Finance Score: 1
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 0
  • Reasonable growth: +1
  • No PartB
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • No supporters identified
Overall GiG Score: 7 ?

CORNERSTONE COMMUNITY CHURCH STIRLING

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There has been reasonable growth in spending over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition
Financial Data
Income & Spending ?
Period ending 31/08/17 31/08/18 31/08/19 31/08/20 31/08/21 31/08/22 31/08/23
Total income £109,337 £125,545 £135,868 £188,898 £172,413 £177,675 £229,009
Total spending £94,930 £111,935 £131,101 £184,215 £131,191 £153,187 £194,986
Surplus/deficit £14,407 £13,610 £4,767 £4,683 £41,222 £24,488 £34,023
Established: 12 years
Scottish Charity RegulatorCompanies House
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • It makes grants, donations, loans, gifts or pensions to individuals
  • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
GiG Classification
  • Christian congregations
Purposes
  • The advancement of religion
Where it operates
  • Stirling
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?

Directors (5)
Current Directors appointed

Age Range of Directors: 37-71
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in Scotland on 19/03/2013, number: SC043872
  • Notes: The charity changed its legal name from 'The Epaphroditus Trust' (03/2013 - 03/2022) to Cornerstone Community Church Stirling on 22/03/2022.
  • Registered at Companies House on 27/09/2012, number: SC433547
Filing Record
5 returns made; all on time
Main office

Cornerstone Community Church Offices, Castle Road, Stirling, FK9 5JB

Objectives

Purposes and Powers of the Church 2.1. The charitable purpose for which the Church is established as a legal entity is the advancement of the Christian religion in Scotland and elsewhere. 2.2. The Church will fulfil its charitable purpose by the maintenance in Stirling and the surrounding area of a body of Christian believers who adhere to the Basis of Faith and who engage in serving God through worship, discipling, pastoral care and outreach. 2.3. The Church shall be empowered to carry on any lawful activity in the pursuit of the purposes set out in Article 2.1. 2.4. The income and property of the Church 2.4.1. shall be applied solely towards promoting the Church’s objects. 2.4.2. shall not, except as provided in Article 17.3, be paid or transferred to any Guarantor or Elder. 2.4.3. shall, in the event of any surplus arising on winding up, be paid over to one or more bodies established for exclusively charitable purposes with objects similar to those of the Church.

Data Sources

Scottish Charity Regulator

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