Finance Score: 3
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 12
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • Future income +5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • All female board: -3
  • Grant maker support: +12
Overall GiG Score: 18 ?

GLASGOW WOMENS LIBRARY LIMITED 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently and there are significant future grants due to be received
  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition
  • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is completely female

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
Established: 25 years
(26 years as a company)
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
Charitable activities £1,176,539 £605,184 £283,373 £1,186,246 £415,215
Donations & Legacies £41,680 £33,336 £38,952 £57,866
Other Income £53,667 £7,432 £19,051 £10,648
Investment Income £172 £1,554 £1,902 £8,817
Total income £1,266,045 £734,734 £367,596 £1,268,781 £633,455 £513,919
Charitable activities spending £630,348 £657,963 £713,693 £655,130 £749,708
Fundraising costs 1% 2% 6% 1% 1% 4%
Other spending
Total spending £649,295 £674,629 £735,215 £663,718 £716,641 £768,425
Surplus/deficit £616,750 £60,105 -£367,619 £605,063 -£83,186 -£254,506
Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Purposes
  • The prevention or relief of poverty
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
Where it operates
  • Operations cover all or most of Scotland, main operating location: Glasgow City
  • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation
Who it helps
  • Other defined groups
  • Other charities or voluntary bodies

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
National Lottery Heritage Fund£275,027
Paul Hamlyn Foundation£272,000
John Ellerman Foundation£81,423
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Paul Hamlyn Foundation - Implementing a community collecting approach
£272,000 17/07/2023
Glasgow Women's Library (GWL) is the only Accredited Museum in the UK celebrating women’s lives, histories and achievements with a library, archive and innovative events and learning programme. ....more
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Glasgow Women's Library
£198,227 28/10/2021
Three Decades of Changing Minds
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Glasgow Women's Library
£76,800 02/09/2020
COVID19: Glasgow Women's Library
John Ellerman Foundation - Salary Costs for a Development Worker: Curating, Programming, Partnership and Participation and associated Project Costs.
£81,423 21/05/2020
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Salary Costs for a Development Worker: Curating, Programming, Partnership and Participation and associated Project Costs.
Glasgow City Council - Glasgow Women's Library: ALN Project
£45,315 21/03/2019
Delivers literacies learning for women from across the city including vulnerable, working age, BME women and asylum seekers and refugees. Works with a range of partners to engage and progress the ....more
Glasgow City Council - GWL - Librarian Services and Resources
£29,000 21/03/2019
To fund the sole librarian. The post supports the other projects based at GWL and provides direct support to learners and service users.
Glasgow City Council - Lifelong Learning
£80,919 21/03/2019
This initiative provides dedicated, specialised learning programmes, events and activities to women across Glasgow including (and targeted at) women in priority groups.
Glasgow City Council - Lesbian (LGBT) Services and Resources
£6,176 28/02/2019
To provide unique specialised resources and expertise to lesbian and bisexual women in Glasgow in a safe welcoming environment.
Glasgow City Council - Lifelong Learning
£80,919 31/05/2018
This initiative provides dedicated, specialised learning programmes, events and activities to women across Glasgow including (and targeted at) women in priority groups.
Glasgow City Council - Glasgow Women's Library: ALN Project
£45,315 31/05/2018
Delivers literacies learning for women from across the city including vulnerable, working age, BME women and asylum seekers and refugees. Works with a range of partners to engage and progress the ....more
Glasgow City Council - GWL - Librarian Services and Resources
£29,000 31/05/2018
To fund the sole librarian. The post supports the other projects based at GWL and provides direct support to learners and service users.
Glasgow City Council - Lesbian (LGBT) Services and Resources
£6,176 31/05/2018
To provide unique specialised resources and expertise to lesbian and bisexual women in Glasgow in a safe welcoming environment.
Wolfson Foundation - Grant to Glasgow Women's Library
£10,000 04/12/2017
Towards displaying the permanent collection
Robertson Trust - The costs of the Volunteer Programme
£51,000 19/09/2017
The costs of the Volunteer Programme
Robertson Trust - the capital costs of The Learning Hub.
£90,000 31/10/2015
the capital costs of The Learning Hub.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Glasgow Women's Library
£10,000 22/10/2013
Glasgow Women's Library Makes Friends: Supporting and Sustaining a National Treasure
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Glasgow Women's Library
£10,000 07/10/2013
(No Title)
National Lottery Community Fund - Read, Relax- Recharge
£10,000 14/08/2013
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The group will hire a bibliotherapist in order to engage women experiencing social isolation to engage in group reading sessions.
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Glasgow Women's Library
£96,400 13/06/2013
36
towards three years' salary of the Volunteer Co-ordinator at a volunteering project in a deprived area of Glasgow
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (6)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split
Based on 5/6 persons

Age Range of Directors: 33-53
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 14/10/1999, number: SC029881
  • Registered at Companies House on 03/09/1997, number: SC178507
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, G40 1BP

Objectives

The objects for which the Company is established are the advancement of education and the relief of poverty of women who are often thus affected because of the discrimination they are subjected to

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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