Finance Score: 8

Governance Score: 9

Support Score: 13

Fundraising costs low: +3
Future income +5
No PartB

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3
Gender balanced board: +3

Grant maker support: +13

Overall GiG Score: 30

HOT CHOCOLATE TRUST

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 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: 20 years

www.hotchocolate.org.uk

Financial Data

Income & Spending ?

Period ending	31/12/17	31/12/18	31/12/19	31/12/20	31/12/21	31/12/22
Charitable activities		£11,805	£9,004	£4,785	£13,310	£11,495
Donations & Legacies		£532,367	£562,472	£641,594	£663,382
Other Income
Investment Income		£918	£1,232	£209		£5,080
Total income	£426,208	£545,303	£572,733	£646,616	£676,692	£647,638
Charitable activities spending		£510,431	£535,372	£528,101	£529,466	£614,244
Fundraising costs		4%	4%	4%	4%	5%
Other spending
Total spending	£395,823	£532,849	£558,489	£554,332	£558,949	£645,627
Surplus/deficit	£30,385	£12,454	£14,244	£92,284	£117,743	£2,011

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Listed activities

It carries out activities or services itself

Purposes

The advancement of education
The advancement of citizenship or community development
The provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended

Where it operates

More than one local authority area in Scotland, main operating location: Dundee City

Who it helps

Children or young people
Other defined groups

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	£178,700
Paul Hamlyn Foundation	£96,000
Scottish Government	£63,644
Foundation Scotland	£45,000
Garfield Weston Foundation	£40,000
Robertson Trust	£37,000
BBC Children in Need	£10,500

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Hot Chocolate Trust
£178,700	18/08/2023 36	towards three years' salary and on costs of a Senior Youth Worker at a project providing support for young people from disadvantaged communities in Dundee, Scotland.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Hot Chocolate Trust
£20,000	21/02/2023	Donation from Make Fund
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Growing impact: Youth voice, specialist youth work, and sharing learning
£6,000	18/01/2023	Hot Chocolate Trust is a large youth centre in central Dundee. They offer open access drop-in sessions, tailored one-to-one and group support, and programmes focused around the arts and youth ....more Hot Chocolate Trust is a large youth centre in central Dundee. They offer open access drop-in sessions, tailored one-to-one and group support, and programmes focused around the arts and youth leadership. This grant supports Hot Chocolate Trust to increase the breadth and depth of their mental health, homelessness and creative arts offers. They also aim to influence the wider youth sector through the development and promotion of their outcomes database.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Hot Chocolate Trust
£10,000	21/09/2022	Donation from Make Fund
Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
£25,000	18/02/2022	Homefulness
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Hot Chocolate Trust
£10,500	31/01/2022	Regular open access drop-in sessions and detached youth work for vulnerable young people in Dundee City centre. Through a range of activities and support young people will improve social skills and ....more Regular open access drop-in sessions and detached youth work for vulnerable young people in Dundee City centre. Through a range of activities and support young people will improve social skills and increase feeling of self-worth.
Foundation Scotland - Grant to Hot Chocolate Trust
£15,000	12/12/2021	Ongoing costs, not capital projects. From The Make Trust
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Growing impact: Youth voice, specialist youth work, and sharing learning
£90,000	04/10/2021 36	Hot Chocolate Trust is a large youth centre in central Dundee. They offer open access drop-in sessions, tailored one-to-one and group support, and programmes focused around the arts and youth ....more Hot Chocolate Trust is a large youth centre in central Dundee. They offer open access drop-in sessions, tailored one-to-one and group support, and programmes focused around the arts and youth leadership. This grant supports Hot Chocolate Trust to increase the breadth and depth of their mental health, homelessness and creative arts offers. They also aim to influence the wider youth sector through the development and promotion of their outcomes database.
Scottish Government - Hot Chocolate Trust
£39,000	07/04/2021	Detailed description not provided.
Tudor Trust - Grant to Hot Chocolate Trust
£2,000	04/01/2021	as an additional grant to support staff, volunteer and trustee wellbeing, to assist the organisation deliver its charitable purpose more effectively
Scottish Government - Hot Chocolate Trust
£24,644	25/11/2020	Detailed description not provided.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£15,000	29/11/2019	Hot Chocolate Trust - Revenue funding
Robertson Trust - the organisation's running costs
£37,000	23/08/2019	the organisation's running costs
Corra Foundation - HDG-19/497
£6,000	01/06/2019	Towards the salary of the 30hr/wk Administrator/Book-keeper
Tudor Trust - Grant to Hot Chocolate Trust
£90,000	19/10/2017 36	over three years as continuation funding towards the salary and associated costs of a senior youth worker at a youth project in Dundee
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Hot Chocolate Trust
£117,842	17/10/2017 36	This project runs open drop-in and group sessions, trips and individual support for vulnerable young people living in a disadvantaged area. They will be more confident, understand their feelings, ....more This project runs open drop-in and group sessions, trips and individual support for vulnerable young people living in a disadvantaged area. They will be more confident, understand their feelings, make better choices and have positive goals.
Comic Relief - Young Activists
£135,357	27/09/2017 36	Hot Chocolate is a youth project based in the centre of Dundee that works with around 300 young people aged 12-21 each year. Over 80% of the young people have been involved in the criminal justice ....more Hot Chocolate is a youth project based in the centre of Dundee that works with around 300 young people aged 12-21 each year. Over 80% of the young people have been involved in the criminal justice system, 34% have experienced domestic violence, over 60% identify as LGBTQ, and 42% have attempted suicide. The grant will fund a youth worker and project costs to empower around 120 young people to convert their ideas for positive change into action, locally and nationally. The young people themselves will jointly design, implement and manage the Young Activists project, growing in self-worth, hope & skills & agency in the world and increasing their belief that they can bring about positive change.
Corra Foundation - HDA-17/319
£5,000	03/08/2017	towards the salary of the Finance and Admin Officer
Robertson Trust - the organisation's running costs
£55,500	30/06/2016	the organisation's running costs
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Hot Chocolate Trust
£90,000	10/03/2016 36	towards three years' salary of the Director at a project providing support, activities and opportunities to young people in Dundee
Tudor Trust - Grant to Hot Chocolate Trust
£75,000	01/09/2014 36	over three years towards the salary of the senior youth worker at a youth organisation in Dundee
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Hot Chocolate Trust
£102,561	01/07/2014	This project will fund open drop-in sessions for vulnerable young people in a disadvantaged area. This will be supported by more intensive one-to-one and group work sessions with residential ....more This project will fund open drop-in sessions for vulnerable young people in a disadvantaged area. This will be supported by more intensive one-to-one and group work sessions with residential opportunities to increase confidence resilience and wellbeing
National Lottery Community Fund - Hot Chocolate Trust (City Centre 12-21 Project)
£10,000	30/11/2012 12	The trust will use the grant to deliver holiday programmes, residential sessions and group work sessions to engage with disengaged young people aged 12-21 years old in the Dundee area.

