Overall GiG Score: -3 ?
Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 2
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • Grant maker support: +2

    ARCHIESTOWN VILLAGE COUNCIL 

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker

    Financial issues to consider:

    • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
    Established: 60 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Financial Data
    Income & Spending ?
    Period ending 31/08/17 31/08/18 31/08/19 31/08/20 31/08/21 31/08/22
    Total income £14,583 £17,030 £68,908 £22,182 £8,160 £12,950
    Total spending £10,749 £17,849 £24,818 £49,466 £8,484 £18,476
    Surplus/deficit £3,834 -£819 £44,090 -£27,284 -£324 -£5,526
    What it does
    • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
    • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
    Who it helps
    • Children or young people
    • Older People
    • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community','Other charities or voluntary bodies
    Purposes
    • The prevention or relief of poverty
    • 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
    • Moray

    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
    National Lottery Community Fund - Village Hall Kitchen & Toilets Upgrade
    £7,074 18/04/2019
    12
    This group will install new flooring to improve its local village hall in Archiestown, based in Moray. The flooring will complement the overall upgrade of the hall, improving the facilities and ....more
    Robertson Trust - The Kitchen and Toilets Upgrade
    £6,000 28/02/2019
    The Kitchen and Toilets Upgrade
    National Lottery Community Fund - Archiestown Village Hall Renovation Project
    £10,000 02/02/2012
    12
    The group will use the funding to upgrade the insulation in the village hall improving energy efficiency and increasing comfort.

    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 14/09/1964, number: SC001696
    Filing Record
    4 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    2 Willow Vale, South Lane, Archiestown, Moray, Moray, AB38 7QQ

    Objectives

    To promote the well being of the community resident in Archiestown and District by associating th local authorities, voluntary organisations and residents in a common effort to further health, to advance education, to provide a meeting place and facilities for physical and mental training and recreation, and social, moral and intellectual development and to foster a community spirit for the achievement of these and other such objects as may be deemed charitable by law

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator
    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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