Finance Score: -1

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 0

Volatile income
spending growth: -1
No PartB

(no info on trustees)

No supporters identified

Overall GiG Score: -1

WEMYSS CHARITABLE TRUST

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years

Financial issues to consider:

Income has been volatile recently but spending has been maintained

Financial Data

Income & Spending ?

Period ending	31/05/17	31/05/18	31/05/19	31/05/20	31/05/21	31/05/22	31/05/23
Total income	£14,207	£14,040	£10,330	£440,542	£32,326	£24,830	£22,125
Total spending	£12,449	£9,587	£19,454	£10,803	£22,925	£5,007	£15,500
Surplus/deficit	£1,758	£4,453	-£9,124	£429,739	£9,401	£19,823	£6,625

Established: 101 years

Listed activities

It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals

GiG Classification

Poverty relief

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

Fife

Who it helps

Other defined groups

Who's supporting 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 21/07/1923, number: SC005789

Filing Record

5 returns made; all on time

Main office

Torrie House, Newmills, Dunfermline, KY12 8HH

Objectives

Declaration of Trust were particularly empowered to acquire suitable houses for the occupation of widows and other dependants or men who lost their lives in the war of nineteen hundred and fourteen to nineteen hundred and eighteen.

Data Sources

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