Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 3
Support Score: 0
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • No volunteer policy: -2
  • No conflicts policy: -1
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Large volunteers +5
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

FEDERATION OF OLD CORNWALL SOCIETIES

Aims to "gather up the fragments that remain", i.e. to record the remnants of Cornwall's past culture and heritage, preserve them where appropriate, revive and continue customs and traditions, educate regarding them via talks, publications, etc.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been very successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Although this charity works with volunteers it does not have a Volunteer Management policy
  • This charity does not have a Conflict of Interests policy
  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit £k
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/07/23£15£16£-1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/22£6£20£-13n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/21£7£4£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/20£136£8£128n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/19£12£9£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/18£5£4£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/17£12£9£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/16£12£13£-2n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/15£24£12£12n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/14£14£10£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/13£18£11£7n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/12£14£19£-5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/11£11£8£3n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/10*£10£9£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/09£11£7£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/08*£12£12£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/07*£10£10£0n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/06£11£7£4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/05*£7£11£-4n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/07/04£5£4£1n/an/an/an/an/an/a

Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 59 years

https://kernowgoth.org/

president@oldcornwall.net

07912892226

Charity Commission for England and WalesFacebook
UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • Arts/Culture/Heritage/Science
  • Education/Training
  • Environment/Conservation/Heritage
GiG Classification
  • Museums, parks, historical sites
How it operates
  • Other charitable activities
Where it operates
  • Cornwall,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

We have no records of donations from grant makers.

How is it governed?

Trustees (5)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • BERT MARTIN BISCOE Appointed: 2024
  • COLIN JAMES ROBERTS Appointed: 2024
  • KATHLEEN ELSIE TERESA WALLIS Appointed: 2024
  • NEVILLE RICHARD MEEK (Chair) Appointed: 2022
  • ROSALIND JANE HAYWARD Appointed: 2022
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 06/04/1966, number: 247283
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Investing charity funds policy and procedures
  • Investment
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
Filing Record
20 returns made; AR10: 31 days late, AR08: 59 days late, AR07: 1 days late, AR05: 1343 days late,
Main office

31 Gwarak Gwel An Mor
Portscatho
TRURO
Cornwall
TR2 5AF

Objectives

A) TO COLLECT, RECORD AND PUBLISH INFORMATION REGARDING CORNISH PREHISTORY, HISTORY, TOPOGRAPHY, PLACE-NAMES, FOLK-LORE, TRADITIONS, DIALECT, MUSIC, INDUSTRIES AND SIMILAR SUBJECTS. B) TO PROTECT THE NATURAL BEAUTY OF CORNWALL. C) TO ENCOURAGE THE STUDY AND USE OF THE CORNISH LANGUAGE. D) TO PRESERVE CORNISH ANTIQUITIES AND RELICS OF THE PAST.

Defined Area of Benefit:

COUNTY OF CORNWALL

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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