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

BALLAST TRUST

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	05/04/18	05/04/19	05/04/20	05/04/21	05/04/22	05/04/23
Total income	£93,551	£152,803	£137,496	£253,221	£192,758	£89,436
Total spending	£161,191	£206,809	£158,570	£191,175	£195,719	£146,678
Surplus/deficit	-£67,640	-£54,006	-£21,074	£62,046	-£2,961	-£57,242

Established: 37 years

http://www.ballasttrust.org.uk/

Listed activities

It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
It carries out activities or services itself

GiG Classification

Museums, parks, historical sites

Purposes

The advancement of education
The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science

Where it operates

Scotland and other parts of the UK, main operating location: Renfrewshire

Who it helps

No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

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 16/12/1987, number: SC008790

Filing Record

5 returns made; all on time

Main office

180 St Vincent Street, Glasgow, G2 5SG

Objectives

(a) the financial support of the Unit and the Centre by way of gift, grant, loan, guarantee or such other form of financial assistance as the Trustees shall consider appropriate for the advancement or benefit of the Unit and the Centre. (b) generally for the preservation and efficient organisation of business records including without prejudice to the foregoing:- (i) to assist the Unit and the Centre in locating and surveying records of historical interest and the preservation and rescue of records in danger of destruction. (ii) the selection, sorting, classification and listing of records prior to their preservation in pUblic repositories. (iii) the support of bodies active in the preservation and publication of business records such as the Business Archives Council of Scotland. the Scottish Industrial Heritage Society. the Scottish Records Association. Local Authority Archives. (c) generally for the benefit of any charitable funds, societies, organisations and schemes having objects similar to those of the Trust and also for the benefit. of The Aggregate Foundation or its successor.