Overall GiG Score: 17 ?
Finance Score: 4
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 4
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +4

PENUMBRA 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition
Established: 39 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/03/18 31/03/19 31/03/20 31/03/21 31/03/22 31/03/23
Charitable activities £10,275,257 £10,216,903 £10,621,107 £11,534,273 £15,835,956
Donations & Legacies £199,903 £201,671 £176,892 £186,271
Other Income £12,085 £59,536
Investment Income £13,371 £19,672 £49,530 £33,247 £19,965
Total income £10,488,531 £10,450,331 £10,847,529 £11,753,791 £12,928,038 £16,054,783
Charitable activities spending £10,084,043 £9,994,450 £10,967,059 £11,065,749 £15,722,974
Fundraising costs 0% 0% 1% 1% 1% 1%
Other spending
Total spending £10,115,590 £10,026,599 £11,034,837 £11,138,930 £12,768,644 £15,814,198
Surplus/deficit £372,941 £423,732 -£187,308 £614,861 £159,394 £240,585
What it does
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Who it helps
  • Children or young people
  • Older People
  • People with disabilities or health problems','No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
Purposes
  • The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
  • Any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes
Where it operates
  • More than one local authority area in Scotland, main operating location: City of Edinburgh

Who's supporting 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
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Penumbra
£500 19/02/2020
To develop the outdoor space for our residents.
National Lottery Community Fund - Self-harm support and understanding
£119,557 11/11/2019
35
This group will use the funding to continue their Self Harm Project across Fife. The programme provides emotional and practical support to people over 18 aged who self harm and the project will help ....more
Robertson Trust - Towards the running costs of Fife Self Harm Project
£33,000 29/03/2018
Towards the running costs of Fife Self Harm Project
Robertson Trust - the Fife Self Harm Project
£49,500 31/01/2015
the Fife Self Harm Project

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (8)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 35-68
  • BRIGGS, Colin
    Appointed: 2017
    Occupation: Director Of Strategic Planning
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 07/02/1985, number: SC010387
  • Registered at Companies House on 07/02/1985, number: SC091542
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

Norton Park, 57 Albion Road, Edinburgh, EH7 5QY

Objectives

The company is established for charitable objects and purposes only. In particular its objects are: (a) To provide facilities and support for the care and aftercare of persons suffering from mental illness. (b) to promote resettlement and rehabilitation facilities for those disabled by mental illness. (c) to employ professional advisers or workers to promote the object the company and to pay reasonable and proper remuneration for such services. (d) to act as trustees or agents for or to manage money grants or other assistance received from statutory bodies, trusts or other bodies, and to affiliate with any other association, society or body established for charitable purposes only and having, primary object wholly or partly similar to those of the Company and for the purpose of promoting the primary object of the Company to co-operate with the press and other sources of publicity. (e) to purchase, take on lease or in exchange, hire or otherwise acquire and to hold, sell, feu, lease or otherwise dispose of any heritable or moveable property and any rights or, privileges which may be necessary or convenient for the promotion of the objects of the Company and to construct, maintain and alter any buildings or erections necessary or convenient for the work of the company and in particular so to acquire, hold and dispose of furniture, furnishings fixtures and other effects necessary or convenient for the objects of the Company.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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