Finance Score: -8
Governance Score: -3
Support Score: 0
  • Accounts overdue -5
  • Volatile income: -3
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
  • Return overdue: -3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: -11 ?

COWAL HOSPICE TRUST

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker recently

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Latest return is overdue

Financial issues to consider:

  • Latest accounts are overdue for filing
  • Income has been volatile recently
Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/03/18 31/03/19 31/03/20 31/03/21
Total income £107,905 £85,671 £375,073 £67,257
Total spending £100,229 £107,798 £94,695 £57,747
Surplus/deficit £7,676 -£22,127 £280,378 £9,510
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • Hospice & bereavement services
Purposes
  • The advancement of health
Where it operates
  • Argyll And Bute
Who it helps
  • People with disabilities or health problems

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Scottish Government - Cowal Hospice Trust
£2,000 27/05/2020
Detailed description not provided.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees

Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 12/02/1993, number: SC021169
Filing Record
4 returns made; all on time
Main office

80 Argyll Street, Dunoon, Argyll, PA23 7NE

Objectives

The Trustees shall from time to time hold, pay or apply or allocate the whole free income of the trust estate and shall from time to time pay or apply the whole capital of the trust estate in accordance with the following:- The establishment of a Hospice for the care and support of the terminally ill with ancillary support for their relatives and those caring for them all without regard to the nature of the terminal illness (hereinafter referred to as 'the primary trust purpose'). That without prejudice to the foregoing generality the Trustees shall endeavour to build and maintain and thereafter administer, through fundraising, grants and charitable donations, a Hospice for the care of the terminally ill and the support of their relative and carers all as specified in the primary trust purpose.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving

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