Overall GiG Score: -4 ?
Finance Score: -5
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • Grant maker support: +1

    COLINSBURGH TOWN HALL 

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from a grant maker

    Financial issues to consider:

    • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
    Established: 58 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Financial Data
    Income & Spending ?
    Period ending 31/12/17 31/12/18 31/12/19 31/12/20 31/12/21 31/12/22
    Total income £9,454 £17,291 £14,237 £44,293 £13,323 £4,301
    Total spending £5,181 £14,030 £6,331 £59,664 £9,227 £10,677
    Surplus/deficit £4,273 £3,261 £7,906 -£15,371 £4,096 -£6,376
    What it does
    • It carries out activities or services itself
    Who it helps
    • Children or young people
    • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
    • Other charities or voluntary bodies
    Purposes
    • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
    • The advancement of public participation in sport
    • The advancement of environmental protection or improvement','the advancement of animal welfare
    Where it operates
    • Fife

    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
    National Lottery Community Fund - Replacing our Windows
    £10,000 10/09/2018
    12
    This group will use the funding to improve their hall installing new windows.
    National Lottery Community Fund - Refurbishing Colinsburgh Town Hall
    £10,000 17/03/2011
    12
    The project will relocate the halls kitchen to the ground floor of the building, create a new meeting room on the upper floor and remodel the halls existing toilets. The grant will be used to pay for ....more

    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 06/01/1966, number: SC022455
    • Notes: This charity is in the process of being wound up and will transfer all its assets and liabilities to SC047627 - Colinsburgh Community Trust Ltd.
    Filing Record
    5 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    2 Main Street, Colinsburgh, Leven, Fife, KY9 1LN

    Objectives

    The said subjects and the building erected or to be erected thereon (hereinafter referred to as 'the Trust subjects') are dedicated and shall be held by us and our successors as Trustees in all time coming for the purposes of physical and mental training and recreation, and social, moral and intellectual development through the medium of reading and recreation rooms, library, lectures, classes, recreation or otherwise as may be found expedient of the inhabitants of the Village of Colinsburgh and the surrounding district in the County of Fife without distinction of sex or of political, religious or other opinions subject to the provisions of these presents.

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator
    360 Giving
    Authorised officials of this charity can add information to this page (including a Donate Now button) for no cost

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