Overall GiG Score: 6 ?
Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 5
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • Grant maker support: +5

     

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
    • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period, despite a decline more recently
    • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
    Established: 32 years
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Financial Data
    Income & Spending ?
    Period
    ending
    Income Spending Surplus/
    Deficit
    Fundraising
    Cost
    Assets Employees Volunteers
    31/03/22 £129,140 £111,322 £17,818 £0
    31/03/21 £108,487 £90,610 £17,877
    31/03/20 £76,672 £76,870 -£198
    31/03/19 £100,490 £102,376 -£1,886
    31/05/18 £105,859 £77,441 £28,418
    31/05/17 £66,446 £53,194 £13,252
    What it does

      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.

      Major supporters in last 5 years
      Garfield Weston Foundation£30,000
      Foundation Scotland£11,365
      National Lottery Community Fund£9,840
      Trusthouse Charitable Foundation£9,399
      Scottish Government£5,400
      Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations£5,276
      DCMS£2,800
      Specific Donations
      Amount When
      Months
      To be used for
      Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award - COVID19 response
      £15,000 01/07/2022
      Castlemilk Community Church Furniture Project
      Garfield Weston Foundation - Multi-Year Grant (2 Years) award
      £15,000 16/07/2021
      Castlemilk Community Church Furniture Project
      National Lottery Community Fund - Settling in in Glasgow south
      £9,840 21/06/2021
      This group will deliver a range of services for asylum seekers in the Linn Ward area of Glasgow.
      Trusthouse Charitable Foundation - Grant to Castlemilk Baptist Church
      £9,399 21/01/2021
      15% as salary costs for an organisation offering a free furniture service to people coming out of homelessness in Glasgow.
      Foundation Scotland - Grant to Castlemilk Baptist Church
      £4,565 13/01/2021
      To fund a Help Line and an increased level of furniture deliveries in Glasgow until the end of March 2021.
      Foundation Scotland - Grant to Castlemilk Baptist Church
      £2,000 10/11/2020
      to contribute towards the costs of household goods for people coming out of homelessness.
      DCMS - VSCE CMC Fund
      £2,800 26/08/2020
      NET, Comic Relief and Children in Need will use this funding to provide: increased support to vulnerable people and hidden groups, thus reducing the burden on public services; reach local grassroots ....more
      Foundation Scotland - Grant to Castlemilk Baptist Church
      £2,800 26/08/2020
      To maintain a helpline and a range of services for local people in need, including asylum seekers and people emerging from homelessness.
      Scottish Government - Castlemilk Baptist Church
      £5,400 12/05/2020
      Detailed description not provided.
      Foundation Scotland - Grant to Castlemilk Baptist Church
      £2,000 06/05/2020
      To contribute towards the cost of continuing to run the Help Line set up to support vulnerable people including refugees and asylum seekers when Castlemilk Baptist Church had to close their usual ....more
      Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations - Castlemily Community Church Furniture Project
      £5,276 13/12/2019
      Our Furniture Project provides help entirely freely to individuals and families in particular need of help to set up a first tenancy. These may be people newly granted refugee status, young mothers ....more
      Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
      £10,000 07/03/2019
      Castlemilk Community Church Furniture Project
      Garfield Weston Foundation - WAF award
      £31,000 05/10/2018
      New Ford Transit Van, and repair of van loading area
      Robertson Trust - Castlemilk Community Church Furniture Service
      £30,000 09/03/2018
      Castlemilk Community Church Furniture Service
      Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations - Castlemilk International
      £4,610 10/11/2017
      The Castlemilk Community Church Furniture Project started 5 years ago as a small group of 5 volunteers helping two families a week with a borrowed van. Last year we helped over 200 families; we now ....more
      Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations - Castlemilk Community Church Furniture Ministry Volunteer Training Programme
      £4,198 02/12/2016
      We have the privilege of helping people coming out of homelessness at a key point in their lives where they are, at last, able to settle into decent accommodation and look to the future. Our service ....more
      Robertson Trust - Castlemilk Community Church Furniture Service
      £15,000 31/08/2016
      Castlemilk Community Church Furniture Service
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      Legal constitution
      Filing Record
      5 returns made; all on time

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