Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 3
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • Overall weighted support: +3
    Overall GiG Score: 3 ?

    BLANTYRE COMMUNITY TRUST

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently

    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 28/02/21 28/02/22 28/02/23
    Total income £11,275 £5,500 £61,583
    Total spending £7,222 £2,305 £45,868
    Surplus/deficit £4,053 £3,195 £15,715
    Established: 5 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • It carries out activities or services itself
    GiG Classification
    • General 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 relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
    Where it operates
    • Glasgow City
    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
    Corra Foundation - Household Hardship Fund
    £5,250 17/01/2023
    A grant towards the cost of cash and vouchers to be given directly to families and individuals in need. Funded by The National Lottery Community Fund.
    National Lottery Community Fund - Re-Growth 2020
    £8,930 18/01/2021
    12
    The grant will fund delivery of community gardening and growing activities from a new community growing and remembrance garden. This will provide a therapeutic outdoor space and improve health and wellbeing opportunities for local people in Blantyre.

    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 21/02/2020, number: SC049974
    Filing Record
    2 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    The Hub, , Birch Place, , Blantyre, , Glasgow, G72 9LP

    Objectives

    2.1 To advance community development and regeneration by: 2.1.1 supporting local people to identify and articulate their needs and act to address those needs. 2.1.2 Providing, maintaining and managing facilities which can be used for recreational, heritage and cultural pursuits in order to improve the wellbeing of the community of Blantyre and visitors to the area. 2.1.3 Providing, maintaining and managing facilities which can be used by the community to assist the advancement of community development. 2.2 To advance education through the provision of training activities, materials and information through a variety of mediums through a range of project, initiatives and activities which stimulate employment, self-employment and skills amongst people resident within the community. 2.3 The prevention or relief of poverty through the provision of skills and advancing the employability prospects of residents of the community in particular those who find it difficult to obtain employment. 2.4 The provision of recreational and leisure activities through the promotion and organisation of community activities and encouraging the use and development for the benefit of the residents of the community and the wider public.

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator
    360 Giving

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