Overall GiG Score: 12 ?
Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 5
Support Score: 6
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Mainly female board: -1
  • Grant maker support: +6

SCOTTISH YOUTH DANCE 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition
  • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly female

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
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 £478,485 £453,627 £400,842 £408,320 £439,632
Donations & Legacies £34,723 £30,780 £40,798 £31,316
Other Income £240 £1,589 £1,053 £31,407
Investment Income £511 £295 £658 £440 £1,624
Total income £515,860 £487,574 £444,490 £472,206 £611,875 £509,993
Charitable activities spending £502,257 £588,200 £550,775 £451,987 £638,310
Fundraising costs 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Other spending £10,142
Total spending £503,289 £588,454 £551,994 £452,968 £531,596 £650,412
Surplus/deficit £12,571 -£100,880 -£107,504 £19,238 £80,279 -£140,419
What it does
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Who it helps
  • Children or young people
Purposes
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
Where it operates
  • Operations cover all or most of Scotland, main operating location: Glasgow City
  • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation

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
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 12/11/2021
Step It Up
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Step It Up - dance pedagogy project
£150,000 08/03/2021
YDance is the National Dance Organisation for Children and Young People in Scotland. This grant supports the delivery of Step It Up, a project that aims to develop teachers’ confidence, skills and ....more
Robertson Trust - The New Horizons Project
£30,000 25/02/2019
The New Horizons Project
AB Charitable Trust - A grant to YDance (Scottish Youth Dance)
£5,000 31/10/2017
£5,000 towards the Take the Lead dance project at HMYOI Polmont. This project aims to work with 60 young men and women (aged 16-21) at HMYOI Polmont using dance and attainment of qualifications to ....more
Spirit of 2012 - Momentum
£24,980 23/10/2017
Project to setup up six dnace groups in two deprived areas to increase activity and improve health and wellbeing for inactive young women and girls. Final amount of grant dispersed may differ due to ....more
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Shake It Up - Learning Through Dance
£298,000 18/07/2016
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YDance aims to increase engagement with learning, attainment and wellbeing of over 2000 of Scotland's poorest children from 12 primary schools in 4 areas of deprivation over a period of four years. ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (6)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 26-68
  • MITCHELL, Sue
    Appointed: 2011
    Occupation: Community Development Worker
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 20/01/1989, number: SC013949
  • Registered at Companies House on 28/12/1988, number: SC115368
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

Unit 103, South Block, 60-64 Osborne Streer, Glasgow, G1 5QH

Objectives

The advancement of public education by the promotion and development of the Arts and in particular the Arts of dance, music and mime in all their forms.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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