Overall GiG Score: 6 ?
Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 5
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • Grant maker support: +5

    COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND 

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
    • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
    • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
    • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation

    Financial issues to consider:

    • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
    Established: 32 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Financial Data
    Income & Spending ?
    Period ending 31/07/17 31/07/18 31/07/19 31/07/20 31/07/21 31/07/22
    Charitable activities £111,437,000 £119,523,855 £121,424,000 £127,959,000 £155,283,000
    Donations & Legacies £59,000 £60,000 £57,000 £127,000
    Other Income £323,000 £593,000
    Investment Income £149,000 £134,000 £233,000 £85,000 £93,000
    Total income £111,859,000 £112,328,000 £120,478,855 £122,564,000 £128,460,000 £155,908,000
    Charitable activities spending £115,276,000 £128,320,000 £123,903,000 £126,710,000 £144,876,000
    Fundraising costs 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
    Other spending
    Total spending £112,946,000 £115,647,000 £128,616,000 £124,120,000 £126,834,000 £145,161,000
    Surplus/deficit -£1,087,000 -£3,319,000 -£8,137,145 -£1,556,000 £1,626,000 £10,747,000
    What it does
    • It does none of these
    Who it helps
    • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
    Purposes
    • The advancement of education
    Where it operates
    • UK and overseas, main operating location: Renfrewshire
    • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation

    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
    RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Living the best Life possible
    £60,000 26/05/2021
    The Alzheimer Scotland Centre for Policy at Practice (ASCPP), at the University of the West of Scotland, seeks to establish a 2-year institutional Seedcorn Fund to stimulate early career and ....more
    Foundation Scotland - Grant to University of the West of Scotland
    £3,500 13/11/2020
    to contribute towards the cost of running a 'celebrate culture' event.
    RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Evaluation of Dementia-Friendly Walking Football
    £12,174 28/11/2018
    To evaluate the social impact of a pilot, monthly Dementia-Friendly Walking Football programme on the lives of men living with dementia and the people who care for them. The programme will be funded ....more
    RS Macdonald Charitable Trust - Learning disability and dementia: seedcorn grant
    £15,000 25/11/2015
    This is a seedcorn grant on behalf of the Alzheimer Scotland Centre for Policy and Practice, University of the West of Scotland. This will enable the Centre to award small grants to academic ....more
    National Lottery Community Fund - Digital Common-wealth: Facilitating creative accounts of Glasgow 2014
    £167,977 19/06/2013
    18
    The university will launch a unique year and a half long project focusing on making digital media tools widely accessible. The project will work with many people from multiple walks of life using the ....more

    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 01/01/1992, number: SC002520
    Filing Record
    5 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    University Of The West of Scotland, High Street, Paisley, Renfrewshire, PA1 2BE

    Objectives

    The objects of the University are to provide education, to undertake and carry out research and to promote teaching, scholarship research and innovation

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator
    360 Giving
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