Finance Score: -6
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 5
  • Spending declining: -1
  • Volatile income & significant deficit in latest year: -5
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +5
Overall GiG Score: 8 ?

OUR PLACE OUR FAMILIES (RENFREW) 

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • 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:

  • Spending is declining
  • Income has been volatile recently and was significantly lower than spending in the latest year
Established: 12 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 28/02/18 28/02/19 28/02/20 28/02/21 28/02/22 28/02/23
Total income £108,511 £129,006 £130,568 £123,119 £104,929 £33,960
Total spending £133,914 £96,403 £96,702 £92,847 £84,565 £73,120
Surplus/deficit -£25,403 £32,603 £33,866 £30,272 £20,364 -£39,160
Listed activities
  • It carries out activities or services itself
Purposes
  • The advancement of education
  • 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
Where it operates
  • Wider, but within one local authority area, main operating location: Renfrewshire
  • This charity is based in an area of extremely high deprivation
Who it helps
  • Older People
  • 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.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£119,825
Scottish Government£11,900
Garfield Weston Foundation£7,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£7,500 12/02/2021
Eat Better Feel Better Cooking Classes
Scottish Government - Our Place Our Families (Renfrew)
£9,000 18/05/2020
Detailed description not provided.
Scottish Government - Our Place Our Families
£2,900 17/04/2020
Detailed description not provided.
National Lottery Community Fund - Cafe OPOF
£119,825 12/07/2019
36
This group will deliver a twice weekly community café serving a range of hot and cold food. The café has been operating on a pilot basis from the Arkleston Community Centre, a venue that is run by ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Our Place Our Food
£10,000 11/10/2018
12
This charity will use funding to operate a community café for people at risk of isolation.
Robertson Trust - Running costs of Our Place Our Families
£45,000 12/06/2018
Running costs of Our Place Our Families
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Our Place Our Families (Renfrew)
£30,000 13/11/2017
36
This project will deliver a programme of sport and play activities for children facing many challenges in Renfrewshire. They will have fun and be active, improve self-belief, make friends from ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Best Foot Forward
£10,000 25/01/2017
12
Best Foot Forward
National Lottery Community Fund - Our Place Our Families (Renfrew)
£150,000 28/06/2016
36
This project will offer a range of services and activities to support families who are facing challenges and difficulties in their lives. It will focus on specific issues such as healthy living, ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Empowering Erskine
£10,000 19/05/2015
12
This group based in Renfrew will use the funding for a series of family fun days aimed at identifying and addressing the concerns of the community.
National Lottery Community Fund - Renfrew Our Place, Our Families
£226,555 09/11/2011
48
The 'Renfrew Our Place, Our Families' project will improve the health, well being and confidence of families living in Renfrew West. This will provide a variety of activities such as parent ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Family's Activity Events
£10,000 08/09/2011
12
This group will run a programme of fun-days in different areas of Renfrew for the benefit of families living in the town. The fun-days will cover of a range of sports and activities that will enable ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - Active Families
£18,000 02/02/2011
12
This grant will be used to develop the Moorpark Parents Support Group's Active Families project which aims to address health inequalities and improve mental health in the five neighbourhoods of ....more
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Directors (12)
Current Directors appointed
Gender Split

Age Range of Directors: 19-73
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 15/02/2012, number: SC042943
  • Registered at Companies House on 08/02/2012, number: SC416483
Filing Record
5 returns made; AR20: 62 days late,
Main office

234 Paisley Road , Renfrew, PA4 8AA

Objectives

The Charity is established solely for charitable purposes within the area of Renfrew and its environs, and in particularto promote the benefit of the inhabitants of the Renfrew area and environs without distinction of sex, sexual orientation, race or of political, religious or other opinions by associating together the said residents and the local authorities, voluntary and other organisations in a common effort to promote good health, to advance education, and to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and leisure time I occupation with the objective of improving the conditions of life for the said residents.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator
360 Giving
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