Finance Score: 8
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 12
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • Overall weighted support: +12
    Overall GiG Score: 20 ?

    SEAWILDING

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received
    • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised

    Financial issues to consider:

    • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data
    Financial Data
    Income & Spending ?
    Period ending 30/04/21 30/04/22 30/04/23
    Charitable activities
    Donations & Legacies £451,723
    Other Income
    Investment Income £300
    Total income £103,345 £498,590 £479,908
    Charitable activities spending £359,198
    Fundraising costs 1% 1%
    Other spending
    Total spending £66,743 £236,224 £363,574
    Surplus/deficit £36,602 £262,366 £116,334
    Established: 5 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • It carries out activities or services itself
    GiG Classification
    • Land or water management
    Purposes
    • The advancement of education
    • The advancement of environmental protection or improvement
    Where it operates
    • More than one local authority area in Scotland, main operating location: City of Edinburgh
    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.

    Major supporters in last 5 years
    Esmee Fairbairn£348,618
    John Ellerman Foundation£114,000
    William Grant Foundation£72,230
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Seawilding
    £264,810 23/04/2024
    36
    Towards core costs to cover the salaries of two Seawilding employees for three years to deliver the native oyster and seagrass restoration programme
    Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Seawilding
    £5,238 20/02/2023
    Towards core costs as a Cost of Living Uplift
    William Grant Foundation - Wester Ross Native Oyster Restoration
    £72,230 03/03/2022
    To contribute to the costs of supporting community-led restoration of native oyster beds in the Wester Ross region and the creation of a native oyster nursery in Loch Broom.
    John Ellerman Foundation - Seawilding's Administrator Salary - Core Costs - £34,000 PA + employer's costs (£4000) for three years.
    £114,000 27/01/2022
    36
    Towards supporting the growth of the organisation
    Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Seawilding
    £78,570 17/06/2020
    36
    Towards core costs for community restoration of relic native oysters beds at Loch Craignish, Argyll and at other Scottish sea-lochs with the aims of habitat restoration, improving the marine ecosystem, and creating self-sustaining fisheries

    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 01/05/2020, number: SC050126
    • Notes: Charity has changed its legal name from Sea Wilding, SCIO to Seawilding. Charity was named Sea Wilding, SCIO from May 2020 to July 2022.
    Filing Record
    1 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    Achanarnirch, Craignish, Nr Lochgilphead, Argyll, PA31 8QS

    Objectives

    To advance the environmental protection and improvement of Scottish coastal waters by developing and delivering projects to restore degraded marine habitats and species, including native oysters and other priority marine features around coastal shorelines. To advance the education of marine science, marine conservation and best-practice marine habitat restoration by creating citizen science and research opportunities with schools, community groups, organisations, and academic partners. To advance the environmental protection and improvement of Scottish coastal waters by campaigning for sustainable and responsible use of marine resources.

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator
    360 Giving

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