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How is it governed?

Directors (9)

Current Directors appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 42-80

BOWSER, Piers Howard Clarkson
Appointed: 2018
Occupation: Retired

GIBSON, Sheena
Appointed: 2022
Occupation: Certified Accountant

HARPER, Alan Andrew
Appointed: 2020
Occupation: Retired Accountant

JOHNSTONE, Deborah
Appointed: 2023
Occupation: Community Worker

MCLEAN, Michaela Robertson
Appointed: 2023
Occupation: Hr Consultant

MELLSTROM, Pamela Wright
Appointed: 2017
Occupation: Youth Work

MURDOCH, Ruth Kathleen Elizabeth, Dr
Appointed: 2020
Occupation: Hospital Doctor

OSFIELD, David Gareth
Appointed: 2022
Occupation: Fund Manager

STRACHAN, Fiona Mary
Appointed: 2023
Occupation: Chartered Accountant - Retired

Legal constitution

Charity registered in Scotland on 15/06/2004, number: SC035714
Registered at Companies House on 01/09/2010, number: SC384635

Filing Record

5 returns made; all on time

Main office

The Steeple Complex, Nethergate, Dundee, DD1 4DG

Objectives

(a) the advancement and promotion of the education, welfare and holistic development of young people, including the provision of recreational facilities and the provision of locations which are open, responsive and safe to facilitate young people growing to full maturity as individuals, positive change makers, community builders and mature citizens, such advancement and promotion being from a Christian perspective. and (b) the advancement of education primarily but not exclusively in the City of Dundee through relationships built on trust and respect, which are organic and reciprocal, promoting the emotional, mental, spiritual and physical well-being of those suffering from the consequences of deprivation, poverty, social exclusion, poor health, abuse or unemployment in order to advance the development of community.

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