Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 2
Support Score: 1
  • Multiple Deficits: -2
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Mainly male board: -1
  • Grant maker support: +1
Overall GiG Score: 1 ?

KILLEARN COMMUNITY FUTURES COMPANY 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • The Board is predominantly male

Financial issues to consider:

  • On several occasions in recent years income has been less than spending
Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/07/18 31/07/19 31/07/20 31/07/21 31/07/22 31/07/23
Total income £126,592 £154,124 £115,976 £112,226 £124,945 £137,216
Total spending £120,434 £152,256 £142,733 £133,251 £118,528 £152,548
Surplus/deficit £6,158 £1,868 -£26,757 -£21,025 £6,417 -£15,332
Established: 21 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • Community services
Purposes
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of citizenship or community development
  • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science','the advancement of public participation in sport','the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended','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','any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the preceding purposes
Where it operates
  • Stirling
Who it helps
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

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
Co-Operative Group - Grant to Killearn Community Futures
£1,523 23/10/2021
Our plan is to buy extra protection equipment to keep our cyclists safe and allow more vulnerable people to use our E-bike Loan scheme.
National Lottery Heritage Fund - Grant to Killearn Community Futures Company
£23,000 25/02/2019
The Killearn Heritage Trail

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (11)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 35-88
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 25/07/2003, number: SC035472
  • Registered at Companies House on 25/07/2003, number: SC253299
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

Flat 73 Whittinghame Court, 1300 Great Western Road, Glasgow, G12 0BH

Objectives

To provide recreational facilities available to the public at large within the Community Council area of Killearn, Stirlingshire, so far as lying within the boundaries shown coloured red on the plan annexed to the memorandum of association (deemed to form part of the articles of association) ('the Operating Area') with a view to improving their conditions of life. to advance environmental protection and improvement in and around 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 doing so, 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. to promote, establish and operate other schemes of a charitable nature for the benefit of the community within the Operating Area.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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