Overall GiG Score: -4 ?
Finance Score: -6
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 2
  • Spending declining: -1
  • Multiple Deficits and declines: -5
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • Grant maker support: +2

    FRIENDS OF PILRIG PARK SCHOOL 

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker

    Financial issues to consider:

    • Spending is declining
    • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
    Established: 6 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Financial Data
    Income & Spending ?
    Period ending 30/06/18 31/07/19 31/07/20 31/07/21 31/07/22 31/07/23
    Total income £17,187 £13,047 £15,606 £608 £6,347 £161
    Total spending £12,292 £8,833 £10,424 £1,066 £7,815 £6,354
    Surplus/deficit £4,895 £4,214 £5,182 -£458 -£1,468 -£6,193
    What it does
    • It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations
    • It carries out activities or services itself
    Who it helps
    • Children or young people
    • People with disabilities or health problems
    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
    • City of Edinburgh

    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.

    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Robertson Trust - The Music Therapy and Piping/Drumming Tuition Sessions
    £5,000 31/07/2019
    The Music Therapy and Piping/Drumming Tuition Sessions
    Robertson Trust - "Music for Life" - Music Therapy and Piping & Drumming Tuition
    £3,000 27/06/2018
    "Music for Life" - Music Therapy and Piping & Drumming Tuition

    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 24/10/2017, number: SC047854
    Filing Record
    5 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    Pilrig Park School, 12 Balfour Place, Edinburgh, EH6 5DW

    Objectives

    4 The organisation's purposes are: 4.1 The advancement of education. 4.2 The provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities.

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator
    360 Giving
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