Finance Score: -9
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 4
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Volatile income: -3
  • Fundraising costs high: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 1 ?

COACH HOUSE TRUST 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender

Financial issues to consider:

  • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
  • Income has been volatile recently
  • Fundraising costs are extremely high relative to funds raised
Established: 26 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/12/17 31/12/18 31/12/19 31/12/20 31/12/21 31/12/22
Charitable activities £143,140 £94,303 £40,001 £29,895
Donations & Legacies £157,047 £154,753 £150,814
Other Income £6,733
Investment Income
Total income £876,220 £755,283 £562,238 £518,383 £524,843 £523,646
Charitable activities spending £362,758 £324,541 £224,256 £216,420
Fundraising costs 50% 55% 35% 48% 40% 55%
Other spending
Total spending £930,716 £777,191 £519,045 £471,820 £479,801 £506,794
Surplus/deficit -£54,496 -£21,908 £43,193 £46,563 £45,042 £16,852
Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Purposes
  • The prevention or relief of poverty
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of health','the advancement of environmental protection or improvement','the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
Where it operates
  • Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: Glasgow City
Who it helps
  • People with disabilities or health problems

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
Scottish Government - The Coach House Trust
£18,557 10/06/2020
Detailed description not provided.
Scottish Government - The Coach House Trust
£20,058 20/05/2020
Detailed description not provided.
Glasgow City Council - Alderman Road Community Garden Centre Project
£45,601 15/03/2019
A learning and skills development project undertaking training and volunteering opportunities in horticulture, hard and soft landscaping, recycling and retail to assist people with multiple barriers ....more
Robertson Trust - The Skills for Inclusion Programme
£54,000 12/06/2018
The Skills for Inclusion Programme
Glasgow City Council - Alderman Road Community Garden Centre Project
£45,601 07/06/2018
A learning and skills development project undertaking training and volunteering opportunities in horticulture, hard and soft landscaping, recycling and retail to assist people with multiple barriers ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Transitions to Inclusion 2011
£483,310 11/05/2011
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The project will support people with multiple barriers helping them move into volunteering, training, education or employment. The project will engage with clients mainly from the north and west of ....more

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (5)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 42-65
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 24/08/1998, number: SC028182
  • Registered at Companies House on 24/08/1998, number: SC188703
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

The Coach House Trust, 84 Belmont Lane, Kelvinbridge, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, G12 8EN

Objectives

(a) To promote the welfare of persons in Glasgow and its environs who are either disabled or have had long term mental health or addiction problems by encouraging their re-integration into the community both through formal and informal training and education (b) To relieve the poverty and distress of the aforesaid persons by aiding them to advance into employment and by pursuing any other objects for the benefit of such persons which are now or hereafter may be deemed to be charitable in law (c) To preserve, restore and improve the environment in any part of Scotland ('the Operating Area') through the provision, maintenance and/or improvement of public open space and other public amenities and other environmental and townscape regeneration projects, and in so doing, to seek wherever appropriate (but subject to appropriate safeguards to ensure that the public benefit so arising clearly outweighs any private benefit thereby conferred on private landowners) to carry out works of reclamation, remediation, restoration and other operations to facilitate the use for those purposes of land whose use has been prevented or restricted because of previous use (d) To provide within the Operating Area facilities for recreation and other leisure time occupation available to the public at large with a view to improving their conditions of life (e) To promote for the public benefit the preservation (whether wholly or in part) of buildings and other structures of historic and/or architectural significance located within the Operation Area

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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