Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 0
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • Fundraising costs low: +3
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

INVERCLYDE LEISURE 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • Fundraising costs are unusually low relative to funds raised
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition
  • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
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 £5,052,246 £5,222,945 £5,296,474 £1,149,514 £4,967,206
Donations & Legacies £61,435 £56,300 £93,907 £3,145,642
Other Income £1,353,895 £1,265,615 £1,107,936 £1,001,667 £1,004,452
Investment Income
Total income £6,743,520 £6,895,171 £6,906,809 £5,315,232 £6,926,878 £7,574,016
Charitable activities spending £6,909,085 £7,440,981 £7,399,542 £5,991,724 £8,042,377
Fundraising costs 3% 3% 4% 1% 3% 3%
Other spending
Total spending £7,077,205 £7,623,650 £7,613,936 £6,023,543 £7,793,136 £8,257,208
Surplus/deficit -£333,685 -£728,479 -£707,127 -£708,311 -£866,258 -£683,192
Established: 23 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • Sports activities
Purposes
  • The advancement of health
  • The advancement of public participation in sport
Where it operates
  • Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: Inverclyde
  • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation
Who it helps
  • Children or young people
  • Older People
  • People with disabilities or health problems','No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Who's supporting them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Directors (9)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 24-72
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 14/09/2001, number: SC032161
  • Registered at Companies House on 14/09/2001, number: SC223197
Filing Record
5 returns made; AR20: 58 days late,
Main office

Waterfront Leisure Complex, Custom House, Greenock, PA15 1EW

Objectives

(a) To provide or assist in the provision of facilities for recreational, sporting, cultural or social activities (such facilities being provided from time to time being hereinafter referred to as 'the Facilities') for the general public in, or in connection with, the Local Authority area of Inverclyde as defined in Schedule 1 to the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994 (such Local Authority area being referred hereafter to as 'Inverclyde') and other parts of Scotland in the interests of social welfare and education. and (b) to encourage and promote for the purposes of social welfare, information on nutrition, health matters and exercise as will promote a healthy lifestyle for all.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
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