Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 0
Support Score: 1
  • Deficit latest year: -2
  • No PartB
(no info on trustees)
    • Grant maker support: +1
    Overall GiG Score: -1 ?

    POLLOK BAPTIST CHURCH (SCIO) 

    Analysis by Giving is Great

    Positives:

    • The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
    • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation

    Financial issues to consider:

    • Income was lower than spending in the latest year
    Financial Data
    Income & Spending ?
    Period ending 31/03/20 31/03/21 31/03/22 31/03/23
    Total income £33,185 £105,391 £77,665 £62,819
    Total spending £37,100 £75,892 £73,168 £70,576
    Surplus/deficit -£3,915 £29,499 £4,497 -£7,757
    Established: 5 years
    Scottish Charity Regulator
    UN SDGs
    ?
    Listed activities
    • It carries out activities or services itself
    GiG Classification
    • Christian congregations
    Purposes
    • The advancement of religion
    • 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
    • The relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage
    Where it operates
    • Glasgow City
    • This charity is based in an area of high deprivation
    Who it helps
    • 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.

    Specific Donations
    Amount When
    Months
    To be used for
    Foundation Scotland - Grant to Pollok Baptist Church (SCIO)
    £2,000 21/10/2020
    23
    to contribute towards the cost of running a 'Food Outreach' programme.
    Foundation Scotland - Grant to Pollok Baptist Church (SCIO)
    £5,000 14/04/2020
    To support the growing scale of food deliveries to vulnerable households in the Pollock area over the next four months.
    Foundation Scotland - Grant to Pollok Baptist Church (SCIO)
    £1,000 26/03/2020
    To provide a delivery service, gathering food supplies and taking food/ household parcels to the homes of vulnerable people in Pollok.

    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 27/03/2019, number: SC049168
    • Notes: This charity was established to replace Pollok Baptist Church (SC016091). Pollok Baptist Church (SC016091) has now wound up and passed its assets and liabilities to Pollok Baptist Church (SCIO) (SC049168) which is a SCIO.
    Filing Record
    3 returns made; all on time
    Main office

    8 Dormanside Grove, Glasgow , G53 5YZ

    Objectives

    The Purposes are the advancement of religion, namely the Christian faith, primarily in Pollok, Glasgow and throughout Scotland and the rest of the World by all means consistent with: 4. 1. The Christian Bible. and 4.2. The Declaration of Principle. 4.3. including (without prejudice to the foregoing generality) worship, ministry, mission, witness, prayer, fellowship, networking, education, community service, the provision of activities and facilities for the community, and the relief of poverty and other social needs, including the support of individuals and other charitable organisations and agencies involved in any or all of these.

    Data Sources

    Scottish Charity Regulator
    360 Giving
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