Overall GiG Score: -7 ?
Finance Score: -3
Governance Score: -7
Support Score: 3
  • Strong growth: +2
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
  • Narrow trustee age band: -2
  • Very static board: -5
  • Grant maker support: +3

KILLIN COMMUNITY BUS COMPANY 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board composition appears to be very static and has little diversity in terms of age

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Established: 25 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 £6,258 £4,469 £28,951 £4,038 £2,087 £2,933
Total spending £4,415 £3,233 £3,918 £3,584 £7,351 £7,163
Surplus/deficit £1,843 £1,236 £25,033 £454 -£5,264 -£4,230
What it does
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Who it helps
  • Other defined groups
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
Purposes
  • The advancement of citizenship or community development
  • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
  • The advancement of public participation in sport','the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage','any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes
Where it operates
  • Stirling

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
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Killin Community Bus
£15,000 03/09/2019
purchase of a minibus for a charity which works with older people in Perthshire
Robertson Trust - The New Community Minibus
£7,500 31/07/2019
The New Community Minibus

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (3)
Current Directors appointed

Age Range of Directors: 66-77
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 23/06/1999, number: SC029128
  • Registered at Companies House on 23/06/1999, number: SC197473
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

The Coach House, Lochay Rd, Killin, Stirlingshire, FK21 8TN

Objectives

To promote the benefit of the community of Killin and the surrounding area by operating transport services to assist the work of organisations engaged in the relief of poverty, sickness and the disabilities of old age, the provision of facilities for recreation and other leisure time occupation within the meaning of Section 1 of the Recreational Charities Act 1958 or any other charitable purpose so that the conditions of life of the inhabitants of the community may be improved.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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