Overall GiG Score: 2 ?
Finance Score: -6
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 8
  • Spending falling: -1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • Grant maker support: +8

    FAITH IN COMMUNITY SCOTLAND 

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently

    Financial issues to consider:

    • Spending has fallen significantly over the last 5 years relative to the previous period
    • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
    Established: 19 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    UN SDGs
    ?
    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
    Donations & Legacies £953,764 £793,917 £580,152 £616,946
    Other Income £22,053 £5,000
    Investment Income £942 £6,276 £15,033 £8,348 £5,422
    Total income £954,706 £800,193 £595,185 £647,347 £349,327 £281,541
    Charitable activities spending £965,947 £825,084 £694,398 £819,704 £291,215
    Fundraising costs
    Other spending £349 £376 £480 £1,010
    Total spending £966,296 £825,460 £694,878 £820,714 £295,028 £291,215
    Surplus/deficit -£11,590 -£25,267 -£99,693 -£173,367 £54,299 -£9,674
    What it does
    • It carries out activities or services itself
    Who it helps
    • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community
    • Other charities or voluntary bodies
    Purposes
    • The prevention or relief of poverty
    • The advancement of citizenship or community development
    • The promotion of religious or racial harmony
    Where it operates
    • Operations cover all or most of Scotland, main operating location: Glasgow City

    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
    William Grant Foundation£100,000
    National Lottery Community Fund£45,000
    Dulverton Trust£30,000
    Rank Foundation£22,000
    Scottish Government£10,374
    Alex Ferry Foundation£5,000
    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    William Grant Foundation - Faithful Welcome
    £35,000 06/12/2022
    Unrestricted funding to support this organisation working alongside faith groups across Scotland to tackle poverty and need in their communities. The grant is made in response to its plans to ....more
    Dulverton Trust - Shaping the Future Together - supporting local responses to COVID19
    £30,000 10/02/2021
    Shaping the Future Together - supporting local responses to COVID19
    Rank Foundation - Resilience Fund Faith in Community Dundee 2020
    £22,000 30/06/2020
    To cover lost income
    National Lottery Community Fund - COVID-19 Shaping the future together
    £45,000 26/06/2020
    11
    This group will use the funding to support a network of faith groups/community anchor organisations engaged with vulnerable people adversely affected by COVID-19. The network will consist of 20 ....more
    William Grant Foundation - Shaping the Future Together
    £25,000 11/06/2020
    18
    A programme of funding and support to approx. 20 faith groups across Scotland to assist them to work within their communities to enable people to be better supported, connected and resilient during ....more
    Scottish Government - Faith In Community (Scotland)
    £10,374 22/05/2020
    Detailed description not provided.
    Alex Ferry Foundation - AFF communuity grant
    £5,000 21/05/2020
    community grant
    William Grant Foundation - Coronavirus Rapid Response Fund
    £40,000 25/03/2020
    6
    To be redistributed as small grants to faith organisations across Scotland supporting people in their communities affected by the coronavirus Covid-19 crisis.
    Glasgow City Council - Community Development Team
    £125,664 21/03/2019
    A multi-disciplinary team working through faith communities to close the opportunity gap for people living in Glasgow's poorest neighbourhoods.
    Glasgow City Council - Community Development Team
    £125,664 31/05/2018
    A multi-disciplinary team working through faith communities to close the opportunity gap for people living in Glasgow's poorest neighbourhoods.
    Comic Relief - Nothing about us, Without us, Is for us - seats at the table
    £100,000 27/01/2016
    36
    Faith in Community Scotland hosts the Poverty Truth Commission (PTC); a movement whose key aim is to ensure that those directly affected by poverty are in the room, and around the table with policy ....more
    National Lottery Community Fund - Faith in Throughcare
    £901,471 25/06/2014
    60
    Not Available
    National Lottery Community Fund - Tackling Poverty Together
    £236,171 14/02/2014
    24
    Tackling Poverty Together
    Esmee Fairbairn - Grant to Faith in Community Scotland
    £66,662 10/09/2008
    36
    Towards Project costs Towards the salary of the community profiler to equip people from deprived areas to develop and analyse qualitative and quantitative data and to use it to drive community ....more
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    Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

    How is it governed?

    Trustees

    Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

    Legal constitution
    • Charity registered in Scotland on 16/08/2005, number: SC036787
    • Notes: This SCIO was incorporated on 13 December 2022 as a result of the conversion of a charitable company (SC288937).
    Filing Record
    5 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    200 Balmore Road, Glasgow, G22 6LJ

    Objectives

    4.1 To prevent and relieve poverty. 4.2 To advance citizenship and community development. 4.3 To promote religious and racial harmony.

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator
    360 Giving
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