Finance Score: -18
Governance Score: -3
Support Score: 0
  • Accounts overdue -5
  • Volatile income: -3
  • Dormant: -10
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
  • Return overdue: -3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: -21 ?

BIGGAR WRITERS GROUP 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Latest return is overdue

Financial issues to consider:

  • Latest accounts are overdue for filing
  • Income has been volatile recently
  • This charity appears to be dormant
Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/03/17 31/03/18 31/03/19
Total income £640 £435 £251
Total spending £432 £459 £300
Surplus/deficit £208 -£24 -£49
Established: 17 years
Scottish Charity Regulator
This Charity appears to be dormant
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
GiG Classification
  • Community services
Purposes
  • The advancement of education
  • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
Where it operates
  • South Lanarkshire
Who it helps
  • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

Who supports them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees

Sorry we have no information about the Trustees.

Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 27/09/2007, number: SC039762
Filing Record
3 returns made; AR18: 4 days late, AR17: 15 days late,
Main office

, EH46 7HH

Objectives

The charitable objects of the Group shall be the advancement of education and the advancement of the arts, heritage and culture of local writers and the wider community of Biggar, by promoting creative writing in Biggar and its environs, providing peer support to local writers and by contributing to the cultural life of the community

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
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