Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 0
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • No supporters identified
    Overall GiG Score: -5 ?

    WCH TRUST FOR CHILDREN 

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Financial issues to consider:

    • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
    Financial Data
    Income & Spending ?
    Period ending 31/03/18 31/03/19 31/03/20 31/03/21 31/03/22 31/03/23
    Total income £55,385 £50,542 £52,531 £37,982 £41,746 £41,326
    Total spending £88,762 £88,900 £82,725 £71,562 £101,321 £96,969
    Surplus/deficit -£33,377 -£38,358 -£30,194 -£33,580 -£59,575 -£55,643
    Established: 110 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
    • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
    GiG Classification
    • Financial or material assistance
    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: City of Edinburgh
    Who it helps
    • Children or young people
    • People with disabilities or health problems
    • Other defined groups','Other charities or voluntary bodies

    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 16/07/1914, number: SC003724
    • Notes: This SCIO was incorporated on 24th August 2016 as a result of a Change to SCIO application by Widowers Childrens Home Trust (SC003724), which was a Trust registered as a charity since 16th July 1914.
    Filing Record
    5 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    , EH3 6AD

    Objectives

    The Charitable Purposes of the SCIO ('the Charitable Purposes') are: 3.1.1 to provide financial assistance and other benefits, from time to time, to former residents and/or former employees of the former Widowers' Children's Home, Edinburgh who are in need by way of ill health, financial hardship or other disadvantage. 3.1.2 to provide financial assistance to charities registered in Scotland, in particular those that are concerned with the care and welfare of children. and 3.1.3 to provide relief by way of grants or other means to individual children and young adults up to the age of 25 or the families of such individuals for the purpose of education, training, treatment for mental or physical disabilities or ill health, the provision of equipment for the benefit of such individuals and the provision of holidays and the like.

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator
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