Overall GiG Score: 12 ?
Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 5
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +5

GREENOCK ARTS GUILD LTD 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition
  • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Established: 76 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/03/18 31/03/19 31/03/20 31/03/21 31/03/22 31/03/23
Charitable activities £667,021 £689,073 £661,897 £96,575 £835,209
Donations & Legacies £511,683 £539,315 £489,346 £538,938 £934,104
Other Income £215,685 £75,000
Investment Income £1 £4 £3 £3 £596
Total income £1,545,121 £1,642,221 £1,351,867 £851,533 £1,472,309 £1,935,975
Charitable activities spending £1,566,591 £1,493,297 £1,371,528 £914,569 £1,806,449
Fundraising costs 21% 23% 11% 2% 2% 3%
Other spending £3,897,770 £8,403 £7,475 £6,873 £4,092
Total spending £5,790,332 £1,874,846 £1,523,107 £934,929 £1,569,793 £1,860,967
Surplus/deficit -£4,245,211 -£232,625 -£171,240 -£83,396 -£97,484 £75,008
What it does
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Who it helps
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
Purposes
  • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
Where it operates
  • More than one local authority area in Scotland, main operating location: Inverclyde
  • This charity is based in an area of extremely 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
The Foyle Foundation - Arts
£31,000 11/07/2022
towards the Community Outreach Programme over the next 12 months
Garfield Weston Foundation - WCF award - COVID19 response
£170,000 05/02/2021
Weston Culture Fund
Robertson Trust - Beacon Learning and Outreach Team
£45,000 30/04/2016
Beacon Learning and Outreach Team
Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation - Grant to Greenock Arts Guild Ltd
£100,000 04/07/2011
Development of the Youth Theatre in the Beacon Arts Centre
National Lottery Community Fund - Waterfront Community Arts Centre
£428,716 21/04/2010
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Funded through Growing Community Assets this project will build a community café, studio theatre and conference suite as part of a new arts centre in the Riverside Inverclyde development. More ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (9)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split
Based on 8/9 persons

Age Range of Directors: 38-63
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 15/05/1948, number: SC003030
  • Registered at Companies House on 04/12/1946, number: SC024805
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

Beacon Arts Centre, Custom House Quay, Greenock, Scotland, PA15 1HJ

Objectives

3.1.1 to advance, promote, maintain and improve education, participation and enjoyment of the arts, including, without limitation, the arts of drama, mime, dance, singing, music, film, paintings and sculpture.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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