Overall GiG Score: -9 ?
Finance Score: -10
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 1
  • Accounts overdue -5
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • Grant maker support: +1

    LOUGHGIEL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION LTD 

    To relieve poverty, sickness and the aged and to promote the benefit of the inhabitants of the Parishes of Loughgiel, Co Antrim and environs without distinction of age, sex, race, political, religious or other opinion, by association the statutory authorities, voluntary organisations and inhabitants in a common effort to advance education, and to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation of other leisure time occupation, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the said inhabitants. To establish or to secure the establishment of a community centre and to maintain and manage or to cooperate with any local statutory authority in the maintenance and management of such a centre for activities promoted by the Association.
    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from a grant maker

    Financial issues to consider:

    • Latest accounts are overdue for filing
    • There has been a change of accounting period recently, so trends may be hard to determine
    • Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
    Established: 9 years

    www.loughgiel.co.uk

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    Charity Commission for Northern Ireland
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Financial Data
    Income & Spending ?
    Year end 31/03/18 31/03/19 31/03/23
    Income £685,016 £437,757 £560,344
    Spending £447,392 £452,223 £718,756
    Surplus/deficit £237,624 -£14,466 -£158,412
    What it does
    • The prevention or relief of poverty, The advancement of education, The relief of those in need by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
    Who works here?
    • 25 employees
    Who it helps
    • Adult training, General public, Older people, Voluntary and community sector, Volunteers, Youth (14-25 year olds)
    How it operates
    • Advice/advocacy/information, Community development, Community enterprise, Education/training, Environment/sustainable development/conservation, General charitable purposes, Rural development, Volunteer development, Youth development
    Where it operates
    • Northern Ireland

    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.

    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Loughgiel Community Association
    £5,000 04/05/2018
    purchase of a van for a charity which works with older people in Antrim

    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Further information may be available on the charity's page on the Commission website here
    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in Northern Ireland on 01/10/2015, number: NIC103422
    Main office

    Loughgiel Community Association, 38 Lough Road, Loughgiel, Ballymena, BT44 9JN

    Data Sources

    Charity Commission for Northern Ireland
    360 Giving
    Authorised officials of this charity can add information to this page (including a Donate Now button) for no cost

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