Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 0
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: 1 ?

NORTH CONNEL HALL LIMITED 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Established: 41 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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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 £105,206 £6,463 £15,795 £10,822 £2,276 £5,766
Total spending £23,763 £9,674 £12,121 £9,217 £9,977 £10,500
Surplus/deficit £81,443 -£3,211 £3,674 £1,605 -£7,701 -£4,734
Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Purposes
  • The advancement of citizenship or community development
  • 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
Where it operates
  • Argyll And Bute
Who it helps
  • Children or young people
  • Older People
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community','Other charities or voluntary bodies

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Robertson Trust - The Refurbishment of North Connel Village Hall
£2,500 31/03/2019
The Refurbishment of North Connel Village Hall
Robertson Trust - The Refurbishment of North Connel Village Hall
£2,500 22/11/2016
The Refurbishment of North Connel Village Hall

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (6)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 47-71
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 17/06/1983, number: SC012508
  • Registered at Companies House on 23/11/2016, number: SC550986
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

Garden Cottage, North Connel, Ardchattan Priory, Oban, Argyll, PA37 1RQ

Objectives

The charitable purposes of the Company are the advancement of citizenship or community development, and the provision of recreational facilities, or the organization of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended. These are its charitable purposes for the purposes of section 7 of the 2005 Act. For as long as the Company is entered on the Scottish Charity Register, its purposes may only be altered with the prior consent of OSCR and in accordance with any conditions attached to such consent.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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