Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 3
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +3
Overall GiG Score: 12 ?

QUEENSFERRY CHURCHES CARE IN THE COMMUNITY 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several 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
Established: 31 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 £2,366
Donations & Legacies £249,285 £220,604 £249,370 £281,810 £275,242
Other Income £2,820 £9,422 £4,621 £3,594 £5,887
Investment Income £851 £838 £1,086 £1,070 £1,060 £1,659
Total income £327,790 £279,554 £313,379 £300,202 £301,371 £320,240
Charitable activities spending £266,472 £261,436 £276,268 £241,250 £264,579 £292,947
Fundraising costs 9% 1% 1% 2% 7% 6%
Other spending £7,943 £9,767 £8,901 £11,356
Total spending £296,867 £272,455 £279,405 £258,180 £293,163 £322,948
Surplus/deficit £30,923 £7,099 £33,974 £42,022 £8,208 -£2,708
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','Other defined groups
Purposes
  • The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Where it operates
  • Wider, but within one local authority area, 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£6,800
Garfield Weston Foundation£5,000
Foundation Scotland£1,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Queensferry Churches' Care in the Community
£1,000 10/04/2020
To allow Queensferry Churches Care in the Community to continue to provide support to vulnerable adults in Rural North West Edinburgh by providing phone support, delivery of essentials and enabling ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£5,000 22/11/2019
Saving the Haven
National Lottery Community Fund - Feel the wind in your hair
£6,800 08/10/2019
2
This project will purchase a trishaw to take older people out on cycling trips, using volunteer 'pilots'. The project is affiliated with the Cycling without Age movement.
Robertson Trust - The capital costs of Ferrymuir Daycare and Residential Respite Centre
£155,000 12/03/2019
The capital costs of Ferrymuir Daycare and Residential Respite Centre
Corra Foundation - HDA-18/419
£5,000 04/10/2018
Towards the cost of transport for the day care service.
National Lottery Community Fund - Volunteers are us
£3,200 14/09/2018
12
This group will use the funding to extend and enhance volunteering opportunities in rural North West Edinburgh by recruiting more befrienders, gardeners and drivers to help support older people. They ....more
Robertson Trust - Running Costs
£10,000 27/08/2018
Running Costs
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£7,500 05/05/2017
Day Care Services
Corra Foundation - HDA-17/142
£5,000 30/03/2017
towards the costs of transport
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (12)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split
Based on 10/12 persons

Age Range of Directors: 41-77
  • BURTON, Andrew
    Appointed: 2016
    Occupation: Housekeeping And Facilities Manager - Soft Service
  • LAING, Ian
    Appointed: 2014
    Occupation: Retired Bank Official
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 07/09/1993, number: SC021833
  • Registered at Companies House on 07/09/2000, number: SC210822
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

QCCC, EH30 9JA

Objectives

The charitable purpose(s) and company’s objects are to: a) provide high quality care and support as caring individuals within their communities and as an expression of our founding values and Christian heritage, being ‘kind and compassionate to one another’. b) deliver quality support services to older people and carers within the local communities of South Queensferry and the surrounding areas, with a focus on, but not restricted to, North West Rural Edinburgh, enabling our Clients and their Carers to maintain an independent lifestyle within their community. c) protect, sustain and, where possible, improve the mental health of those with whom we have contact. d) ‘provide relief to those in need by reason of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship and/or other disadvantage.’ and, e) deliver social enterprise services to: i. meet the needs of the those in the local communities we serve. and, ii. help fund and sustain our care and support services.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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