Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 9
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 21 ?

VENTURE SCOTLAND 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • Fundraising costs are 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: 35 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 £129
Donations & Legacies £655,560 £671,409 £391,160 £371,553 £616,017
Other Income £125,891 £34,975
Investment Income £23 £41 £278 £35
Total income £655,712 £698,440 £393,849 £506,279 £656,078 £653,692
Charitable activities spending £590,254 £646,977 £392,778 £349,784 £602,475
Fundraising costs 9% 8% 6% 5% 4% 6%
Other spending
Total spending £646,912 £704,407 £417,104 £370,255 £499,521 £638,229
Surplus/deficit £8,800 -£5,967 -£23,255 £136,024 £156,557 £15,463
Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Purposes
  • The advancement of education
Where it operates
  • One or a few bases or facilities serving people who come from a broad area, main operating location: City of Edinburgh
Who it helps
  • Children or young people
  • People with disabilities or health problems

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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Scottish Government£123,534
National Lottery Community Fund£100,500
Garfield Weston Foundation£20,000
Foundation Scotland£17,480
The Clothworkers Foundation£15,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Venture Scotland
£15,000 30/11/2021
To contribute towards costs for their ?Leadership? programme, including an outdoor programme leader, volunteer coordinator, and overheads, to support young people reach their potential.
National Lottery Community Fund - Volunteer Co-ordinator – diversifying VS's volunteer community
£100,500 16/11/2021
The group will use the funding to cover the costs of a full-time Volunteer Coordinator who will support Venture Scotland’s volunteer base and the development of their young ambassador’s ....more
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Venture Scotland
£500 19/09/2021
Donation from The Lochnagar Trust
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Venture Scotland
£15,000 13/04/2021
purchase minibus for a charity supporting vulnerable young people with mental health issues in Edingurgh
Scottish Government - Venture Scotland
£34,771 10/03/2021
Detailed description not provided.
Scottish Government - Venture Scotland
£22,970 18/02/2021
Detailed description not provided.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 04/12/2020
Changing Young Lives Outdoors – Glasgow
Scottish Government - Venture Scotland
£12,854 16/06/2020
Detailed description not provided.
Scottish Government - Venture Scotland
£52,939 16/04/2020
Detailed description not provided.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Venture Scotland
£1,980 14/04/2020
To assist with delivery of 100 refurbished computers to isolated families and individuals across Edinburgh and the Lothians who currently have limited or no computer facility at home and who may then ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£12,338 18/12/2018
The Big Give 2018
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to Venture Scotland
£10,000 23/01/2018
£10,000 towards the Pathfinder project, a partnership programme with Police Scotland for 40 young people. Venture Scotland seeks to provide disadvantaged young people develop their skills and ....more
Dulverton Trust - 24 young people to achieve an SCQF Qualification - Big Give Christmas Challenge 2017
£5,000 14/06/2017
24 young people to achieve an SCQF Qualification - Big Give Christmas Challenge 2017
Robertson Trust - Towards the salary costs of the Journey Glasgow Outdoor Worker
£39,000 21/03/2017
Towards the salary costs of the Journey Glasgow Outdoor Worker
Dulverton Trust - Expansion of The Journey
£105,000 25/10/2016
Expansion of The Journey
National Lottery Community Fund - Journey to Change - Taking 'The Journey' in Edinburgh to the next leve
£388,745 22/06/2016
36
This project will support vulnerable young people in Edinburgh aged 16-25 years old at a key transition point in their lives such as leaving care or when they have reached a tipping point in their ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Journey to Recovery
£537,900 11/03/2015
36
Not Available
Dulverton Trust - ?The Journey?
£25,000 11/06/2014
?The Journey?
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Venture Scotland
£188,214 13/02/2014
Towards two salaries supporting a programme increasing the life chances of disadvantaged young people aged 16-30 in Scotland to enhance positive outcomes and increase beneficiary numbers.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Venture Scotland
£90,000 14/03/2013
36
towards three years' running costs of the 'Journey Programme', an outdoor personal development programme for disadvantaged young people in Edinburgh
Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Venture Scotland
£120,000 30/09/2009
36
Towards Core costs Towards the salary of a development worker and a contribution to management, evaluation and other project costs.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (8)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 30-65
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 12/04/1989, number: SC013901
  • Registered at Companies House on 01/03/2001, number: SC216291
Filing Record
4 returns made; all on time
Main office

Offices 1 & 2, 4 Norton Park, Edinburgh, EH7 5RS

Objectives

The Company has been formed to benefit the community of people resident in Scotland (the 'Community'), with the following purposes (the 'Purposes'): 4.1 To advance the education of young people (and, in the circumstances envisaged by subsection 4.2 below, any other people) by the participation in outdoor events and activities and conservation work and activities thereby assisting in their personal development. 4.2 To engage with programmes and initiatives with other organisations where the beneficiaries of such programmes/initiatives include older people, provided that in such cases the beneficiaries also include a minimum proportion of young people determined by the Board of Directors on a case by case basis. and 4.3 to advance the provision of educational opportunities in the Community, increasing awareness of the environment, culture, heritage and/or history.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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