Finance Score: 0

Governance Score: -8

Support Score: 1

Strong growth: +2
Multiple Deficits: -2
No PartB

Narrow trustee age band: -2
Static board: -3
All male board: -3

Grant maker support: +1

Overall GiG Score: -7

BIGGAR & DISTRICT COMMUNITY HERITAGE LIMITED

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

The Board is completely male
The Board composition appears to be rather static and has little diversity in terms of age

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
Total income	£858	£160	£160	£1,060	£8,367	£1,597
Total spending	£914	£515	£1,641	£1,215	£1,672	£9,996
Surplus/deficit	-£56	-£355	-£1,481	-£155	£6,695	-£8,399

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Established: 19 years

www.biggarheritage.org.uk

Listed activities

It carries out activities or services itself

GiG Classification

Museums, parks, historical sites

Purposes

The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science

Where it operates

More than one local authority area in Scotland, main operating location: South Lanarkshire

Who it helps

No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Who supports 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
Foundation Scotland - Bizzieberry Hill.
£7,967	24/06/2021 17	To upgrade, repair and renovate to improve the accessibility of the public path network for both residents and visitors to Bizzieberry Hill.

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (5)

Current Directors appointed

Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 60-77

CHAD, Michael Andrew
Appointed: 2007
Occupation: Consultant

CHALMERS, David James
Appointed: 2018
Occupation: Manager

GOLDIE, Andrew, Dr
Appointed: 2006
Occupation: General Medical Practitioner

KERR, Ralph Graeme
Appointed: 2006
Occupation: Architect

MUIR, William Alan Malcolm
Appointed: 2018
Occupation: Manager

Legal constitution

Charity registered in Scotland on 18/03/2005, number: SC036413
Registered at Companies House on 18/03/2005, number: SC281826

Filing Record

5 returns made; all on time

Main office

, ML12 6DU

Objectives

The preservation, restoration and improvement of the environment in and around the Operating Area through the provision, maintenance and/or the improvement of public open space and other public amenities and other environmental and townscape regeneration projects, and on the basis that in doing so, the Company shall 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 landlords) 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. The promotion, for the public benefit, of the preservation (whether wholly or in part) of buildings and other structures of historic and/or environmental significance within the Operating Area. To promote the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment. To promote the conservation of the physical and natural environment by promoting biological diversity. To provide, in the interests of social welfare, for the inhabitants of the Operating Area, facilities for recreational or other leisure-time occupation with a view to improving the aforesaid persons' conditions of life. To stimulate public interest and education, both national and international, in the objects of the Company by means of exhibitions, lectures, publishing of books and pamphlets, supporting research work and by the provision of resources to promote these ends.

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