUST

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
There has been strong growth in spending since inception
Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised

Financial Data

Income & Spending ?

Period ending	31/03/20	31/03/21	31/03/22	31/03/23
Charitable activities				£85,615
Donations & Legacies				£351,059
Other Income				£225
Investment Income				£1,000
Total income	£138,933	£247,752	£385,267	£445,016
Charitable activities spending				£382,695
Fundraising costs			0%	0%
Other spending				£4,080
Total spending	£103,192	£173,270	£340,832	£387,114
Surplus/deficit	£35,741	£74,482	£44,435	£57,902

Established: 5 years

www.thursocdt.co.uk

Listed activities

It carries out activities or services itself

GiG Classification

Community services

Purposes

The advancement of citizenship or community development

Where it operates

Highland

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years

Scottish Government	£92,500
National Lottery Community Fund	£52,000
Foundation Scotland	£10,481
Co-Operative Group	£3,361

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Thurso Community Development Trust
£3,361	23/10/2021	We would like to run a lunch club for older and vulnerable people in our community which would also have a focus on wellbeing and community resilience activities, such as digital skills sessions.
Foundation Scotland - Thurso Lunch Club
£2,381	21/09/2021 4	To cover the cost of running a monthly lunch club.
Scottish Government - Thurso Community Development Trust
£32,000	12/08/2021	Detailed description not provided.
National Lottery Community Fund - Thurso Grows and Eats
£52,000	15/06/2021	This group will use funding to develop their community garden and growing project in Thurso which provides educational workshops and volunteering opportunities to their membership from across Thurso ....more This group will use funding to develop their community garden and growing project in Thurso which provides educational workshops and volunteering opportunities to their membership from across Thurso and Caithness. Trained staff will facilitate workshops and engage with volunteers and participants to develop growing harvesting and cooking skills that encourage behavioural change for future sustainability.
Scottish Government - Thurso Community Development Trust
£5,500	11/03/2021	Detailed description not provided.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Thurso Community Development Trust
£5,000	03/12/2020 5	To provide a regular cooking club and food education programme including budgeting advice for 60 people experiencing food insecurity in the Thurso community due to poverty and disadvantage.
Scottish Government - Thurso Community Development Trust
£2,000	27/04/2020	Detailed description not provided.
Scottish Government - Thurso Community Development Trust
£53,000	22/04/2020	Detailed description not provided.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Thurso Community Development Trust
£3,100	22/04/2020	To contribute towards the costs of providing mobile phones, fuel and mobile phone top ups to support those who are financially most vulnerable in the community and enable them to stay connected; and ....more To contribute towards the costs of providing mobile phones, fuel and mobile phone top ups to support those who are financially most vulnerable in the community and enable them to stay connected; and to produce a free community newspaper to be delivered to

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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 26/02/2019, number: SC049082

Filing Record

3 returns made; AR20: 176 days late,

Main office

, KW14 8AA

Objectives

4 The SCIO's purposes are to benefit principally the community of Thurso and surrounding area which comprises of the Thurso Primary School catchment area defined in the postcode ranges of KW14 7A-P. KW14 7QA - L,Q,S,X. KW14 7RS, KW14 7SH-N. KW14 7SW. KW14 7UB-Y. KW14 8A-R. KW14 8TQ ('the Community') with the following objects: 4.1 The advancement of community development (including the advancement of urban regeneration) principally within the Community. But only to the extent that the above purposes are consistent with furthering the achievement of sustainable development.

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