Finance Score: -5

Governance Score: 0

Support Score: 2

Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
No PartB

(no info on trustees)

Overall weighted support: +2

Overall GiG Score: -3

COSMOS CENTRE

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker

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	£257,394	£261,510	£259,603	£226,109	£209,355	£205,859
Total spending	£247,177	£242,118	£288,965	£205,159	£214,921	£244,328
Surplus/deficit	£10,217	£19,392	-£29,362	£20,950	-£5,566	-£38,469

Established: 53 years

www.cosmoscentre.org.uk

Listed activities

It carries out activities or services itself

GiG Classification

General Community services

Purposes

The advancement of education
The advancement of health
The advancement of citizenship or community development','the advancement of public participation in sport','the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended','the promotion of equality and diversity','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

Children or young people
People with disabilities or health problems
No specific group, or for the benefit of the community','Other charities or voluntary bodies

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
National Lottery Community Fund - Upgrade our Childcare Facility
£9,401	04/11/2021	This group will use the funding to continue their After School and holiday club provision in North East Fife. This will allow them to increase the number of children they have and can meet their ....more This group will use the funding to continue their After School and holiday club provision in North East Fife. This will allow them to increase the number of children they have and can meet their specific needs better.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees

Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

Legal constitution

Charity registered in Scotland on 04/10/1971, number: SC010828

Filing Record

5 returns made; all on time

Main office

Cosmos Community Centre, Abbey Walk, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9LB

Objectives

The objects of the Organisation shall be: (a) To promote the benefit of the inhabitants of St. Andrews and as much of the surrounding area as possible (hereinafter called 'the neighbourhood') by:- (i) giving guidance to organisation, local authorities and the community groups. (ii) associating the voluntary organisations, local authorities and the community in a common effort to advance education and to provide facilities in the interest of social welfare for recreation and leisure time occupation of the community and to act as an advisory body in the provision of such activities. (iii) making and encouraging provision to help and educate young people through their leisure time activities to develop their spiritual, mental and physical capacities to enable them to grow to full maturity as responsible individuals and members of society and that their conditions of life may be improved. (iv) fostering a community spirit for the achievement of these and such other purposes as may be law be deemed to be charitable. (b) To establish or to secure the establishment of a Community Centre (hereinafter referred to as 'the Centre') and to maintain and manage, or to co-operate with any local statutory authority or authorities in the maintenance and management of such a Centre for activities promoted by the Organisation and its constituent bodies in the furtherance of the above objects or any of them. (d) The Organisation and its constituent bodies shall have power to affiliate to National Associations and other organisations whose objects shall not be inconsistent with those set out above.

Data Sources

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