Overall GiG Score: 33 ?
Finance Score: 8
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 16
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +16

LGBT YOUTH SCOTLAND 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • Spending has increased 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: 21 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 £1,020,271 £1,096,085 £906,883 £1,124,985 £1,397,792
Donations & Legacies £57,785 £125,415 £85,987 £82,606 £100,449
Other Income £168
Investment Income £203 £531 £828 £5,658 £9,858
Total income £1,143,715 £1,278,553 £1,093,624 £1,279,889 £1,446,840 £1,641,246
Charitable activities spending £1,059,818 £1,133,823 £1,081,503 £1,092,521 £1,651,084
Fundraising costs 4% 4% 5% 4% 2% 1%
Other spending
Total spending £1,102,222 £1,190,765 £1,135,603 £1,138,126 £1,320,992 £1,671,783
Surplus/deficit £41,493 £87,788 -£41,979 £141,763 £125,848 -£30,537
What it does
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Who it helps
  • Children or young people
  • Other defined groups
Purposes
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of health
  • The advancement of citizenship or community development
Where it operates
  • Operations cover all or most of 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
Henry Smith Charity£563,500
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£210,000
National Lottery Heritage Fund£203,965
BBC Children in Need£181,079
National Lottery Community Fund£136,920
William Grant Foundation£94,000
Scottish Government£78,125
Robertson Trust£54,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to LGBT Youth Scotland
£210,000 05/12/2023
towards three years‘ continuation funding of the running costs of a project providing face-to-face and digital youth work for young LGBTQ+ people across Scotland.
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - LGBTQ+ Youth Voice in Scotland
£150,000 27/11/2023
LGBT Youth Scotland is an Edinburgh-based national charity providing support to LGBTQ+ young people between the ages of 13 to 25. This grant will support them to sustain, expand, and enhance their ....more
William Grant Foundation - General operating support 2023-24
£50,000 21/09/2023
Contribution to general operating costs in the 2023/24 financial year
William Grant Foundation - General operating support 2022-23
£44,000 17/11/2022
Unrestricted funding to support this LGBTI charity to sustain services and plans in 2022/23. The grant is unrestricted but was made in response to the organisation's need for support for core ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Youth work volunteering programme
£10,000 01/11/2022
This group will use the funding to continue their Volunteer and Capacity Building Manager role. The manager will be able to continue to recruit train and support volunteers who are important to the ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to LGBT Youth Scotland
£2,500 05/10/2022
This project will provide the opportunity to develop and grow a community partnership with your local McDonald’s restaurant. This will support disadvantaged children and young people to reach ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to LGBT Youth Scotland
£203,965 01/09/2022
(Un)seen, (Un)heard
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to LGBT Youth Scotland
£120,000 17/05/2022
36
towards three years‘ running costs of an organisation providing support for young LGBTI people, impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to LGBT Youth Scotland
£118,660 03/02/2022
600 LGBTI young people from across Scotland will access youth work services and online learning opportunities on the Pride and Pixels platform. They will have reduced isolation, increased confidence ....more
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to LGBT Youth Scotland
£5,000 11/05/2021
renovation of building for a charity supporting LGBT Community in Edinburgh
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to LGBT Youth Scotland
£53,500 29/03/2021
towards one year's running costs of the 'Pride and Pixels' project providing an online community space for young LGBTI people who have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland.
LGBT Consortium - Grant to LGBT Youth Scotland
£5,000 22/01/2021
Digital youth work service and an online learning service, in response to lockdowns/coronavirus pandemic preventing face to face groups.
National Lottery Community Fund - Digital Support for LGBT Young People during COVID-19
£10,000 09/12/2020
11
This group will use the funding for their new digital platform which will support hundreds of young LGBT people across Scotland.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to LGBT Youth Scotland
£54,919 09/09/2020
18
COVID19 - This project will deliver youth work online and face to face with LGBTI young people from the Greater Glasgow area. It will also support the management of their new online platform for 500 ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£18,306 23/06/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to LGBT Youth Scotland
£5,000 17/06/2020
6
COVID19 - This grant will fund staffing costs and two mobile phones to support 70 LGBTI young people isolated by Covid and unable to attend regular youth work sessions. They will be more confident ....more
DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
£5,000 27/05/2020
NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Stepping Out D&G
£116,920 27/04/2020
36
This group will use the funding to support Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) young people with their mental health and wellbeing as well as enabling them to build personal ....more
Scottish Government - LGBT Youth Scotland
£78,125 09/04/2020
Detailed description not provided.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to LGBT Youth Scotland
£180,000 10/12/2019
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the 'Breaking Down Barriers' project providing support services to young LGBT people in Scotland
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Digital volunteering and youth work programme
£60,000 14/10/2019
24
To enhance the scope and quality of a volunteering scheme by hiring a Volunteer Manager, to grow a digital youth work offer and reach more young people in remote areas of Scotland.
Robertson Trust - LGBTI Youth Work in Scotland
£54,000 10/09/2019
LGBTI Youth Work in Scotland
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£50,000 03/09/2019
LGBT Youth Scotland
National Lottery Community Fund - LGBT National Youth Gathering 2018
£9,860 17/01/2018
12
This group will run a weekend event at Easterbrook Hall, Dumfries, as part of the Year of Young People 2018.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to LGBT Youth Scotland
£107,805 09/02/2017
36
150 LGBT+ young people will have access to a range of youth groups, individual support, influence decision makers and take part in volunteering opportunities each year. The project will increase ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to LGBT Youth Scotland
£117,500 09/06/2016
36
towards three years' salary of the Volunteering Manager at a project providing support services to young LGBTQ people in Scotland
National Lottery Community Fund - Breaking Down Barriers: an LGBTI youth inclusion project.
£380,200 19/05/2016
36
This project will support young people through the youth work intervention approach with one to one support and group work. It will help them move toward positive destinations.
BBC Children in Need - Grant to LGBT Youth Scotland
£71,990 01/04/2015
This project provides support to gay lesbian bisexual and transgender young people. By giving one to one and group support it helps them to feel happier and more included more confident and able to ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (7)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split
Based on 6/7 persons

Age Range of Directors: 33-72
  • MOONEY, Nic
    Appointed: 2021
    Occupation: Volunteering Co-Ordinator
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 27/02/2003, number: SC024047
  • Registered at Companies House on 27/02/2003, number: SC244805
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

5/1 Mitchell House, Mitchell Street, Edinburgh, EH6 7BD

Objectives

The purposes for which the Company is established (in this Memorandum referred to as 'the Objects') shall be wholly charitable. The word 'charitable' wherever it appears in this Memorandum shall have the same meaning as in section 505 of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988, including any statutory modification or re-enactment of that Act for the time being in force.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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