Finance Score: -6
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 0
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • No supporters identified
    Overall GiG Score: -6 ?

    THE JAMES GIBB STUART TRUST

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Financial issues to consider:

    • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
    • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
    Financial Data
    Income & Spending ?
    Period ending 30/04/17 30/04/18 30/04/19 30/04/20 30/04/21 30/04/22 30/04/23
    Total income £122,540 £3,037 £2,003 £2,502 £2,903 £3,005 £20
    Total spending £124,573 £13,150 £2,786 £2,343 £1,932 £1,591 £1,087
    Surplus/deficit -£2,033 -£10,113 -£783 £159 £971 £1,414 -£1,067
    Established: 16 years
    Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
    • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
    • It carries out activities or services itself
    GiG Classification
    • Legal & financial advice
    Purposes
    • The prevention or relief of poverty
    • The advancement of education
    • The advancement of citizenship or community development
    Where it operates
    • Scotland and other parts of the UK, main operating location: Glasgow City
    Who it helps
    • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

    Who supports them? ?

    We have no records of donations from grant makers.

    How is it governed?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in Scotland on 21/04/2008, number: SC039525
    • Registered at Companies House on 14/04/2008, number: SC341272
    Filing Record
    4 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    c/o Alistair McConnachie, The James Gibb Stuart Trust, c/o Wylie and Bisset, 168 Bath Street, Glasgow, G2 4TP

    Objectives

    (a) to advance the education of the public and interested parties in monetary and economic theory and practice, to promote plurality in its teaching, and in particular but not so as to limit the generality of the foregoing: to research the present monetary and economic systems, including the root causes and effects of poverty and the indebtedness of individuals, families, regions and countries, and the effect of these systems upon society with regard to economic disempowerment, exclusion, deprivation and environmental impact. to publish the results of such research and to propose suitable remedies. (b) to promote measures to alleviate poverty and indebtedness at individual, community, regional, national and international levels, and to advance economic inclusion and sustainable environmental development. and (c) to establish and operate other suitable projects of a similar charitable nature, and to do such other things as may be conducive to the attainment of the aforesaid objects.

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator

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