Finance Score: -7
Governance Score: -3
Support Score: 0
  • Accounts overdue -5
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
  • Return overdue: -3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: -10 ?

ALEXANDER COOPER OF FAILFORD TRUST 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Latest return is overdue

Financial issues to consider:

  • Latest accounts are overdue for filing
  • Income was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
Financial Data
Period ending 05/04/16
Total income £4,610
Total spending £6,041
Surplus/deficit -£1,431
Established: 135 years
Scottish Charity Regulator
Listed activities
  • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
GiG Classification
  • Philanthropic intermediaries and voluntarism promotion
Purposes
  • The prevention or relief of poverty
  • The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Where it operates
  • More than one local authority area in Scotland, main operating location: East Ayrshire
Who it helps
  • Older People

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 23/10/1889, number: SC002794
Filing Record
1 returns made; AR16: 23 days late,
Main office

, KA7 1XD

Objectives

I hereby DIRECT and APPOINT that the residue or remainder of my said Estate Effects and Rents above conveyed, after the preceding purposes are fulfilled, shall be applied by my said Trustees in founding, erecting and establishing a House for the benefit of deserving old people belonging to the Parishes of Tarbolton and Mauchline above forty years of age who may be reduced in their circumstances and unable to support themselves.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
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