Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 0
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Static board: -3
  • Mainly male board: -1
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: -4 ?

THE COVE AND KILCREGGAN TRUST 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years, despite a decline more recently
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly male
  • The Board composition appears to be rather static

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/05/17 31/05/18 31/05/19 31/05/20 31/05/21 31/05/22 31/05/23
Total income £10,205 £2,557 £7,843 £2,728 £18,468 £3,023 £3,635
Total spending £2,314 £2,921 £3,856 £6,825 £4,992 £6,209 £5,837
Surplus/deficit £7,891 -£364 £3,987 -£4,097 £13,476 -£3,186 -£2,202
Established: 74 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
Listed activities
  • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • Community services
Purposes
  • 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 relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Where it operates
  • West Dunbartonshire
Who it helps
  • Older People
  • People with disabilities or health problems
  • 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?

Directors (8)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 49-95
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 04/07/1950, number: SC011098
  • Registered at Companies House on 15/05/2012, number: SC424071
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

, G84 0HW

Objectives

(One) To promote all or any of the purposes for the benefit of the inhabitants of Cove and Kilcreggan which now or hereafter may be deemed by law to be charitable and in particular the welfare of the indigent aged, the furtherance of health and the relief of poverty, distress and sickness. (Two) To promote and organise co-operation in the achievement of the above purposes and to that end to bring together locally in Cove and Kilcreggan representatives of voluntary agencies and statutory authorities engaged in the furtherance of the above purposes or any of them, and (Three) In furtherance of the objects and purposes hereinbefore defined, but not further or otherwise, to assist either financially or in any other way any scheme, purpose, society or other body in the furtherance of the above purposes or any of them.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
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