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

    COATS MEMORIAL PRESERVATION TRUST

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received modest backing from a grant maker

    Financial issues to consider:

    • Income has been volatile and on several occasions in recent years less than spending
    Financial Data
    Income & Spending ?
    Period ending 31/12/18 31/12/19 31/12/20 31/12/21 31/12/22 31/12/23
    Total income £0 £200,451 £426,545 £53,363 £9,782 £67,488
    Total spending £1,447 £95,083 £304,275 £175,482 £51,303 £52,122
    Surplus/deficit -£1,447 £105,368 £122,270 -£122,119 -£41,521 £15,366
    Established: 7 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • It carries out activities or services itself
    GiG Classification
    • Museums, parks, historical sites
    Purposes
    • The advancement of citizenship or community development
    • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science
    Where it operates
    • Renfrewshire
    Who it helps
    • No specific group, or for the benefit of the community

    Who supports them? ?

    Donations from Grant Makers ?

    We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    National Lottery Community Fund - A new future for Coats Memorial Church
    £9,825 12/12/2019
    2
    This group will use funding to host an event, upskill their volunteers and inform the wider community about the potential re-use of a local landmark.

    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 03/01/2018, number: SC048033
    Filing Record
    4 returns made; AR19: 16 days late, AR18: 47 days late,
    Main office

    27 Causeyside Street, Paisley, PA1 1UL

    Objectives

    The organisation's purposes are: 4.1 To protect, preserve, maintain, enhance and improve the building known as Thomas Coats Memorial Church, Paisley. 4.2 To utilise the building known as Thomas Coats Memorial Church, Paisley to promote heritage, education, culture and the arts for the benefit of the residents of Paisley and visitors to Paisley. and 4.3 To promote the heritable and cultural significance of the building known as Thomas Coats Memorial Church to a local, national and international audience.

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator
    360 Giving

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