Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 1
Support Score: 0
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
  • Only 3 Trustees: -2
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: 2 ?

ISLAND RETREATS LIMITED

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • There are only 3 trustees

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 30/11/18 30/11/19 30/11/20 30/11/21 30/11/22
Charitable activities £436,864 £413,382 £474,571
Donations & Legacies £41,329 £33,717
Other Income £4,005 £335
Investment Income £10,419 £13,514 £16,436
Total income £497,691 £469,504 £180,897 £241,942 £520,930
Charitable activities spending £557,212 £539,543 £593,511
Fundraising costs 1% 1% 1%
Other spending
Total spending £562,992 £544,623 £318,912 £261,984 £597,227
Surplus/deficit -£65,301 -£75,119 -£138,015 -£20,042 -£76,297
Established: 35 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • Other 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: Argyll And Bute
Who it helps
  • 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 (3)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 56-75
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 05/06/1989, number: SC023281
  • Registered at Companies House on 21/11/2001, number: SC225528
Filing Record
4 returns made; all on time
Main office

St Moluags Centre, PA34 5JJ

Objectives

(i)To promote, in accordance with the Canons, Resolutions and Constitution of the Scottish Episcopal Church, the advancement of religion, including through education, the provision of religous and spiritual renewal, and the provision of related services beneficial to the Community as a whole. (ii)To advance and promote the objects without the discrimination on grounds of race, sex, sexual orientation, religious beliefs or any disability. (iii) To do all things ancillary to the carrying out of the foregoing objects of the Company.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator

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