Finance Score: -1
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 0
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • No supporters identified
    Overall GiG Score: -1 ?

    CHURCH SERVICE SOCIETY 

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period

    Financial issues to consider:

    • On several occasions in recent years income has been 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 £2,799 £2,531 £3,015 £1,380 £1,336 £7,273
    Total spending £3,277 £2,926 £5,070 £1,798 £2,942 £6,788
    Surplus/deficit -£478 -£395 -£2,055 -£418 -£1,606 £485
    Established: 55 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • It carries out activities or services itself
    GiG Classification
    • Christian congregations
    Purposes
    • The advancement of education
    • The advancement of religion
    • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
    Where it operates
    • UK and overseas, main operating location: City of Edinburgh
    Who it helps
    • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

    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 21/07/1969, number: SC011153
    Filing Record
    5 returns made; AR20: 59 days late,
    Main office

    South Leith Parish Church Halls, 6 Henderson Street, Edinburgh, EH6 6BS

    Objectives

    The objects of the Society are: to advance the education of the public about Christ's Church and to advance the Christian Religion and in furtherance thereof but not otherwise: 1. to foster interest in the history of liturgy. 2. to raise awareness of liturgical development in the world church. 3. to engage with the theology of worship as indispensable for the evaluation and interpretation of liturgies. 4. to study, discuss and explore contemporary forms employed in the practice of worship and in the creation and enhancing of the place of worship 5. to organise meetings, conferences and publications with a view to promoting these objects.

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator
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